About the Authors
Gabrielle Appleby is a Professor at the Law Faculty of University of New South Wales (Sydney). She researches and teaches in public law, with her areas of expertise including the role, powers and accountability of the Executive; parliamentary law and practice; the role of government lawyers; the integrity of the judicial branch and First Nations constitutional recognition. She is the Director of The Judiciary Project at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, the constitutional consultant to the Clerk of the Australian House of Representatives, a Director of the Centre for Public Integrity (CPI), and a member of the Indigenous Law Centre. She was the founding editor of Australia’s public law blogging platform, www.auspublaw.org.
Donna Askew is a Lecturer at Melbourne Law Clinics where she coordinates and teaches into Public Interest Law Clinic and the Climate Resilience Clinic. Donna is also a Strategic Advisor at Eastern Community Legal Centre, providing expert community engagement advice and supporting the provision of legal support to communities at risk of climate change impacts. Donna has a wide-ranging background in access to justice service innovation, including establishing cross-sector partnerships in the higher education, health justice and integrated practice settings. Donna regularly presents on access to justice issues both locally and internationally, with a focus on working with legal capability at the entry point to legal assistance sector service provision. Prior to joining Melbourne Law School, Donna was the Director of Partnerships & Community Engagement at Eastern Community Legal Centre. Donna is admitted to practice law in Victoria.
Dr Costa Avgoustinos is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), teaching Constitutional Law, Administrative Law and Ethics, Law and Justice. His main area of research is Climate Change and (its impacts on) the Constitution, which was the subject of his PhD thesis completed at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and other publications. Costa has also been involved in various research projects with colleagues at UTS and other organisations on a range of topics, such as legal protections for First Nations children in foster care, sex workers’ rights in NSW, and ‘Democracy in Schools’ programs.
Narelle Bedford is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at Bond University. Narelle’s Mum is Jackie Bedford from the Yuin people of South Coast, New South Wales, who spent most of her life living in and serving the Tharawal community.
Professor Belinda Bennett is Head of School and Dean, School of Law and Justice, The University of Newcastle, NSW, and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Law at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Her research spans assisted reproduction, law and genetics, and public health law. Her recent publications include: Bennett, Freckelton and Wolf, COVID-19, Law & Regulation: Rights, Freedoms and Obligations in a Pandemic (Oxford University Press, 2023), and Bennett and Freckelton (eds) Australian Public Health Law: Contemporary Issues and Challenges (Federation Press, 2023).
Kathleen Birrell is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law, La Trobe University. Her research adopts critical legal methodologies to explore the relationship between law and ecology, law and humanities and decolonial theory and praxis. She is the author of Indigeneity: Before and Beyond the Law (2016). Her current projects explore the implications of new materialism for legal scholarship, practice and activism in the context of the Anthropocene. She is presently co-authoring a book entitled Law and the Inhuman and is Editor of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment.
Dr Celeste Black is an Associate Professor at the University of Sydney Law School, where she teaches taxation, property and commercial law subjects. Her current research focuses on the intersection of taxation law and climate policy, particularly in relation to the use of market instruments, and the tax issues related to non-standard (gig) work. Celeste is a co-author of Principles of Taxation Law (Thomson Reuters, 2019-2025).
Marcelle Burns is a Gomeroi-Kamilaroi woman and Associate Dean Indigenous, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney. Her research examines the relationship between First Nations and state-centred legal systems, as well as Indigenous knowledges and cultural competency in legal education.
Cristy Clark is an Associate Professor at the University of Canberra. Her research and teaching focuses on legal geography, and the intersection of human rights and the environment – particularly including issues relating to water and climate change. She is the co-author of The Lawful Forest: A critical history of property, protest and spatial justice (Edinburg University Press, 2022, with John Page) and the author of Legal Geographies of Water: the spaces, places and narratives of human-water relations (Routledge, forthcoming).
