Katarina Sydow

Katarina Sydow (LinkedIn) is the Senior External Legal Advisor to the UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers and an Adjunct Professor at New York University School of Law, where she co-directs the Legal Empowerment and Judicial Independence Clinic. Katarina was previously Director of the Human Rights and Privatization Project at NYU’s Center for Human Rights and Global Justice and has also worked as a consultant for UN Women and the United Nations Development Programme. Katarina received her LLM in International Legal Studies from NYU. Before moving to the United States, she worked as a barrister in the UK for eight years, where she was ranked in Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners.

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The roofs of mostly several houses mostly submerged under a dark sludge-filled river in the center of the frame. The green leaves of plants looming over the water can be seen in the right foreground while a landscape populated with green trees can be seen in the background.

An Urgent and Existential Threat: The Climate Crisis Is Also a Rule of Law Emergency

Nov. 11, 2026 Meg Satterthwaite and Katarina Sydow