The Australian Centre for Environmental Law was established in 1991 to create a critical mass of environmental law and policy expertise. Since its inception, ACEL has established itself as the leading centre for environmental law and policy teaching and research in Australia.

ACEL's postgraduate program is designed for both those with no legal training and for lawyers. The program includes a comprehensive array of courses ranging from biodiversity to water, environmental planning and impact assessment to effective business regulation and enforcement. The program's teachers include many of Australia's most prominent environmental lawyers.

ACEL also engages in a wide range of research and consultancy projects relating to both domestic and international environmental law. The staff and teaching and research associates of ACEL are the authors of many of Australia's most significant books, articles and reports about environmental law. When members of the legal profession, government, business or the media seek expert information, they regularly turn to ACEL.

NEWS

The Environment: How does the law contribute to its protection and what more can be done?, by Brad Jessup (Legal Date, Volume 20, Number 4, August 2008)

Chris McGrath's paper, "Will we leave the Great Barrier Reef for our children?” was selected in the top five papers for the 2008 IUCN Alexandre Kiss Award for legal research.

Professor Tim Bonyhady will be talking at the Tasmanian Living Writers' Week in Hobart on Saturday 16 August 2008 about the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Franklin Dam case

Environment impact tests 'worst in country', Brad Jessup in The Age (May 2008)

Two new environmental law courses for 2008:
- Australian Climate Law
- International Climate Law