Margaret Davies is Research Professor and Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Law at Flinders University. She undertakes research in general legal theory and property theory. Her most recent books are Asking the Law Question 5th edition (2023), EcoLaw: Legality, Life and the Normativity of Nature (2022), and Law Unlimited: Materialism, Pluralism and Legal Theory (2017).
Julia Dehm is an Associate Professor and ARC DECRA Fellow in the School of Law, La Trobe University. Her research addresses urgent issues of international and domestic climate change and environmental law, natural resource governance and questions of human rights, economic inequality and social justice. Her books include Reconsidering REDD+: Authority, Power and Law in the Green Economy (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Becoming a Climate Conscious Lawyer: Climate Change and the Australian Legal System (edited with Nicole Graham and Zoe Nay), Locating Nature: Making and Unmaking International Law (edited with Usha Natarajan) and Power, Participation and Private Regulatory Initiatives: Human Rights under Supply Chain Capitalism (edited with Daniel Brinks, Karen Engle and Kate Taylor). She was previously a consultant to the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing assistance and a 2023 Member of the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton.
Kate Fischer Doherty is the Director of Melbourne Law School Clinics where she coordinates student law clinics and an extensive public interest legal internship program. Kate is experienced in the design and development of clinical and experiential learning opportunities and has designed and co-designed several new clinics. In 2024 Kate’s teaching was recognised with an Australian Legal Education Award for Excellence in Teaching (Engagement). Kate regularly presents on clinical design and teaching at national and international conferences. In 2024 she co-organised the National Wellness for Law Forum. An edited collection of papers from the Forum, Wellness for Law: Reflecting on the Past, Shaping the Future, was published by LexisNexis. Kate will co-teach the Climate Resilience Clinic at MLS in 2025. Prior to joining MLS, Kate worked in the community legal sector for more than 10 years. She is admitted to practice law in Victoria.
Frances Flanagan is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney. Her research focuses the intersections between labour law, environmental crisis and changing formations of technology, gender and migration. She has an interdisciplinary background in law and history and has published in academic journals including The Sydney Law Review, New Technology Work and Employment, The Journal of Industrial Relations, The International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations and Labour History. She is also the author of a monograph published by Oxford University Press and co-author of the book Work and Industrial Relations Policy in Australia (2025, Bristol University Press).
Anita Foerster is an Associate Professor in climate change and environmental law at Monash University Business School. Anita uses socio-legal methods to track and analyse the impact and effectiveness of law and regulation. Much of her recent research has focused on corporate environmental accountability, exploring the way in which Corporations Law, the associated private regulatory activities of investors and other company stakeholders, sustainable finance measures and emerging sustainability due diligence regimes influence corporate environmental performance. Within the Monash Business School, Anita leads Green Lab, a hub for applied, interdisciplinary research and engagement on climate change and sustainability.
Beth Goldblatt is a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney and a Visiting Professor in the School of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She researches and teaches in the areas of feminist legal theory, equality and discrimination law, comparative constitutional law, and human rights with a focus on climate justice. Beth is co-director of the Climate Change Working group within the Berkeley Center for Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law, a member of the Australian Discrimination Law Experts Group, and co-convenor of the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR) Network (Australia & Aotearoa/New Zealand).
Ellen Hawkins is a Law and Environmental Science graduate from the Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Ellen has a strong research interest in environmental law and has worked as a research assistant on various environmental law projects. Ellen has published previously on the topics of transboundary air pollution and has a forthcoming publication on the topic of international climate change litigation under the World Heritage Convention.
Dr Emma Henderson is a senior lecturer in the Law School at La Trobe University, where she has coordinated subjects including criminal law, evidence and criminal procedure, and human rights law. Admitted as a barrister and solicitor to the High Court of New Zealand, she has 25 years’ experience as an academic at three university law schools in Melbourne. Her research focus is legislative reform in the area of gendered violence, and in 2024 she was recognized in the LTU Vice Chancellor’s Research Awards for impactful research in the area of jury directions in sexual assault trials. Dr Henderson is currently working on a family violence intervention order project funded by a Victorian Law Foundation Major Grant.
