· SCOTTISH SOLICITORS
· NOTARY PUBLIC
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Strategic Legal Counsel · Environment & Human Rights
Scottish Law Firm · International Reach
For a Living Planet. EST. 2012.
Law for a world in transition
Strategic legal counsel for systemic transition — we help boards, governments, investors, institutions, and civil society navigate complexity, strengthen foresight and resilience, and shape enduring outcomes — For People, For Planet, For Prosperity.
Member @LawScot · Environmental Law Expert @UNHwN (Earth Jurisprudence) · Member @IUCNWCEL
OUR EXPERTS & AFFILIATIONS
Our Experts & Affiliations.
INTEGRATED EXPERTISE
Legal expertise, integrated with the systems it governs.
Substance over adjective.
Living Law® brings together specialist legal expertise and forward-looking, rights-based practice to produce resilient advice, enforceable frameworks, and strategic intervention — for people, for planet, for prosperity.
Our work spans regulatory compliance and board-level strategy, climate and ecological governance, corporate accountability, and rights-based legal frameworks. We advise across the field — corporates, governments, boards, institutions, NGOs, and civil society — grounded in the environmental rule of law and in the science reality of planetary boundaries.
LEGAL EXPERT, FOUNDER
Susan D. E-Shaw
LLM · LLB(Hons) · DipLP · NP
Founder of Living Law®, regulated by the Law Society of Scotland.
UN Harmony with Nature Legal Expert (Earth Jurisprudence); Expert Member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law.
INSTITUTIONAL VISION
Founded in 2012 to close a structural gap.
Living Law® was established to address gaps in public-interest environmental law in Scotland — integrating legal rigour with systems thinking and an understanding of governance at every level, to deliver counsel that is enduring, measurable, and defensible. The approach is grounded in the environmental rule of law and informed by planetary boundaries.
By embedding legal rigour across advisory, policy, and governance work, we help leaders and institutions anticipate, adapt to, and resolve systemic environmental challenges. Our work spans advisory services, litigation, regulatory design, and capacity-building — directed at enforceable, long-term outcomes for people and planet.
INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATIONS & ENGAGEMENT
Engaged in the field.
Living Law® contributes to, and is engaged with, the institutions shaping environmental and human rights law. These affiliations give our clients direct line of sight to developments in the field — and a firm engaged with the bodies that develop it.
UN Harmony with Nature Legal Expert
Legal Expert · Earth Jurisprudence
IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL)
Expert Member
UN Right to a Healthy Environment Coalition
Member
Rights of Nature Project, University of Göteborg
Advisor
UN Minamata Convention on Mercury
Accredited Observer
ILAS HUFS, Institute of Latin American Studies
Affiliate
