Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde is Professor of Law and Economics at Paris-Panthéon-Assas University and at the Faculty of Law, University of Haifa, and a member of the Institut Jean-Nicod (CNRS–ENS–EHESS). His work addresses environmental law and global governance, with a particular focus on the legal status and representation of nature, global commons, and the responsibilities of public and private actors across jurisdictions. He leads the legal and economic research on marine biodiversity within the EU-funded BIOcean5D programme and has recently published on ecosystem services and intellectual property, global governance of digital sequence information, and the legal representation of ecological systems.