Academic Staff
Centre for Environmental Law
Macquarie Law School
Macquarie University
Sydney, NSW, 2109
Australia
tel: +61-2-9850 7925
fax: +61-2-9850 7686
email: erika.techera@law.mq.edu.au
location: W3A 441
Ms Erika Techera
LLB (Hons), Grad Dip Leg Prac (UTS), M Env Law, LLM (Macq)
Associate Lecturer
Teaching Responsibilities 2008
LAW542 International Issues in Heritage Conservation
LAW804/859 Heritage Law and Policy
LAW525/826/867 Water and Marine Resources Law
LAW808/857 Environmental Litigation and Mediation
Research Interests:
International and Comparative Law: The recognition of Customary Law in
the South Pacific. Community based conservation of marine areas in South
Pacific Island states.
Heritage Law: The protection of cultural heritage in times of armed conflict.
Protection of underwater cultural heritage
Business Law: Sustainable enterprise. Biotechnology, environmental and
intellectual property law. Environmental ethics and the pharmaceutical industries.
Recent Publications:
"Customary law and community based conservation of marine areas in Fiji." Chapter in edited book in the Probing the Boundaries – Innovative Governance Series. Forthcoming 2008.
"Protection of Cultural Heritage in times of Armed Conflict: The International Legal Framework Revisited" (2007) 4(2) MqJICEL pp.1-20.
"Local Approaches to the Protection of Biodiversity: The role of Customary law in community based conservation in the South Pacific" 2007 ALPN Paper Series.
Samoa: Law, Custom and Conservation (2006) 10 NZJEL pp 361-380
Protected Area Management in Vanuatu (2005) 2 MqJICEL pp 107-119
My papers can also be accessed on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) [Download]