WORKSHOP mATERIALS
AGENDA ( and annotated version), ecr PAPERS, including a late Entrant, a Substitute paper for butterly and Readings 1, 2 and 3 for final session
Guidelines for paper discussion sessions
wORKSHOP participants
Lisa Adkins is the BHP Billiton Chair of Sociology at the University of Newcastle, Australia and Academy of Finland Distinguished Professor (2015-2019). She is co editor-in-chief of the journal Australian Feminist Studies. Widely published in the areas of social theory, economic sociology and feminist theory her recent research focuses on the restructuring of labour and shifts to the economy-society relation in post-Fordist capitalism, especially via the process of economization. Publications from this research have appeared in South Atlantic Quarterly, Social Epistemology, Feminist Review and NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. She has also recently contributed to debates concerning the reconstruction of social science through the volumes What is the Empirical? (2009; co-edited with Celia Lury) and Measure and Value (2012; co-edited with Celia Lury).
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Bronwen Morgan is a socio-legal scholar with a longstanding interest in
regulation and governance (An Introduction to Law and Regulation 2007),
changes in state formation (The Role of the Regulatory State in the Global
South 2013) and the increasing economisation of political discourse and
practices. Professor of Law at UNSW Australia, her current research interests spring from a dual interest in the
socio-political implications of ecological crisis on the one hand, and on the
other hand, practices that mix elements of social activism and social
enterprise. She is exploring the ways in which these practices engage with
(socio)-legal and regulatory frameworks, particularly as they move along a
trajectory of increasingly formalised activity. Her current empirical focus is
on transport, energy, food and space; earlier work has focused on regulation
and the welfare state (Social Citizenship in the Shadow of Competition 2003)
and access to urban water services (Water on Tap 2011). She emphasises the
diversity of ways in which legalities can manifest - not unlike the notion of
diverse economies, formal state law hierarchically applied is only the 'tip of
the iceberg' of the multitude of diverse forms of lawful life that animate the
initiatives she is studying. She is also interested in the emerging debates around
the sharing economy, and the degree to which they overlap - or not - with her broader research agenda.
Professor Susan S. Silbey is Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Humanities, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, and Professor of Behavioral and Policy Sciences, Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Silbey is interested in the governance, regulatory and audit processes in complex organizations. Her current research focuses on the creation of management systems for containing risks, including ethical lapses, as well as environment, health and safety hazards. Previous books include The Common Place of Law: Stories from Everyday Life (with Patricia Ewick) (1998), In Litigation: Do the 'Haves' Still Come Out Ahead (with Herbert Kritzer) (2003), Law and Science (I): Epistemological, Evidentiary, and Relational Engagements, and Law and Science (II): Regulation of Property, Practices, and Products (2008). Silbey is the recipient of numerous prizes and awards including a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2009), Doctor Honoris Causa from Ecole Normale Superiere Cachan in Paris (2006) and the Harry Kalven Jr. Prize for advancing the sociology of law (2009). She is Past President of the Law & Society Association, and a fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Katherine Gibson is a Professorial Research Fellow in the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney. She is an economic geographer with an international reputation for innovative research on economic transformation and over 30 years’ experience of working with communities to build resilient economies. As J.K. Gibson-Graham, the collective authorial presence she shares with the late Julie Graham (Professor of Geography, University of Massachusetts Amherst), her books include The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy (Blackwell 1996) and A Postcapitalist Politics (University of Minnesota Press, 2006). Her most recent books are Take Back the Economy: An Ethical Guide for Transforming Our Communities, co-authored with Jenny Cameron and Stephen Healy (University of Minnesota Press, 2013), Making Other Worlds Possible: Performing Diverse Economies, co-edited with Gerda Roelvink and Kevin St Martin (University of Minnesota Press, 2015) and Manifesto For Living in the Anthropocene, co-edited with Deborah Bird Rose and Ruth Fincher (Punctum Press, 2015).
Dr. Jeroen van der Heijden is an Associate Professor of Environmental Governance, joint position at the Australian National University and the University of Amsterdam. He works at the intersections of regulation and governance, policy change, and urban development and transformation. His research aims to improve local, national and international outcomes of urban governance on some of the most pressing challenges of our time: climate change, energy and water use, and a growing and increasingly urbanising world population. Through his work Dr. Van der Heijden seeks to inform ongoing academic debates on these challenges, as well as to provide hands-on lessons to policy makers and practitioners on how to govern urban sustainability and resilience on a day to day basis. He has a track record of outstanding academic and other publications. Over the last decade, he has published four peer-reviewed books (the most recent is Governance for Urban Sustainability and Resilience, Edward Elgar, 2014) and over 35 articles in peer reviewed journals. Dr. Van der Heijden was awarded a VENI Fellowship from the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research for the period 2012-2015; and a DECRA Fellowship from the Australian Research Council for the period 2015-2018. These Fellowships have allowed him to carry out empirical research in Australia, Asia, Europe and North America on close to 70 unique governance arrangements for improved urban sustainability and resilience.
