Highlights and Events
Launch of IUCN Academy of Environmental Law and 2003 Colloquium on the Law of Energy for Sustainable Development Shanghai, China (4- 7 November 2003)
The official launch of the Academy took place on 4 November 2003, followed by the first of the three annual Academy Lectures on Environmental Law, delivered by Professor Alexandre Kiss (Strasbourg, France). Professor Kiss, one of the world's preeminent environmental legal specialists, has published widely on many aspects of environmental law, was awarded the Elizabeth Haub Prize in Environmental law and is currently the President of the European Council for Environmental Law.
Participants in the inaugural ceremonies for the Academy included Professors Xie Shenwu and Ye Quyuan, President and Vice-President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Achim Steiner, Director General of IUCN, Professor Nicholas Robinson, Chair of IUCN's Commission on Environmental Law, Professor Charles Okidi (Kenya) and other international figures.
Professor Michael Jeffery and Associate Professor Donna Craig represented Macquarie University and MU-CEL at the inaugural ceremonies.
The official launch of the Academy was followed by the Academy's 2003 Colloquium on The Law of Energy for Sustainable Development. It featured several key lectures by distinguished experts from all regions of the world.
The Honourable Justice Paul Stein AM and Professor Jeffery presented papers and participated in a panel on Building Capacity for Compliance & Enforcement - A Prerequisite to Successful Management of Sustainable Energy Regime. Justice Stein, a former judge of the NSW Land and Environment Court and more recently the NSW Court of Appeal, was until September 2003, the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Macquarie University's Division of Law.
Professor Jeffery's paper entitled Capacity Building For Sustainable Energy Regimes And Effective Compliance And Enforcement: Foundations In University Education to be presented on 6 November 2003 will be posted on MU-CEL's website under "Resources and Publications". All papers presented at the Colloquium will be published in the Annals of the Academy.
Macquarie University, with the strong support of Vice-Chancellor Di Yerbury, through MU-CEL and represented by its Director, Professor Jeffery, will become a full founding member of the Academy. MU-CEL and the University of Auckland's Centre for Environmental Law have been selected to co-host the 2005 Academy Colloquium. More information with respect to this important international event will appear on MU-CEL's website in the months to come.
