Professor Tim Bonyhady is one of Australia's foremost environmental lawyers, cultural historians and curators.
Australian colonial art was the subject of his first three books. Then his interests extended to art, science and exploration in Burke and Wills: From Melbourne to Myth. In his first prize-winning book The Colonial Earth he brought his legal and cultural interests together as he examined the origins of environmental concern in Australia. In his next prize-winning book Good Living Street his focus switched to Vienna, with questions of art, religion and identity looming large in a multi-generational family history. Since then, he has written two more prize-winning books, The National Picture: The Art of Tasmania's Black War and The Enchantment of the Long-haired Rat: A Rodent History of Australia. His latest book is Two Afternoons in the Kabul Stadium: A History of Afghanistan through Clothes, Carpets and the Camera.
His first major legal book, The Law of the Countryside: the Rights of the Public, focused on British law. Otherwise his domain has been Australian environmental law, focusing on property rights in Environmental Protection and Legal Change; on third parties in Places Worth Keeping: Conservationists, Politics and Law, and on climate law and environmental impact assessment in Climate Law in Australia, Adaptation to Climate Change and Mills, Mines and other Controversies.
Tim has also been an advisor to Commonwealth and State inquiries into environmental law and has curated exhibitions for the National Portrait Gallery of Australia, the National Library of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria, the National Gallery of Australia and the Australian National University including one exhibition about colonial portraiture, another about fin-de-siecle Vienna and two devoted to Afghan war rugs.
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Significant research publications
Books and edited collections
Edited books
Professor Tim Bonyhady is one of Australia’s foremost environmental lawyers and cultural historians.
His first major legal book, The Law of the Countryside: the Rights of the Public, focused on British law. Otherwise his domain has been Australian environmental law, focusing on property rights in Environmental Protection and Legal Change; on third parties in Places Worth Keeping: Conservationists, Politics and Law, and on climate law and environmental impact assessment in Climate Law in Australia, Adaptation to Climate Change and Mills, Mines and other Controversies.
Tim’s research also involves many aspects of cultural history. Australian colonial art was the subject of his first three books. Then his interests extended to art, science and exploration in Burke and Wills: From Melbourne to Myth. In The Colonial Earth he brought his legal and cultural interests together as he examined the origins of environmental concern in Australia. In Good Living Street his focus switched to Vienna, with questions of art, religion and identity looming large in a multi- generational family history.
Tim has also been an advisor to Commonwealth and State inquiries into environmental law and has curated exhibitions for the National Portrait Gallery of Australia, the National Library of Australia and the National Gallery of Victoria.
Books & edited collections
Refereed journal articles
Book chapters
Conference papers & presentations
Committees
EXTERNAL ORGANISATIONS
PhD supervision
I am willing to supervise at a Doctoral and Post-Doctoral level in relation to both environmental law and cultural history.
SJD supervision
I am willing to supervise in the areas:
- environmental law and cultural history
I have previously supervised:
- legal and non-legal studies, including law, fisheries law, cultural heritage and urban research
MPhil supervision
I am willing to supervise in the areas:
- environmental law and cultural history
I have previously supervised:
- legal and non-legal studies, including law, fisheries law, cultural heritage and urban research
LLM Masters thesis supervision
I am willing to supervise in the areas:
- environmental law and cultural history
I have previously supervised:
- legal and non-legal studies, including law, fisheries law, cultural heritage and urban research
Honours thesis supervision
I am willing to supervise in the areas:
- environmental law and cultural history
I have previously supervised:
- legal and non-legal studies, including law, fisheries law, cultural heritage and urban research
Past courses
I regularly teach the introductory course, Fundamentals of Environmental Law, and have also been teaching Commonwealth Environmental Law with Andrew Macintosh. In the past I have also taught The Culture of Environmental Law, which brought together my legal and cultural interests.