About the Authors
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
