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The Australian Centre for Environmental
Law
The Centre includes a number of full-time members of the
ANU’s Faculty of Law who are central to ACEL’s
teaching and research. Several of Australia’s leading
environmental law academics from other universities and
leading environmental law practitioners and also play a
key role in ACEL’s postgraduate teaching program.
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BA/LLB (ANU), PhD (Cantab), FAAH, FASSA
Tim began studying environmental law when he did his PhD at Cambridge
on public rights in the English countryside resulting in his influential
book The Law of the Countryside: The Rights of the Public.
Since then he has explored many aspects of Australian environmental
law – especially in his books Environmental Protection and
Legal Change, Places Worth Keeping: Conservationists, Politics and Law
and The Colonial Earth which won the New South Wales Premier’s
Prize for Australian History and the Queensland Premier’s Prize
for History. He is particularly interested in property rights and obligations,
public participation in environmental regimes and the relationship between
environmental law, politics, policy and history. He is the director
of ACEL
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BSC (CMSU), JD (St Louis)
Anton joined The ANU College of Law in 2000. He served as Acting-Director
of the Australian Centre for Environmental Law and Covenor of all Undergraduate
and Postgraduate Environmental Law Programs until June 2003. He is currently
Assistant Sub-Dean for Students (Careers). In 2003-04, he was Visiting
Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where he
taught International Environmental Law. He has also lectured in International
Environmental Law and Trade and the Environment in the LL.M programs
at the University of Sydney and the University of Adelaide, and has
been a Course Instructor for the United Nations Environment Programme
(UNEP). He served as a Lecturer in Environmental Law and International
Law at the University of Melbourne from 1994-1997.
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Judith Jones
Selected Publications
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BSc (Sydney) LLB (UNSW)
Judith Jones has been a member of ACEL and a teacher
of a range of environmental law courses in the environmental law specialisation
of the Graduate Program at ANU since 1996. She currently teaches Environmental
Landuse and Planning Law and Science in Environmental Regulation. With
a background in both science and law her research focuses on the interdisciplinary
dimensions of environmental law including risk assessment, regulatory
design for scientific uncertainty and precaution. She is a former member
of the Federal government Gene Technology Technical Advisory Committee
and a current member of the Gene Technology Ethics Committee.
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Matthew Zagor |
BA (London), LLB (UNSW)
Matthew has a degree in Religious Studies with Social
Anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University
of London, and an LLB from the University of New South Wales. He worked
on the India desk at the International Secretariat of Amnesty International
(AI), and as the refugee coordinator and government liaison officer at
the Australian Section of AI. Matthew practiced as a solicitor in several
community legal centres and the Commonwealth Legal Aid Commission, working
primarily with migrants and asylum-seekers. As a federal public servant,
he worked in the Australian Greenhouse Office, the Migration Review Tribunal,
and the Attorney General’s Department.
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Don
Rothwell
Selected Publications |
BA, LLB (Queensland), LLM (Alberta), MA (Calgary), PhD (Sydney)
Donald R Rothwell is Professor of International Law at
the ANU College of Law. Previously he was Challis Professor of International
Law and Director of the Sydney Centre for International and Global Law,
University of Sydney. His major research interest is international law,
with a specific focus on international law and the use of armed force,
law of the sea, law of the polar regions, and implementation of international
law within Australia. He is a regular commentator on international law
issues in the print and electronic media. He has taught a range of courses
including Constitutional Law, Law of the Sea, International Environmental
Law, International Law and Use of Armed Force, and Public International
Law. Major publications amongst 11 books and over 100 book chapters and
articles include The Polar Regions and the Development of International
Law (CUP, 1996), and International Environmental Law in the Asia Pacific
(Kluwer, 1998) coauthored with Ben Boer and Ross Ramsay. His most recent
book is Towards Principled Oceans Governance: Australian and Canadian
Experiences and Challenges (2006) co-edited with David VanderZwaag. He
is presently working on projects assessing globalisation and health law,
the law of the sea and maritime security, and the rights of Australian
citizens when detained by foreign governments. Professor Rothwell is the
immediate part-President of the Australian New Zealand Society of International
Law (ANZSIL), and current Co-Chair of the Australian Canadian Oceans Research
Network (ACORN).
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James
Prest
Selected Publications |
BA(Hons)(Adel.), LLB( Hons) (ANU), GDLP (ANU), PhD (Env. Law) (Wollong.)
Dr Prest is a lecturer in law specialising in environmental law with
interests in administrative law and litigation. After graduating from
the University of Adelaide and the ANU and gaining admission to practise
in the Supreme Court of the ACT in 1995 he worked for several years
as a legal policy officer at the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.
He has also held positions as a Research Officer at the Law and Bills
Digest Group of the Parliamentary Library in Canberra and as an adviser
at Parliament House. He has practiced as a solicitor with Corrs Chambers
Westgarth, and the Legal Aid Office in Canberra. In 2004 he was a solicitor
in the Save the Ridge legal team with matters in the ACT AAT, Commonwealth
AAT, ACT Supreme Court and Federal Court. In January 2004 he submitted
a PhD thesis in law at the Centre for Natural Resources Law and Policy,
Faculty of Law, University of Wollongong, under the supervision of Professor
David Farrier, author of the NSW Environmental Law Handbook. Whilst
completing his PhD he gave lectures and tutorial assistance in environmental
law at the University of Wollongong and the ANU. He is also admitted
to practice in NSW, South Australia and the High Court. He has a long-standing
interest in environmental law and public interest litigation. Since
October 2004 James has held the position of principal solicitor at the
Environmental Defender’s Office (ACT). He is currently publishing
papers on major projects legislation, wilderness legislation as well
as material from his PhD thesis dealing with the regulation of forestry
on privately held land in NSW and Tasmania. He is conducting research
in the area of sentencing of environmental offences.
