Nathalie Chalifour is a specialist in environmental and international law. In 2003, she joined the faculty of the Common Law Section in the French Program. Professor Chalifour’s research is concentrated mainly in the field of domestic and international environmental law. She has researched and written extensively on the issues of international trade and environment, ecological fiscal reform, biodiversity conservation and brownfields redevelopment.
Professor Chalifour has edited and authored several books, book chapters and articles. She is co-editor of the book Sustainable Land Use – A Global Survey of Experience, published by Cambridge University Press in 2006. She is also co-editor of the LexisNexis looseleaf The Canadian Brownfields Manual, an interdisciplinary book on the redevelopment of contaminated sites in Canada. Nathalie has published several book chapters and articles on environmental taxation, sustainable forestry and the effects of trade liberalization on biodiversity conservation.
Before joining the University of Ottawa Law Faculty, Professor Chalifour was Senior Advisor to the President and CEO of the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, an independent federal government organization with a mandate to promote sustainable development in Canada. She also served as a senior policy advisor for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) where she worked on tiger conservation, sustainable forestry, financing conservation and was responsible for developing policies on the World Trade Organization and the Free Trade Area of the Americas. She set up the Canadian office of Traffic North America, a joint program of WWF and The World Conservation Union (IUCN) responsible for implementing CITES (the Convention on the International Trade of Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna).
Professor Chalifour taught International Environmental Law and Comparative Natural Resources Law at the University of Nairobi in Kenya. She was also Director of the International Law Institute at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, a program run by Widener University.
Professor Chalifour obtained her Doctor of Law at Stanford University. She also holds a Master in Juridical Sciences which she obtained as a Stanford Program in International Legal Studies Fellow and Fullbright scholar. She presently teaches Property, Environmental Law and International Environmental Law.