Lauren Butterly is an Associate Lecturer in Law at the Australian National University where she researches in the areas of Indigenous rights, environmental law and environmental governance. She is also a PhD Candidate at UNSW Law and her thesis is titled: “Turning the Tide of Aspirations into Legal Implications: Exploring the way forward for Indigenous governance of Sea Country in Australia". This thesis explores the potential for law reform in the area of Indigenous governance of Sea Country and involves empirical legal research methodologies. Lauren holds a Bachelor of Arts (History) focusing on Indigenous history and a Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours, both from the University of Western Australia.
Peter Burdon is a Senior Lecturer at the Adelaide Law School and deputy chair of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Ethics Specialist Group. Peter teaches and researches on environmental law, social movements, democracy, legal theory and the corporatisation of higher education. His most recent book is Earth Jurisprudence: Private Property and the Environment (Routledge, 2014) and he is currently writing a book on Hannah Arendt and trial of Adolf Eichmann (Routledge, forthcoming 2016
Elena Aydos is a lecturer at the Newcastle Law School and a doctoral candidate at the Sydney Law School and Tilburg Law School (Netherlands), currently in the final year of my candidature. Prior to moving to Australia I was a taxation Lawyer in Brazil and completed an MPhil on carbon taxes at the Centre for Law, Environment and Policy, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. I hold two Master of Laws degrees, the first one in Tax Law, Finances and Economics and the second one in Public Law (Constitutional Law, Administrative Law and Tax Law). Her current research is interdisciplinary and examines the connections between Emissions Trading Schemes and the regulation of subsidies in International Economic Law. More specifically, I focus on the methodologies for free allocation of permits to heavy emissions-intensive industry sectors under the former Australian Carbon Pricing Mechanism, the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and NZ Emissions Trading Scheme.
Tanya Howard is a newly appointed postdoctoral research fellow with the Invasive Animals and University of New England project: Facilitating Effective Community Action. Tanya has recently submitted her doctoral thesis on participatory processes in the environmental governance of rural landscapes and capacity building in rural communities. Tanya's research applies socio-legal methods to explore how community voices are brought into environmental governance. Tanya was born in Sydney, Australia and gained a BA at the University of New South Wales and a Masters of Environmental Education at Macquarie University. Her non-academic experience includes working with communities to develop and deliver quality natural resource management outcomes from the non-government to government sectors. After eleven years working in the Northern Territory, Tanya returned to NSW with her young family to take up doctoral studies at the Australian Centre for Agriculture and Law in Armidale. Since entering academia Tanya has taught postgraduate students in the Masters of Sustainability course and represented Higher Degree research students on the UNE Law School's research committee. Tanya has active research links with Pennsylvania State University and the Kettering Foundation in the USA. Tanya is passionate about the role of authentic and honest communication, deliberative practices and sustainability education in the pursuit of environmental and social justice.
Anna Huggins is a Senior Lecturer in the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) School of Law. Her primary research interests lie in the fields of administrative law and regulation in both domestic and global contexts. Her work explores the implications of administrative proceduralisation in diverse settings, including international environmental law and higher education regulation. Her doctoral research through UNSW Law is supervised by Professors Bronwen Morgan and Rosemary Rayfuse, and is entitled ‘The Desirability of Administrative Proceduralisation: Compliance Rules and Decisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements’. Anna is the co-program leader of the QUT Law School’s International Law and Global Governance research program, and is a member of the International Society of Public Law. She was previously the Assessment and Curriculum Development Fellow at UNSW Law and worked in environmental law at the NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change.
Nicole Graham researches the relationship between property and the environment in law, culture and land use practices. She is particularly interested in the role of property rights in natural resource management and environmental planning policies. Current projects on which Nicole is working include the role of law in environmental histories and landscape change; and the relationship between law and science in regard to the development of land use policy (including especially vegetation and mining). She is a member of the Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG), National Environmental Law Association (NELA), Australian Earth Law Alliance (AELA) and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Nicole supervises three PhD projects and has taught Real Property; Property in Natural Resources; Resources and Environmental Management; Jurisprudence and several first year law subjects in the LLB, BEnvMgt and JD programs at Macquarie University and UTS for which she was awarded University, Faculty, and Law Student Society Teaching Awards.
Jeff McGee is the Senior Lecturer in Climate Change, Marine and Antarctic Law at the University of Tasmania. As an international lawyer with dual areas of expertise, he divides his time between the Faculty of Law and the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies. Dr McGee’s research is focused on providing strategies through international law and institutions by which humanity can better respond to climate change in the Anthropocene. Merging scientific knowledge with public understanding and innovative and effective policy design regarding climate change and its consequences is his key objective. He completed his PhD in Environment and Geography at Macquarie University and has a Master of Environmental Studies. He was a partner in a successful legal practice in NSW and a senior legal advisor to the Federal Government for ten years prior to commencing his academic career. His work is widely published in leading international journals in the fields of international environmental law, global environmental governance and climate change policy.
