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• MU-CEL affiliation with the University of Alicante, Spain

• MU-CEL signs Letter of Cooperation with M C Mehta Environmental Foundation in India

• MU-CEL signs MOU with Shanghai's Jiao Tong University

• MU-CEL Newsletter April 2008

• Sept 07 Graduation

• Professor Xiaodong Tou to spend a year at MU-CEL as Visiting Research Fellow

• Postgraduate Newsletter Aug 2007

• Wuhan University Delegation visit to Macquarie

• Justice Keith Mason AC highlights environmental law in 2007 Law Graduation Address

• 2006 Annual Report

• Professors Michael Jeffery, QC (MU-CEL) and John Mathews (MGSM) give opening addresses at the launch of the Macquarie Forum

• Professors Donna Craig and Michael Jeffery Invited to Participate in Open Forum on International Environmental Governance held at Sydney Opera House, 23/24 November 2006

• Professor Michael Jeffery comments on landmark NSW Land and Environment Court Climate Change Decision

• Susan Shearing spent a number of weeks in April 2006 at the William S Richardson School of Law Environmental Law Program as a Visting Fellow

• Appointment of MU-CEL Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow A/P Xiaodong Tou from Wuhan University , PRC ( to commence in February 2007)

• Erika Techera to join MU-CEL as of January 2007

• Two new PhD students to commence studies in February 2007

• Members of MU-CEL in bid for National Water Commission Research Grant

• Paper Presented to the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law 4th Annual Colloquium at Pace University ( USA )

• MU-CEL assists in the conservation and sustainable development of Korea’s Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). Click here for more details

• “Macquarie Statement” adopted by consensus at IUCN Academy Colloquium. Click here for text. MU-CEL to participate in $70,000 research grant awarded to the Australian Centre for Agriculture and Law (AgLaw) at UNE.

• Professors Donna Craig and Michael Jeffery invited to attend UNU/SPREP meeting of Pacific Island Countries workshop in Cairns. Click here for more details.

• Dr. Shawkat Alam presents paper at Biodiversity Conference in Nepal.

• Dr. Shawkat Alam involved in Research Project on Bangladesh.

• MU-CEL initiates discussions for links to the Centre for Environmental Law Faculty of Law, at Tribhuvan University in Nepal and universities in Bangladesh.

• MU-CEL members awarded $78,000 research grant by US-based Christensen Fund for work in Melanesia. Click here for more details.

• MU-CEL initiates exciting new research initiative with Wuhan University 's Research Institute of Environmental Law (RIEL). Please click here for more details and photos.

• MU-CEL member David Leary to speak at International Marine Protected Areas Congress in Geelong in late October.

• MU-CEL in discussions to establish teaching and research affiliations with other leading Centres and Institutions in Brazil, Italy, Australia and the United States . Click here for more details.

• Dr. Shawkat Alam to speak at biodiversity conference in Kathmandu , Nepal , in November 2005. Click here for more details.

• Justice Keith Mason AC hosts reception for Academy of Environmental Law delegates.

• IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Colloquium hosted by MU-CEL resounding success. Click here for colloquium summary and photos.

• Development of Second Stage of Desert Knowledge CRC research proceeding on track with project "Benefiting Australia through Livelihoods from Desert Resources”. Click here for more details.

• IUCN Colloquium 10-15 July 2005 Biodiversity Conservation, Law and Livelihoods: Bridging the North-South Divide.3rd Annual IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Colloquium.

• Professor Michael Jeffery to speak at Israeli International Ecology Conference in May 2005

• David Leary and Visiting Professor José Morato Leite to speak at International Environmental Law Conference in Brazil (May 2005).

• Professor Michael Jeffery participates as speaker at EDO National Conference celebrating its first 20 years.

• Professor Donna Craig speaks on Property Rights to Water: Environmental Flows, Cultural Values and Traditional Property Rights at Charles Darwin University Public Lecture Series in Darwin (10 May 2005).

• David Leary speaks at CSIRO Symposium (May 2005).

• Professor Craig invited to lecture in series hosted by Fordham University ,Columbia University and the Nature Conservancy (April 2005)

• Professor Jeffery to address students at the University of Ottawa and meet with UNEP and UNDP officials at the UN in NYC in early April.

• Professors Craig and Jeffery participate in North Queensland Undara Workshop sponsored by CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems (March 2005)

• Professor Donna Craig appointed foundation Chair of Desert Knowledge at Charles Darwin University (Alice Springs)

• Professor Michael Jeffery to give guest lecture at Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in April, 2004.

• Research grant of $90,000 approved by Vice-Chancellor for the Development of Ethical Protocols for Cross-Cultural Biodiversity Research and Benefit-Sharing with Indigenous Peoples to be administered by MU-CEL and Warawara.

• Curriculum and course materials for several MU-CEL units undergo major revision.

• MU-CEL involved in series of Desert Knowledge research projects. Professor Donna Craig and MU-CEL are participating in 4 research projects approved by the Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre.

• Professors Michael Jeffery and Donna Craig offer undergraduate natural resources law unit at the University of the South Pacific.

• MU-CEL strengthens heritage links in Asia - admitted as member of the Asian Academy of Heritage Management.

• MU-CEL members invited to three-day IP Workshop in Banff, Alberta organised by GenoQme Prairie on the topic of “IPRs and Living Matter”

• Professors Jeffery and Craig attend meeting in Bonn to participate in negotiations leadinQg to an MOU between the World ConservationUnion (IUCN) and the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).

• International Conference on Indigenous Knowledge and Bioprospecting , April 21-24, 2004 at Macquarie University

• Macquarie Journal of International and Comparative Environmental Law (MJICEL) to be launched in early 2004

• Donna Craig to participate in Desert Knowledge CRC

• IUCN Academy of Environmental Law formally launched in Shanghai and Singapore. MU-CEL and the University of Auckland's Centre for Environmental Law to co-host the Academy's Third Annual Colloquium in July, 2005.

• MU-CEL represented at the World Parks Congress in Durban SA. Prof. Michael Jeffery presents paper on Governance Of Protected Areas.

• Michael Jeffery to participate in ASEAN capacity building training programme sponsored by ARCBC

• MU-CEL members to speak at Major IP & Biological Resources Conference in Singapore in December Donna

• Craig’s book on Capacity Building for Environmental Law in Asian and Pacific Region into second reprint

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