Fia Hamid-Walker

About/Bio

Fia Hamid-Walker is a PhD candidate in Disaster Jurisprudence, Postcolonial and Critical Theory at Melbourne Law School, Australia and a transnational legal advisor. Her current research develops a theory of disaster jurisprudence, interrogating the legal, historical, and political assumptions that shape disaster governance and responses, particularly in postcolonial contexts.

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From Act of God to Act of Law: Rethinking Natural Hazards Disaster through the ICJ’s Climate Change Advisory Opinion

On 23 July 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a landmark Advisory Opinion on the obligation of States in respect of climate change. Nowhere in the text does the Court meaningfully engage with the concept of “disaster.” Although the Court engages the term three times across more than 450 paragraphs (¶328, 376, 383), none of…

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