Meg Vine has been employed in a fulltime Level A teaching and research position at the University of New England (UNE) in the School of Law since September 2014. She has a Bachelor of Arts (majoring in Public Policy) and Bachelor of Laws and Legal Practice from Flinders University and a Master of Laws (Coursework) from the University of Sydney. She is interested in international, environmental, energy and resources and tax law and has published in the Environmental and Planning Law Journal. Prior to commencing at UNE she worked at the Australian Taxation Office in a variety of law interpretation areas. She plans to draw on her background in tax law and policy for future PhD research in the developing and increasingly topical field of animal law.
Liesel Spencer is a member of the School of Law at Western Sydney University. Her research interests are in public health law and food systems. She is writing a PhD thesis at the University of Technology Sydney, 'A Comparative Legal Geography of Food Welfare and Public Health in Australia and the US in the 21st Century'. She also researches and publishes in the area of legal education, on assessment, on the use of exemplars, and on motivating law students to engage in reading. Liesel is a first year teaching specialist and the recipient of student-selected teaching awards. Prior to joining the school, she taught as a sessional law lecturer with WSU, the University of Sydney, and the University of Wollongong. Liesel has also held positions in legal publishing with Law Book Company (now Thompson), as a commercial litigation paralegal, and in journalism. Liesel is admitted as a lawyer in the Supreme Court of New South Wales (but is not currently practising).
Ann Apps is a lecturer at Newcastle Law School, University of Newcastle, Australia. She lectures in business law, contracts and conveyancing. She is also a PhD candidate and a research fellow at the Centre for Public International and Comparative Law, TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland. Her PhD topic is “Realising Potential – A comparative study of the legal frameworks for co-operatives in Australia and the South Pacific.” Her research into co-operatives focuses on the issues of legal pluralism, legal transplants and business regulation in the South Pacific countries of Fiji, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands. Ann is also a member of the Australian Business Council for Co-operative and Mutual’s (BCCM) Research and Education Steering Group and in this role is an advocate for the expansion of the undergraduate academic curriculum in law and business to include studies of a broader range of business models including co-operatives, mutuals and other not-for profits.
Felicity Deane completed a Bachelor of Law and a Bachelor of Commerce at the University of Queensland in 1999 and then commenced work and study in the United States in the disciplines of accounting and law. She returned to Australia to complete a Post Graduate Diploma at Monash University. Before returning to studies Felicity worked as a Senior Policy Officer with the Queensland Police Service. She commenced PhD studies in December 2009 at Queensland University of Technology. Her PhD entitled, ‘The Clean Energy Package and WTO Law: An Analysis of Compliance Issues’ was subsequently completed in August 2013. In January 2014 Felicity commenced her time as a lecturer within the QUT law school on the early career academic program. She has published a number of articles on the topic of emissions trading, market based mechanisms and the WTO Law. Her book ‘Emissions Trading and WTO Law: A Global Analysis’ was published in March 2015.
Cobi Smith is currently teaching at the University of Melbourne in the Masters of Environment, specifically in Transdisciplinarity and Environment, as well as an undergraduate course in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. She also does technology development work with Research Platforms, particularly on open science platform Figshare, and has done infographics, data research and evaluation work with Melbourne Law School. In 2014 Cobi Smith was a consultant with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research satellite applications programme, UNITAR-UNOSAT, based within CERN in Geneva. She was working on an open source citizen science project for use humanitarian disaster responses. Earlier she was a Visiting Scholar at Melbourne Law School as part of her PhD. She began her PhD with Australian National University’s Centre for the Public Awareness of Science and was earlier Communications Manager for a genomics centre based at the University of Adelaide. She is a member of the Scientific Committee for the global Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) network. In 2013 she was an Australian Youth Ambassador for Development with the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) in its secretariat in northern Thailand. Based within AIPP's research and communication development team she supported their environment, gender, human rights and capacity building programs. 2011-2012 she was Science in Society Facilitator for South Australia, employed through the Australian Government's Inspiring Australia program, based in the Royal Institution of Australia. Earlier she was a journalist and newsreader for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, building on undergraduate degrees in international studies and journalism.
Hope Johnson is a PhD Candidate and sessional academic at Queensland University of Technology. Her research is primarily focused on the global governance of food systems across environmental, social and economic dimensions. She has taught in a range of law and justice subjects including alternative dispute resolution, eco-crime and law and global perspectives. Hope has published in areas of water governance, sustainable diets and food and agricultural law. She will be submitting her thesis in February.