Giedre joined the School of Law at the University of Glasgow in September 2018. Prior to this, she was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate on the AHRC-funded project 'Constructing Authority in International Law' at Durham Law School. She completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2016. Before joining academia in the UK, she worked as a civil society advocate in Lithuania, Ukraine, Cameroon and Germany. In 2019 Giedre was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Rosario (Botoga, Colombia), and a visiting Teaching Fellow at the University of KIMEP (Almaty, Kazakhstan).

Her current research focuses on the link between bottom-up resistance, international law and sustainable development.  Since 2020, she is a Principle Investigator on the AHRC/DFG-funded research project 'The Law of Protracted Conflict: Understanding Humanitarian-Development Divide' (Endless Conflicts).

Giedre’s most recent research has been on the concept of ‘affected people’ and how this new paradigm of global governance is used by financial institutions and grassroot organisations in the context of development interventions. 

Starting February 2020, Giedre is a Principal Investigator on the AHRC/DFG-funded research project 'The Law of Protracted Conflict: Understanding Humanitarian-Development Divide' (Endless Conflicts), together with Asli Olcay (Co-I) (Glasgow), conducted in partnership with FU Berlin. Giedre will focus on the issues of accountability that arise at the intersction of development and humanitarian legal regimes, conducting research and knowledge exchange activities in Colombia, DRC, and the UN Headquarters in Geneva.

Giedre also has ongoing research projects on:

- a possibility of stakeholder engagement in development projects through mediation (with Catherine Turner, University of Durham)

- a role of law in grassroots resistance to development projects in Latin America (with Johanna Cortes Nieto, Unversity of Rosario)

- a link between land rights and environmental impact assessment (with Justine Bendel, University of Exeter).

From a theoretical perspective, Giedre is interested in the topics related to global distributive justice, alternative epistomologies, private ordering and responsibility; and normativity (particularly the distinction between legal and other normative orders). 

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11.11.11 (a coalition of NGOs in Belgium) (2020-2021) -  Consultant, part of the consortium of researchers preparing a study on the Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries (BIO), 23 000 EUR 

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and DFG (German Research Foundation) (2020-2023) - Co-I on the project 'The Law of Protracted Conflict: Understanding Humanitarian-Development Divide', 385 000 GBP (UK part) 

Glasgow Unviersity Knowledge Exchange Fund (GKE) (2018-2019) - grant to support knowledge exchange workshop on the role of mediation in development finance, 6500 GBP

Economic and Social Sciences Research Council (ESRC) Impact Acceleration Scheme (2017-2018) – grant to support the dissemination of my doctoral research findings, 1000 GBP

Durham University School of Law Research and Internationalisation Fund and Global Policy Institute Research Fund (2017) – grant to support the publication of a special issue on the World Bank safeguards (collaborative workshop) 4500 GBP

NYU Law School, Global Administrative Law project (2014) – grant to support participation in GAL Viterbo Seminar X, 500 GBP

Edinburgh Law School Community Scheme (2013) – study grant, 2000 GBP

Baltic-American Partnership Fund (Soros Foundation), ‘NGO legal framework in Lithuania: issues and roadmap for improvement’ (2006-2008) – research grant, 80 000 USD

I would be interested in the doctoral research projects that explore the theoretical underpinnings of international and/or transnational law; local resistance strategies to global governance; legal strategies of resistance against development and moderinisation; the negotiation, regulation and implementation of international agreements (especially investor-state contracts); climate finance (including 'blue' finance) and also other topics that engage with relationship between environment, development and foreign investment from a legal perspective. At the moment my capacity to accept new PhD proposals is very limited, but I'd be eager to engage with you and in some instances might be able to give some feedback on the promising research ideas.

PhD projects currently under supervision:

• Moeti, Onthatile, 'The Impact of the Modern Development Agenda on the Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Botswana: The Case of the San'
• Rungthongkhamkul, Sathien, 'Crafting Access to Civil Justice in Thailand : Strengthening Civil Remedy Framework in Responding to Business-Related Human Rights Abuse by Transnational Corporations'
• Ronoh, Viola, 'PSNR: Limitations of the Current Land Laws in Kenya'
• Stuehlinger, Susanne, 'Allocating Responsibility in Climate Change Cases: Normative Aspects of Causality'
• Wang, Xi, 'The Improvement of the ISDS System from the Perspective of Foreign Investment Transition Countries: Analysis Based on the China’s Implementation of the “The Belt and Road Initiative”'

• Rungthongkhamkul, Sathien
  Towards A Balancing Framework in Business and Human Rights Disputes
• Stewart, Calum
  The Climate Emergency and Landownership in Scotland

Current:

• Globalisation, Justice and Human Rights (LLB)
• Law and International Development (LLM)
• Climate Change Law and Governance (LLM)

Previous:

• UN Law (LLB and LLM)
• Advanced International Law (LLB)
• Environmental law (LLB)
• Public International Law  (LLB)
• Fundamentals of International Law (MSc)

Together with Antonio Marzal and Akbar Rasulov, Giedre is running the 'Transnational Accountability Project', an off-curriculum project for students at Glasgow Law School that aims to support the campaign of two civil society organisations, Human Rights Education and Monitoring Centre (EMC) and Green Alternative, in their campaign against unsustainable hydropower production projects in Georgia. Visit Glasgow Centre for International Law and Security website for more details on the project.

Giedre is the Impact Officer of the Law School.