Dr Harry Hobbs is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law and Justice at the University of New South Wales. Harry’s primary research interests are in public law and the rights of Indigenous peoples. He holds an ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award, where he is investigating Indigenous – State treaty-making in Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand to identify lessons for modern treaty-making processes in Australia. He has written widely on treaty in leading Australian and international law journals, such as the Sydney Law Review and the University of Toronto Law Journal, as well as more broadly on constitutional law, legal reform, human rights, transitional justice, and international criminal law.
Vivien Holmes is a Professor at ANU Law School. Her research investigates questions of legal ethics and the legal profession, including the wellbeing of the profession and the profession’s role in the face of the climate crisis. Prior to joining ANU, Vivien worked as a litigation solicitor in private and government practice, a government legal policy officer, a Supreme Court Registrar, a Judicial Registrar, Registrar of Probates and Deputy Coroner (NT). She has been a member of the Social Security Appeals Tribunal and is a member of the ACT Law Society’s Professional Standards Committee.
Anna Huggins is a Professor and the Director of Studies in the School of Law at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Anna teaches administrative law and her research examines environmental regulation and compliance at the international and domestic levels. Her book, Multilateral Environmental Agreements and Compliance: The Benefits of Administrative Procedures, was published by Routledge in 2018. Her latest co-authored book, Natural Capital, Agriculture and the Law, was published by Edward Elgar in 2022. Anna holds a PhD from the University of New South Wales, for which she received a PhD Excellence Award.
Dr Brad Jessup teaches torts, environmental, and experiential law subjects, including the Sustainability Business Clinic at Melbourne Law School (MLS). At MLS, Brad is Director (Sustainability), and a Deputy Director of the Melbourne Centre for Law and the Environment. Brad joined Melbourne Law School in 2012 from the Australian National University, where he had been teaching within the ANU College of Law since 2007. Brad has worked as a planning and environmental lawyer at Herbert Smith Freehills. Brad’s research is focused on the regulation of place, the human and environmental experience of harm, and the role of the law, lawyers, society and policy in responding to risk and threats of environmental harm. Brad has received research funding for projects concerning land use conflicts and community environmental values. In legal practice, Brad has advised clients in matters concerning environmental impact assessment, town planning, property and land access, pollution, and environmental torts.
Hope Johnson is an Associate Professor and ARC DECRA Fellow at the Queensland University of Technology’s School of Law. Hope is a socio-legal researcher in food and agricultural law, regulation and governance. She uses a mix of empirical and legal methods to investigate how to regulate food systems to improve public health and environmental outcomes, and her research has focused on a range of connected topics within this space including food security and the human right to food, food labelling and marketing, meat and dairy alternatives, food waste and plastic food packaging waste. She draws on various areas of law related to food and agriculture including food standards, international trade law, intellectual property and environment and planning law.
Asha Keaney is a Senior Solicitor in the Environmental Defenders Office’s Corporate and Commercial team. She works on climate and environmental litigation, law reform and advocacy primarily in corporate, consumer and competition law areas. Notably, Asha has worked on significant greenwashing proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia against Santos Ltd on behalf of the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility, and Woodside Energy Group Ltd on behalf of Greenpeace Australia Pacific Limited. She previously worked as a lawyer at Gilbert + Tobin. Asha holds a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney.
Rachel Killean is a Senior Lecturer at Sydney Law School. Dr Killean’s research centres responses to violence, with a focus on transitional justice, victims’ rights, sexual and gender-based violence, and harms perpetrated against the natural world. She is the author of Victims, Atrocity and International Criminal Justice (Routledge, 2018), the lead editor of Sexual Violence on Trial (Routledge, 2021, with Anne-Marie McAlinden and Eithne Dowds) and co-author of Green Transitional Justice (Routledge, forthcoming 2025, with Lauren Dempster).
