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Building 7, Law School, Room 7.4.1, Phillipa Weeks Library
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Event description
Environmental law is often understood as a legally anomalous subject that doesn’t demand much in the way of conventional legal thought and doesn’t fit into the way law is normally classified. This presumption about the lack of fit of environmental law has resulted in a failure to recognise the legal work and legal expertise the subject involves. In this paper, building on a three year project that involves archive work in Australia, the US, and the UK, I show the type of structural legal questions environmental law gives rise to, the dangers of wishful thinking, and the law jobs (and legal expertise)the subject requires.
Speakers
Liz Fisher
Professor Liz Fisher is Professor of Environmental Law in the Faculty of Law, Corpus Christi, College Oxford, and has been a Fellow of Corpus since 2000. She is currently on a three year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship researching ‘Environmental law and legal imagination: pasts and futures’. She writes widely on environmental law and administrative law in national common law jurisdictions. Risk Regulation and Administrative Constitutionalism (Hart Publishing, 2007) won First Prize for the Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship in 2008 and Elizabeth Fisher and Sidney Shapiro, Administrative Competence: Reimagining Administrative Law (CUP 2020) was jointly awarded the American Bar Association Administrative Law Section's Scholarship Award 2021. She is an Overseas Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. She has won teaching awards and She is General Editor of the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and served as General Editor of the Journal of Environmental Law for a decade from 2012 to 2022.