Sarah Levy is a legal scholar and educator whose work centres on marine conservation law, grounded in an interdisciplinary focus on environmental, animal, and Indigenous rights. Her research examines how legal systems shape ecological governance, and how law can function both as a mechanism of exclusion and as a framework for advancing interspecies justice.

She is currently a PhD candidate at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford, where her work explores the legal and sociocultural dimensions of Canadian sealing practices. Levy holds a joint Juris Doctor and Master of Environmental Studies from Osgoode Hall Law School and an Honours Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto. Called to the Ontario Bar in 2020, she teaches environmental and animal law at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, and lectures in public and private law at George Brown College in Toronto.

Captain Paul Watson is a marine conservationist known internationally for his decades of direct engagement in marine wildlife protection. Over the course of his career, he has led numerous ocean-focused campaigns aimed at challenging illegal exploitation and advocating for stronger marine protection frameworks.

He is the founder of the Greenpeace Foundation in 1972, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in 1977, and the Captain Paul Watson Foundation in 2022. His work has been documented in series such as Whale Wars and in several documentaries, and he has received international recognition for his contributions to marine conservation, including the Amazon Peace Prize and the Jules Verne Medal for Conservation.