Anna Grear

In 2022, Grear hosted a summit on fatigue, linking fatigue to planetary and environmental exhaustion, toxicities of contemporary life and to shifts in human consciousness. The summit was a combination of practical guidance for those with complex fatigue conditions, and imaginative thinking about fatigue as a signal to the 21st century and beyond. Guests included leading health and recovery experts, as well as a couple of scholars working with environmental themes, posthumanism and critical theory.

With Professor Tom Kerns, Grear co-initiated the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal on Climate Change, Fracking and Human Rights. The online tribunal hearings were streamed globally from 14 to 18 May 2018 in a first for the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal. The Advisory Opinion recommended a world-wide ban on fracking. Commenting on the tribunal, Grear said "the PPT will play a unique and vitally important role in presenting and rehearsing testimony, arguments and law to lay down an informal but highly expert precedent, with potential for future use in national and international courts of law. The PPT will also educate a wide range of parties and the general public about the human rights dimensions of fracking. This really is a Peoples' tribunal. It belongs to communities and individuals from all over the world and it aims to produce a highly influential, legally literate and serious judgement of the issues by some of the world’s finest legal minds as a trail blazing example for future legal actions, when and where appropriate."

In 2018, Grear was one of 1,400 academics who wrote to The Sunday Times urging that Britain remain in the European Union.

In 2014, she co-founded Incredible Edible Bristol, an urban food-growing movement, with horticulturist Sara Venn.

In March 2010, Grear founded the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, a double-blind peer-reviewed scholarly journal. She has served as editor-in-chief ever since.

In January 2010, Grear founded the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE), an international network for scholars, policy-makers and activists "for the creation of change", where she is now former director.

In 2007, Grear was awarded a Visiting Scholarship at St John’s College, Oxford, which involved a competitive application process. Similarly competitive, she was awarded an International Seminar by the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati, Spain, in 2011. In the intervening years, she was appointed to several fellowships and professorships internationally, and in 2018 she was shortlisted for an IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Senior Scholarship Award.

From May 2000 to January 2006, Grear was a senior lecturer in law at Oxford Brookes University; from February 2006 to January 2012, she was a senior lecturer in law at the University of the West of England. From February 2012 to June 2013, she was associate professor of law at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. In 2013, she took up a post as reader in Law at Cardiff University, where she holds a Personal Chair as Professor of Law and Theory.

Anna Maria Grear (born 4 September 1959) is an English academic, author, and political activist. Grear is the founder of several academic and activist organisations, including the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE) and the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, where she is editor-in-chief. Grear is Professor of Law and Theory at Cardiff University and has written for such international newspapers as The Wire and Süddeutsche Zeitung.