ELP Associate Professor Shalanda H. Baker is a 2016-2017 Fulbright-García Robles Scholar, based in Mérida, Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico, as well as in Mexico City.  Professor Baker’s Fulbright research focuses on the energy reform passed in Mexico in 2014 and its impacts on indigenous communities.  Mexico’s historic 2014 energy reform opened Mexico’s energy and electricity market to private participation for the first time since nationalization of the country’s energy resources over 75 years ago.  Professor Baker is an internationally-renowned expert in renewable energy and indigenous rights. Her publications related to Mexican energy issues include:

Mexican Energy Reform, Climate Change, and Energy Justice in Indigenous Communities, 56 Natural Resources Journal 369 (2016).

Project Finance and Sustainable Development in the Global South, in International Environmental Law: Perspectives from the Global South (Shawkat Alam et al. eds., Cambridge University Press, Spring 2015).

Why the IFC’s Free, Prior, and Informed Consent Policy Doesn’t Matter (Yet) to Indigenous Communities Affected by Development Projects, 30 Wis. Int’l L.J. 668 (2012).

Unmasking Project Finance: Risk Mitigation, Risk Inducement, and an Invitation to Development Disaster?, 6 Texas J. Oil, Gas, & Energy Law 273 (Spring 2011).

Professor Baker also is the founder and Director of the William S. Richardson Energy Justice Program.  For more information about the program, please visit UH Mānoa Energy Justice Program.