Louis de Koker holds a chair in law at La Trobe Law School (Australia), where he leads the La Trobe LawTech team. His scholarship is focused on corporate compliance and financial crime. Since 2009, he has served as the senior financial crime policy consultant to the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), an independent think tank housed at the World Bank that promotes financial inclusion. He is also currently an Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Commercial and Labour Law at the University of the Western Cape. A former director of the Centre for the Study of Economic Crime at the University of Johannesburg, Louis has advised on a range of financial crime laws and financial technologies in countries such as Fiji, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Namibia, PNG, Samoa, South Africa, Uganda, and Vietnam.
Joanna Kyriakakis is an Associate Professor at the Monash University Faculty of Law. Her research focuses upon how laws enable or preclude accountability and remedy for gross human rights abuses, particularly when abuses occur in the context of global business activities. This involves research in the areas of business and human rights, international criminal law, tort law, and transitional justice. She also researches and teaches more broadly in the areas of international criminal law, tort law, legal education, legal philosophy, and animal law. She is the author of Corporations, Accountability and International Criminal Law: Industry and Atrocity (Edward Elgar, 2021) and a co-author of the student oriented Contemporary Australian Tort Law (2nd ed, CUP, 2024).
Christine Parker lives and works on unceded Wurundjeri land in Naarm (Melbourne). She is a Professor of Law at Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne and Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society. Professor Parker has a long career teaching and researching on lawyers’ ethics, regulatory studies, corporate accountability, food law and policy, and more recently automated advertising on digital platforms and the ecological regulation of AI. Professor Parker’s books include The Open Corporation: Business Self-Regulation and Democracy; Explaining Compliance: Business Responses to Regulation, and influential social critique and text, Inside Lawyers’ Ethics.
Justice Preston is the Chief Judge of the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales. Prior to being appointed in 2005, he was a senior counsel practising primarily in New South Wales in environmental, planning, administrative and property law. He has lectured in post-graduate environmental law for over 30 years. He is the author of Australia’s first book on environmental litigation and more than 155 articles, book chapters and reviews on environmental law, administrative and criminal law. He holds numerous editorial positions in environmental law publications and has been involved in a number of international environmental consultancies and capacity-building programs, including for judiciaries throughout Asia, Africa and the European Union.
Associate Professor Belinda Reeve is the Director of Sydney Health Law, the University of Sydney Law School’s centre for health law, governance and ethics. Her teaching and research interests include tort law, regulatory theory, health law and public health law, and the role of law and regulation in creating a healthy and sustainable food system. She is the co-founder of the Food Governance Node at the University’s Charles Perkins Centre, as well as Australia’s first Food Governance Conference. Her most recent research project focused on the role of Australian local governments and communities in food system transformation.
Nicole Rogers is a professor of climate law at Bond University, where she teaches into a world first climate law degree. She has researched and published widely in the areas of climate law, wild law, interdisciplinary climate studies, and performance studies theory and the law. In 2014, she instigated and then co-led the Wild Law Judgment project, which culminated in an edited publication of collected wild law judgments. Her 2019 monograph, Law, Fiction and Activism in a Time of Climate Change, was shortlisted for the 2020 Hart-SLSA Book Prize and the inaugural 2020 Australian Legal Research Book Award. Her latest co-edited book, The Anthropocene Judgments Project: Futureproofing the Common Law (Routledge, 2023), is the product of an international, interdisciplinary, collaborative project in which participants were tasked with writing the judgments of the future.
Mehera San Roque is an Associate Professor in the School of Law, Society & Criminology at the University of new South Wales. Her research interests include evidence law, feminist analysis of law, law and surveillance/visual cultures, and the newly emerging field of law and sound. She has a particular interest in cross-disciplinary collaborations, including an ARC funded multidisciplinary and international project examining the participation of deaf citizens as jurors, working with linguists, NSW Legal Aid, interpreters and colleagues from Interpreting and Translation Studies. With colleagues in law, forensic science, psychology and medicine, she is involved in research on identification evidence and surveillance technologies aimed at improving the reliability and evaluation of evidence in criminal trials. She is a member of the Evidence-Based Forensics Initiative at UNSW and on the Council of the Australian Academy of Forensic Sciences.
