Dr Peter Doran is a senior lecturer at the School of Law at Queens University Belfast, and a senior editor/writer with the International Institute for Sustainable Development’s Earth Negotiations Bulletin. An activist-academic, Dr Doran has played a prominent role in advocating for a constitutional referendum in the Republic of Ireland on incorporating the Rights of Nature. He has research interests in ecology, law and the commons and is the author of A Political Economy of Attention, Mindfulness and Consumerism - Reclaiming the Mindful Commons (2017).