Today is World Environment Day, which offers the opportunity to reflect on our planet and our place in it. To mark this important day, we’re proud to introduce one of the newest projects in The Australian National University (ANU) Law Reform and Social Justice (LRSJ) program that combines law and environmental advocacy.
We’re proud to celebrate the success of Sophia Collins, a Bachelor of Languages/Laws (Hons) student recently awarded the 2019 Brennan Prize in Public International Law. Indeed, 2019 was a momentous year for Sophia who was also the inaugural International Bar Association legal intern based in London.
In this Q&A, she discusses her supervised research paper completed in Semester 2 last year for which she won the Brennan Prize awarded by the International Law Association (Australia).
Can you provide a brief overview of your paper and who supervised it?
By Natalia Guisasola
Bachelor of Art History and Curatorship/Laws (Hons)
During the latter half of 2019, our team worked tirelessly to put together an award-winning presentation for a panel of judges at the Disrupting Law Hackathon, the first national competition presented by The Legal Forecast.
It’s accessible. It’s environmentally friendly. And it’s resilient to travel restrictions, such as those imposed by the COVID-19 outbreak. Could the world’s first international e-mooting competition offer a glimpse of the future of legal education?
Editor's note: Held over two weeks in January, International Organisations (Geneva) (LAWS4258/8458) is an intensive elective offered each year for law students at The Australian National University (ANU). The course introduces students to the United Nations (UN) European headquarters in Geneva and allows them to experience international law firsthand with particular attention to human rights, trade and environmental law in a global context.