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Adjunct Professor, ANU College of Law
LLB PhD (Birmingham)
Gerry Bates is one of Australia’s best known and respected environmental
lawyers. He is author of Environmental Law in Australia, the standard
text on the subject. He is founder and editor of the Environmental
and Planning Law Journal and co-editor of the Laws of Australia
(environmental law section). In 1994 he was honoured with the National
Environmental Law Association’s special award for "Outstanding
Contribution to Environmental Law". After teaching for many years
at ACEL, he has recently been made an adjunct professor within the ANU’s
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Alan Bradbury |
Partner, Minter Ellison, LLB (UTS), LLM (ANU)
Alan Bradbury is head of the planning and environmental
practice group at Minter Ellison in Canberra. He regularly appears as
an advocate in the NSW Land and Environment Court and advises on the interpretation
of Commonwealth, ACT and NSW environmental and planning laws. Alan produced
the current edition of the ANZECC Guide to Environmental Legislation in
Australia and New Zealand. He is an active member of the National Environmental
Law Association, having served as the Association’s national president
in 1998-99, and remains the president of the Association’s ACT Division. |
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Alex Gardner |
Visiting Fellow (part-time), Associate Professor, Law
School,
University of Western Australia, BA/LLB (ANU), LLM (UBC)
Alex Gardner practised law in Melbourne before joining
the staff of UWA Law School in 1988, where he now teaches public law and
natural resources and environmental law to undergraduate and graduate
students. He has been an active member of the National Environmental Law
Association, and a consultant to the Environmental Defender's Office (WA),
government agencies and private firms in Western Australia. Alex was a
member of the Advisory Council to the Environmental Protection Authority
of Western Australia from 1995 to 1999 and was appointed a senior sessional
member of the State Administrative Tribunal in 2005. Since October 2006,
Alex has been advising the State Department of Water on water resources
law reform. He is particularly noted for his work on water resources law,
including recent articles on environmental water allocations. |
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Neil
Gunningham
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Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law, ANU
LLB, MA (Criminology) (Sheffield)
Neil Gunningham, one of the founders of ACEL, is a professor
within the ANU’s School of Resources and Research School of Social
Sciences. He has held appointments at the University of Wales, Cardiff,
Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, the American Bar Foundation, Chicago,
Wolfson College, Oxford, and the Centre for Study of Law and Society at
the University of California, Berkeley. He has been a private practitioner
and consultant to government agencies, parliamentary committees, employer
and trade union groups.
Neil has published widely about business and social regulation
from an inter-disciplinary and policy-oriented perspective. His present
research seeks to identify the contribution that broader, innovative forms
of regulation can make to environmental protection. His numerous books
include Smart Regulation: Designing Environmental Policy (with
Grabosky), Pollution, Social Interest and the Law, Environmental Outlook:
Law and Policy (edited with Boer and Fowler) and Crime and Environment
(edited with Norberry). |
Jan McDonald |
Professor, School of Law, Griffith University, BA LLB (Qld), LLM (Northwestern
School of Law, Lewis and Clark), PhD (Bond)
Jan McDonald taught at Bond University for many years
before becoming the inaugural John F Kearney Chair in Law at Griffith
University. She has published widely in the area of corporate environmental
liability and trade and the environment. Her present research is examining
the impacts of trade and environment on the Australian timber industry
and the use of the APEC forum to further ESD in the Asia Pacific region. |
Brian Preston |
Chief Judge of the Land and Environment Court of New
South Wales
Brian Preston was the founding solicitor of the New South Wales Environmental
Defender's Office. He moved to the NSW bar in 1987 where he specialised
in environmental law and planning law. He was appointed as Senior Counsel
in 1999 and has conducted consultancies for the government of Trinidad
and Tabago and for the Indonesian judiciary. His many publications include
the book Environmental Litigation. He became Chief Judge of the Land and
Environment Court in 2005. |
| Research Associate
Chris McGrath |
Dr Chris McGrath is a Brisbane barrister
practising in environmental law. His website at http://www.envlaw.com.au
provides case studies of environmental litigation in the Federal Court
and Queensland courts in which he has been involved. He acted as counsel
in the Wildlife Whitsunday Case, Xstrata Case, and Anvil Hill Case, which
concerned the assessment of greenhouse gas emissions from Australian coal
mines.
Dr McGrath holds a BSc, LLB (Hons), LLM (Environmental Law), and PhD.
His PhD thesis
considered laws protecting the Great Barrier Reef and the impacts of climate
change on the GBR.
Dr McGrath has authored over 30 books, chapters and articles on environmental
law. His present research focus is climate change.
Contact details:
Address: John Cooke Chambers, Level 2, 33 Queen Street, Brisbane, Qld,
4000
Telephone: (07) 3229 9097 or 043 829 9097
Email: chris.mcgrath@envlaw.com.au
Website: http://www.envlaw.com.au
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