Damien Short is a professor of human rights and environmental justice at the School of Advanced Study of the University of London.^[1]

Focuses of his research include indigenous rights, genocide studies, and environmental human rights.^[1] Short is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Human Rights and a member of the International Network of Genocide Scholars.^[2][3] He is co-director of the Human Rights Consortium and the Environmental Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study.^[1]

Short received an MA and a PhD from the University of Essex, along with an LLB from the University of Wales.^[3]

He is a judge on the International Rights of Nature Tribunal, a project of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature.^[4]

Books published by Short include Reconciliation and Colonial Power: Indigenous Rights in Australia (2008) and Redefining Genocide: Settler Colonialism, Social Death and Ecocide (2016).^[5][6]

• Short, Damien (2003). "Reconciliation, Assimilation, and the Indigenous Peoples of Australia". International Political Science Review. 24 (4): 491–513. doi:10.1177/01925121030244005. S2CID 144432933.
• Short, Damien (2005). "Reconciliation and the Problem of Internal Colonialism". Journal of Intercultural Studies. 26 (3): 267–282. doi:10.1080/07256860500153534. S2CID 144864676.
• Short, Damien (2016) [2008]. Reconciliation and Colonial Power: Indigenous Rights in Australia. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-07054-2.^[7][8]
• Short, Damien (2011). "Cultural genocide and indigenous peoples: a sociological approach". Sociology and Human Rights: New Engagements. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-315-87464-7.
• Huseman, Jennifer; Short, Damien (2012). "'A slow industrial genocide': tar sands and the indigenous peoples of northern Alberta". The International Journal of Human Rights. 16 (1): 216–237. doi:10.1080/13642987.2011.649593. S2CID 144191921.
• Higgins, Polly; Short, Damien; South, Nigel (2013). "Protecting the planet: a proposal for a law of ecocide". Crime, Law and Social Change. 59 (3): 251–266. doi:10.1007/s10611-013-9413-6. ISSN 1573-0751. S2CID 254425099.
• Short, Martin Crook, Damien (2015). "Marx, Lemkin and the genocide–ecocide nexus". Climate Change and Genocide. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-315-71487-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Morley, Damien Short, Jessica Elliot, Kadin Norder, Edward Lloyd-Davies, Joanna (2016). "Extreme energy, 'fracking' and human rights: a new field for human rights impact assessments?". Corporate Power and Human Rights. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-315-62280-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Short, Damien (2016). Redefining Genocide: Settler Colonialism, Social Death and Ecocide. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84813-546-8.^{[9][10][11][12]}
• Crook, Martin; Short, Damien; South, Nigel (2018). "Ecocide, genocide, capitalism and colonialism: Consequences for indigenous peoples and glocal ecosystems environments" (PDF). Theoretical Criminology. 22 (3): 298–317. doi:10.1177/1362480618787176. S2CID 150239863.
• Short, Damien; Szolucha, Anna (January 2019). "Fracking Lancashire: The planning process, social harm and collective trauma". Geoforum. 98: 264–276. doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.03.001. hdl:1956/23207.