Background
King Men is a Doctoral Research Fellow in the EMPOWER Project at the Department of Private Law, University of Oslo. Her research area is on developing a strong and coherent regulatory framework for electric vehicle batteries to achieve a sustainable circular economy and enable a sustainable net-zero energy transition in Norway and the European Union. King Men was awarded the Liverpool Merits Scholarship Award and graduated with a second-class upper in LLB from the University of Liverpool. She was one of the top students in the Certificate of Legal Practice in Malaysia and was admitted to the Malaysia Bar in 2017. She has previous experience working in commercial litigation, representing clients in various dispute resolution matters, from employment, contract, tort, construction, and enforcement of judgment such as winding up and bankruptcy.
Other than her experience in the legal field, King Men also worked as an intern and volunteer with a prominent Member of Parliament in Malaysia, and assisted in the political campaigns in Malaysia’s General Election. She was also a Project Officer at the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network – Youth and collaborated with the global team to organise a side event at the World Urban Forum 9.
With her strong passion for sustainability and to continue playing a vital role in tackling the climate crisis, she pursued her LLM in International Law, focusing on environmental law and climate change at the University of Oslo. Her Master’s thesis is on ‘The role of courts in adjudicating climate litigation by holding the government accountable: Its impact, challenges, and the future of climate litigation at an international and domestic level’.
She is also a national rapporteur for Cambodia, Vietnam, and Finland at the Columbia Climate School Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School.
Field of Research
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Sustainability
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Circular economy
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Climate change Law
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Environmental Law
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International Law