Faculty
Professor Michael Jeffery, QC
A
former Chair of the Environmental Assessment Board of Ontario, Canada
in the 1980s, Michael has published and lectured extensively on a wide
range of environmental and administrative law issues.
Appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1978, he practiced for many years at the Ontario Bar and was a senior partner (1990 -1995) of one of Canada's largest law firms and headed its environmental litigation practice.
Michael has undertaken extensive research and published recent articles on climate change and the use of market-based mechanisms, bioprospecting, the impact of intellectual property rights and trade-related issues on biological diversity, environmental governance, environmental impact assessment, environmental ethics and the need for intervenor funding in the context of environmental decision-making.
Until recently, Professor Jeffery served as Deputy Chair of the Steering Committee of the Commission on Environmental Law (CEL) of the World Conservation Union (IUCN). He chaired the Coordinating Committee of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law's 3rd Colloquium on Biodiversity Las hosted by Macquarie University's Centre for Environmental Law in July 2005 and was the lead editor lf 'Biodiversity Conservation, Law + Livelihoods' published in 2008 by Cambridge University Press.
He presently serves as an elected member and Vice-Chair on the Board of Management of the NSW Environmental Defenders Office and served as the immediate past elected Oceania Regional Governor of the International Council of Environmental Law (ICEL) based in Bonn, Germany.
Professor Donna Craig
Donna
Craig is an academic and specialist practitioner in the area of international
and national environmental law and policy. She obtained a Masters degree
in Environmental Law from Osgoode Hall Law School , York University ,
Canada in 1983. Donna has over 20 years experience in this area drawn
from research, law practice, teaching and working with communities, indigenous
peoples’ organisations, governments and corporations. Her publications
emphasise the social and cultural dimensions of environmental and social
impact assessment and sustainable development. In private practice, Donna
has developed corporate environmental management strategies, compliance
training and environmental audit programmes. She has worked with Aboriginal
organisations developing environmental management regimes and advised
on their rights under environmental and human rights conventions. Donna
is currently Professor in Law and the Co-Director of the Environmental
Law Centre at Macquarie University, Professor of Desert Knowledge, Institute
of Advanced Studies, Charles Darwin University, Regional Governor of the
International Council of Environmental Law and serves as Co Convener of
the Specialist Group on Indigenous Rights and Environmental Law (Environmental
Law Commission of the World Conservation Union - IUCN).
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Ms. Erika Techera
Erika
was admitted to practice in 1994. From 1998 to 2006 she was in private
practice at the NSW Bar working generally in the area of common law. She
joined the Centre for Environmental Law as an Associate Lecturer in 2007
and is also a PhD Candidate in the Centre. Her PhD thesis is on the role
of Customary Law in Community-based Conservation of Marine areas in the
South Pacific region.
Ms Aroha Te Pareake Mead - Visiting Research Fellow
Ms Aroha Te Pareake Mead, a respected Maori academic
and strong Indigenous voice, particularly in the areas of intellectual
and cultural property rights, environment and development, and genetic
resources – biological and human, has been appointed MU-CEL
Research Fellow (effective from 1 March 2004). This will significantly
enhance MU-CEL’s research capacity.
Professor Xiaodong Tou - Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Professor Xiaodong (Sean) Tou of WenZhou University, PRC and Director of its Research Institute of Social Law will spend a year with MU-CEL as a Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow commencing in August 2007. Professor Tou's research at MU-CEL will be focussed primarily in the area of climate change and the ways in which China can improve its efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions."