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Surya Deva

Professor


Centre for Environmental Law (CEL), Macquarie Law School

Phone: +61 2 9850 4068

Surya Deva is a Professor at the Macquarie Law School and Director of the Centre for Environmental Law and B&HR Access to Justice Lab at Macquarie University. He is also the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development and a Co-Director of the Teaching Business and Human Rights Forum. Deva … View full profile

Executive group

Peter Davies

Dr Peter Davies is an Associate Professor of environmental planning and policy at Macquarie University within the Faculty of Science and Engineering. Peter undertakes interdisciplinary research bridging the theoretical and scholarly focus of academic inquiry with a problem orientation to support sustainability outcomes for society. He holds an undergraduate degree in Science, a Master of Environmental and Local Government Law and his PhD examined urban water management from the perspectives of social and environmental sciences.

He has published over 70 peer review articles, book chapters and industry reports largely within interdisciplinary teams. Prior to commencing his academic career in 2012, he worked in state and local government and consultancy for 20 years where he held a number of senior roles within the water, environmental protection and management and energy areas. Peter is a member of a number of government environmental and sustainability advisory committees and is also an executive member of the Macquarie University Smart Green Cities.

Paul Govind

Paul Govind is a Lecturer at the Macquarie University Law School. He completed a BA/LLB (Hons) at Macquarie and a LLM at Sydney University focusing on distributive justice and funding for climate change adaptation. He is currently researching the intersection between value change and the Anthropocene, the relationship between climate adaptation and extinction and dephysical property, responsibility, and environmental law.

Constantinos Yiallourides

Dr Constantinos Yiallourides is Lecturer in International Law at the Macquarie Law School and Deputy Director of the Centre for Environmental Law at Macquarie University. He has provided expert advice and training to governments, international organizations, and other entities on a broad set of issues of international law.

Advisory board

Name Position

Professor Ben Boer

Emeritus Professor at the University of Sydney

Dr Nick Brunton

Partner, Norton Rose Australia

Professor Martina LinnenlueckeProfessor and Director, Center for Corporate Sustainability and Environmental Finance, Macquarie University

The Hon Justice Brian Preston SC

Chief Judge of the Land and Environment Court in New South Wales

Professor Benjamin J Richardson

Professor of Environmental Law at the University of Tasmania

Professor Qin Tianbao

Professor and Director of Research Institute of Environmental Law, School of Law, Wuhan University, China

Centre members

Name Research interests

Shawkat Alam
Macquarie Law School
Professor
E: shawkat.alam@mq.edu.au

  • International law
  • Environmental law
  • Sustainable development

Abdullah Al-Arif
Macquarie Law School
Lecturer
E: abdullah-al.arif@mq.edu.au

  • Ocean governance
  • Marine fisheries law
  • Law of the sea

Christoph Antons
Macquarie Law School
Professor
E: christoph.antons@mq.edu.au

  • Environmental law
  • Food security

Ashleigh Barnes
Macquarie Law School
Lecturer
E: ashleigh.barnes@mq.edu.au

  • Human rights law
  • Constitutional law
  • Climate change
  • Medical law and ethics

Amy Barrow
Macquarie Law School
Associate Professor
E: amy.barrow@mq.edu.au

  • Gender, equality and the law
  • Women, peace and security and societies in transition
  • Human rights implementation and enforcement

Daley Birkett
Macquarie Law School
Senior Lecturer
E: daley.birkett@mq.edu.au

  • Ecocide
  • International criminal law

Francesca Dominello
Macquarie Law School
Senior Lecturer
E: francesca.dominello@mq.edu.au

  • Indigenous legal issues
  • Family law and policy
  • Human rights

Hannah Harris
Macquarie Law School
Senior Lecturer
E: hannah.harris@mq.edu.au

  • Transnational regulation
  • Corporate governance
  • Illegal logging and deforestation

Debbie Haski-Leventhal
Department of Management, Macquarie Business School
Professor
E: debbie.haski-leventhal@mq.edu.au

  • Corporate social responsibility
  • Corporate citizenship
  • Volunteerism

Donna Houston
Macquarie School of Social Sciences
Professor
E: donna.houston@mq.edu.au

  • Multispecies cities and societies
  • Anthropocene
  • Environmental justice

Maina Mbui
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
Senior Lecturer
E: joseph.mbui@mq.edu.au 

  • Marine spatial planning
  • Science and policy interface
  • Biodiversity conservation
  • West Indian Ocean

Andrew McGregor
Macquarie School of Social Sciences
Associate Professor
E: andrew.mcgregor@mq.edu.au

  • Food futures
  • Avoiding deforestation
  • Animals in development

Robert Stokes
Macquarie Law School
Industry Professor
E: robert.stokes@mq.edu.au

  • Environment and sustainability
  • Sustainable urban developments
  • Environment and energy transformation

Sandie Suchet-Pearson
Macquarie School of Social Sciences
Professor
E: sandie.suchet@mq.edu.au

  • Indigenous rights and knowledge
  • Human-nature relations
  • Ecological sustainability

Distinguished research fellows

Name Research interests

Julia Dehm

  • Natural resource governance
  • Climate change
  • Human rights

Ronald Holzhacker

  • Climate adaptation
  • Sustainable cities
  • Human rights and governance

Aline Jaeckel

  • Ocean governance
  • Law of the sea
  • Environmental law

Harpreet Kaur

  • Business and human rights
  • Corporate accountability
  • Gender and development

Kanchi Kohli

  • Law, development and sustainability
  • Environmental justice
  • Environment, forest and biodiversity regulation

Dina Lupin

  • Environmental law and human rights
  • Epistemic injustice
  • Silencing

Melanie Montalban

  • Environmental justice
  • Refugee law
  • Human rights

Tibisay Morgandi

  • Energy and environmental law
  • Business and human rights
  • International dispute settlement

Judith Preston

  • Public participation in environmental governance
  • Clinical legal education
  • Bio-cultural diversity protection

Sara Seck

  • Business, human rights and environment
  • Sustainable development and natural resources law
  • Climate justice

Research associates

  • Pushkar Anand, Human rights abuses by investors: Role of international investment law in providing access to remedy (PhD)
  • Amrithnath Sreedevi Babu, Food security, farmers’ rights, and the governance of traditional knowledge in India: An equitable approach (PhD)
  • Lorena Bisignano, Hardening’ investors’ human rights responsibilities: decolonising development finance to guarantee human rights protection and investors’ accountability (MRes)
  • Jiliang Chen, Effective governance of the global commons: the case of area-based management tools/marine protected area in the high seas (PhD)
  • Peter Corne, Critical analysis of China’s biodiversity governance and prospective implementation of its COP15 commitments (PhD)
  • Asanka Edirisinghe, Integration of a legal personhood and rights of nature approach for the protection of rivers against pollution in Sri Lanka (MRes)
  • Nishchala McDonnel, Implementing ecovoltaics regulation: Combining ecological regeneration with large-scale solar in New South Wales (MRes)
  • Miaomiao Yin, Interaction between International Law and International Relations in the Future Evolution of the Antarctic Treaty System
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