Associate Professor Elen Seymour is a law academic at Western Sydney University School of Law, where she teaches taxation, commercial law, and public law. Her research focuses on the intersection of legal education and regulatory reform, with particular interest in the evolving frameworks that shape legal education and university governance. She also conducts research into the regulation of charities. Elen is a co-author of Financial Planning in Australia: Advice and Wealth Management (Lexis Nexis 2009-2021).
Dr Tim Stephens is Professor of International Law at the University of Sydney Law School. He teaches and researches in public international law, with his published work focussing on the international law of the sea, international environmental law and international dispute settlement. Tim is an author or editor of 11 books. His major publications include The International Law of the Sea (Hart/Bloomsbury, 2010, 2016, 2023) co-authored with Donald R Rothwell, and International Courts and Environmental Protection (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
He has been appointed, on the nomination of the Australian Government, to the List of Arbitrators under the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, and to the List of Experts under the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation. He served as President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law from 2015 to 2019. Tim holds a PhD in law from the University of Sydney, an M.Phil in geography from the University of Cambridge, and BA and LLB degrees (both with Honours) from the University of Sydney. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.
Joo-Cheong Tham is a Professor at Melbourne Law School with expertise in labour law and public law. His labour law research focusses on the regulation of precarious work and labour protection under trade agreements. His public law research centres upon law and democracy with a particular emphasis on the role of money in politics. Since the 2019 student climate strikes, Joo-Cheong has increasingly orientated his research towards the climate crisis. Joo-Cheong’s scholarly publications include his books on Money and Politics: The Democracy We Can’t Afford; Electoral Democracy: Australian Prospects; The Funding of Political Parties: Where Now?; Democracy, Social Justice and the Role of Trade Unions and Global Labor Migrations: New Directions. He has also led two major reports for International IDEA, Climate Change and Democracy: Insights from Asia and the Pacific (2023) and Digital Campaigning and Political Finance in the Asia and the Pacific Region: A New Age for an Old Problem (2022).
Joo Cheong is the National Tertiary Education Union’s Victorian Assistant Secretary (Academic Staff), an inaugural Director of the Centre for Public Integrity and an Expert Network Member of Climate Integrity. From 2012 to 2023, Joo-Cheong was the inaugural Director of the Electoral Regulation Research Network, Joo-Cheong has also been the Deputy Chair of the Migrant Workers Centre.
Steven Tudor is a senior lecturer in the Law School at La Trobe University. He teaches mostly in criminal law and related areas, including the elective Crime and the Environment. His research interests mostly concern the philosophical aspects of criminal law. His publications include Remorse: Psychological and Jurisprudential Perspectives (2010) (co-authored with Michael Proeve), Remorse and Criminal Justice: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Routledge: London, 2021) (co-edited with Richard Weisman, Michael Proeve and Kate Rossmanith), Criminal Investigation and Procedure: The Law in Victoria, 1st ed. (Sydney: Thomson Reuters, 2009) (co-authored with Christopher Corns), and Waller and Williams Criminal Law Text and Cases 14th ed (LexisNexis: Sydney, 2020) (co-authored with Penny Crofts, Thomas Crofts, Stephen Gray, Tyrone Kirchengast and Bronwyn Naylor), as well as various articles in academic journals.
Julian Webb is a Professor at Melbourne Law School, where he teaches legal ethics, civil procedure and regulatory theory. His current research focusses primarily on the technological and regulatory disruption of the legal profession, and on lawyer wellbeing. His publications include two books on lawyers’ ethics: Professional Legal Ethics: Critical Interrogations (Oxford UP, 2000, with Prof Donald Nicolson) and Leading Works in Legal Ethics (ed. Routledge, 2023).
