Environment, Climate & Health

ANU Law School’s groundbreaking work in the fields of environment, climate and health helps better equip Australia and the world to tackle the risks of climate change and harness the benefits of emerging health technologies. Our multidisciplinary expertise in these areas encompasses domestic and international environmental law; the operation of environmental markets; climate change and climate finance; and health law and ethics; among other fields.

Our People
Events
Our Impact

Emma Aisbett

Associate Professor

Climate Change & Climate Finance
Environment, Climate & Health
Environmental Law

Donald Anton

Honorary Professor

International Environmental Law

Nina Araneta-Alana

Postdoctoral Fellow

Climate Change & Climate Finance
Critical Legal Scholarship
Environment, Climate & Health

Hina Aslam

Postdoctoral Fellow

Climate Change & Climate Finance
Environment, Climate & Health
Environmental Law

Susan Bartie

DECRA Fellow

Comparative Law
Environment, Climate & Health
Environmental Law

Tim Bonyhady

Emeritus Professor

Environmental Law
Law & Migration

Saule Burkitbayeva

Research Fellow

Climate Change & Climate Finance
Environmental Law
International Economic Law

Peter Burnett

Honorary Associate Professor

Environmental Law
Law & Development

Donald Butler

Professor

Environmental Law

Ruoying Chen

Senior Lecturer

Asian Law
Climate Change & Climate Finance
Comparative Law

Wenting Cheng

Grand Challenges Fellow

Environmental Law
International Law

Jason Chin

Senior Lecturer

Environment, Climate & Health
Evidence
Law, Science & Technology

Jessica Hambly

Senior Lecturer

Gender, Sexuality & the Law
Health Law & Ethics
International Refugee Law

Vivien Holmes

Professor

Environment, Climate & Health
Government Lawyers
Legal Education

Judith Jones

Associate Professor

Environmental Law
Law & Migration

Eun Jung Kim

Visiting Fellow

Legal Professionals and Climate Change

Jonathan Liljeblad

Associate Professor

Comparative Law
Environment, Climate & Health
International Environmental Law

Andrew Macintosh

Professor

Administrative Law
Environmental Law
Law & Development

Rebekah McWhirter

Senior Lecturer

Australian Indigenous Rights
Environment, Climate & Health
Health Law & Ethics

Rebecca Monson

Professor

Critical Legal Scholarship
Environment, Climate & Health
Gender, Sexuality & the Law

Annika Reynolds (they/them)

Visiting Fellow

Environmental Law

Anna Saunders

Lecturer

Intellectual Property Law
International Dispute Resolution
International Economic Law

Marie Waschka

Research Fellow

Environmental Law

14 November

Climate migrants as the new stateless persons

14 November 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Phillipa Weeks Library, Level 4, Building 7, ANU College of Law

04 October

Lawyers Are To Blame For Climate Change. Yeah Nah Yeah?

04 October 2023 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Phillipa Weeks Staff Library, Room 7.4.1.

ANU College of Law, Building 7 Fellows Road, Acton, ACT, 2601

03 October

Thinking hard about lawyers, corporations and the environment: A conversation with Professor Steven Vaughan

03 October 2023 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Phillipa Weeks Staff Library, Room 7.4.1.

ANU College of Law, Building 7 Fellows Road, Acton, ACT, 2601

02 May

Environmental constitutionalism: A masterclass with A/Prof Ron Levy

02 May 2023 6:00pm - 7:00pm

11 April

Pacific priorities and perspectives of the law in an era of climate change

11 April 2023 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Phillipa Weeks Staff Library, Room 7.4.1, Building 7, Fellows Lane

11 April

In conversation: Senator Hilda Heine

11 April 2023 2:30pm - 4:00pm

ANU College of Law Moot Court, Building 6A, Fellows Road

21 September

Book launch: 'Towards the Environmental Minimum'

21 September 2022 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Zoom

15 June

Collision of Law & Climate Change

15 June 2022 5:30pm - 7:30pm

The Edinburgh Castle
294 Pitt Street
Sydney, NSW 2000

30 June

The Annual Kirby Lecture in International Law: Why It’s Time to Terminate the TRIPS Agreement

30 June 2022 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Molonglo Theatre, Level 2, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU

01 March

LRSJ Launch and Recruitment Drive 2022

01 March 2022 12:00pm - 1:00pm

ANU College of Law lawns

Fellows Road, Canberra ACT 2600

28 July

Public Lies and Public Goods: Ten Lessons from when Patents and Pandemics Meet

28 July 2021 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Phillipa Weeks Staff Library

19 May

Responding to climate change: what is the role of law?

19 May 2021 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Phillippa Weeks Staff Library, Law Building 7, 7.4.1

05 May

Australia's National Environmental Law, the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

05 May 2021 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Phillipa Weeks Staff Library, ANU College of Law, Building 7, Room 7.4.1., 6 Fellows Road, Acton, ACT 2601

23 June

The Antarctic Treaty at 60: Reflections, Current Realities and Future Challenges

23 June 2021 9:00am - 12:30pm

The ANU College of Law Moot Courts
Law Building #6

22 April

LRSJ presents Dark Waters movie and panel discussion

22 April 2021 7:30pm - 10:00pm

Cultural Centre Kambri (ANU Building 153), University Avenue, Acton, ACT 2601

21 April

The Lawful Forest: A Critical History of Property, Protest and Spatial Justice

21 April 2021 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Phillipa Weeks Staff Library, ANU College of Law, Building 7, Room 7.4.1.

03 March

LRSJ Virtual Recruitment Drive 2021

03 March 2021 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Online via Zoom

18 November

EPBC Act: Federal environment reform in an age of climate crisis

18 November 2020 6:00pm - 7:15pm

Online via Zoom Webinar

02 September

The Commonwealth’s power to use the ADF to provide civil aid during disasters and pandemics

02 September 2020 1:00pm - 2:00pm

18 June 2025

Logan City Council to pull out of federal government Climate Active program due to financial pressure, transparency concerns

Professor Andrew Macintosh speaks to ABC News

28 May 2025

Can the integrity of Australia's climate offset scheme be restored?

Professor Andrew Macintosh speaks to ABC

18 May 2025

Thorny nature reforms threaten to entangle new minister

Associate Professor Peter Burnett speaks to AAP

13 May 2025

It’s a hard job being environment minister. Here’s an insider’s view of the key challenges facing Murray Watt

Honorary Associate Professor Peter Burnett writes in The Conversation

29 April 2025

Why storing carbon in midwest soil is highly unlikely to happen

Professor Andrew Macintosh speaks to ABC

08 April 2025

What happened to Labor’s promised environmental reforms?

Professor Andrew Macintosh speaks to SBS News

30 May 2024

$7 billion of critical minerals subsidies hangs in the balance

Associate Professor Emma Aisbett speaks to ABC Radio

17 January 2024

‘What not to do’: Gas project ruling a lesson for lawyers

Professor Vivien Holmes SFHEA speaks to Australian Financial Review