Visitors and Faculty Exchanges
Faculty Exchanges 2005
- Professor Jose' Rubens Morato Leite (Federal University of Santa Caterina) - Brazil, one of Brazil'a foremost environmental law experts in the areas of environmental impact assessment and sustainable development, commenced in February 2005 as a Visting Fellow at MU-CEL. Professor Laite also participated as a speaker in the Biodiversity Colloquium hosted by MU-CEL in July 2005.
- Professor Richard Hildreth (University of Oregon) Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Law Center of the University of Oregon ’s School of Law and an expert in marine law visited MU-CEL in 1994 to meet with academic staff and postgraduate students. Professor Hildreth visited the Centre again in mid-2005 and attended the 3rd IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Biodiversity Colloquium in July.
Faculty Exchanges 2004
- Professor Kurt Deketelaere (University of Leuven) who spent a brief time as a Visiting Professor of the Division in May of 2003 returned in 2004 to spend a few days at MU-CEL to meet with our postgraduate students and faculty. During his visit to MU-CEL Professor Deketelaere gave a well-attended lecture to undergraduate and postgraduate students taking the International environmental law unit on the way in which the European Community was responding to climate change and the anticipated coming into force of the Kyoto Protocol.
Faculty Exchanges 2003
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Professor Michael Jeffery and Associate Professor Donna Craig spent part of their overseas study leave in first semester 2002 as the inaugural visiting professors in the Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy LL.M. Program at the James E. Rogers School of Law at the University of Arizona (U of A) in Tucson.
While at U of A, they convened and taught a unit titled "Comparative Indigenous Environmental Law and Management" to a group of indigenous LL.M students from the United States, Canada, Peru and Taiwan.
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Professor Robert Hershey , Director of the Indian Law Clinic at the University of Arizona will be visiting MU-CEL during the last week of March 2003 and co-convening a post-graduate unit titled "Law, Globalization and Cultural Transformations".
Professor Hershey brings with him extensive experience acting as Special Counsel for a number of American Indian tribes, including the White Mountain Apache Tribe and the Pascua Yaqui Tribe. For the past ten years he has taught Indian law at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. His current courses include Tribal Law Clinical Education (which promotes and assists the self-determination of aboriginal communities in the southwestern United States and worldwide), Advanced Topics in Indian Law, & Globalization and the Preservation/(Transformation) of Culture.
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Professor James Salzman of the Washington College of Law, American University in Washington DC is currently visiting Macquarie University as recipient of a Senior Fulbright Scholarship. After spending the past few months with Macquarie's Key Centre on Biodiversity and Bioresources, Professor Salzman will move over to MU-CEL for the duration of his visit until late June 2003.
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Professor Nicholas A. Robinson, the Gilbert and Sarah Kerlin Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law and Co-Director of Pace University's Centre for Environmental Legal Studies (one of the leading environmental law centres in the U.S.) will be MU-CEL's Visiting Professor under Macquarie University's Millennium Grant Program. Prof. Robinson will be visiting the Centre for a period of approximately five weeks during September and October of 2003.
Prof. Robinson served as former general counsel of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. He is currently legal advisor and Chair of the IUCN's Commission on Environmental Law. In his distinguished career he founded Pace University's environmental law programs and edited the proceedings of the 1992 United Nation's Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
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Hon Justice Paul Stein AM - Plans are underway for Justice Paul Stein, a member of the New South Wales Court of Appeal to visit the Law Division, under its Distinguished Visitor program towards the end of 2003.
Justice Stein, a former judge of the NSW Land and Environment Court, is a long-time friend of MU-CEL and is a member of the Centre's Advisory Board. More details of Justice Stein's visit will be posted on MU-CEL's website over the coming months.