Climate Change and the Australian Constitution

How does - and how should - climate change impact constitutional law? Recent Australian scholarship on the topic includes 'The Australian Constitution in a Time of Climate Crisis' (2025) 50(1) Alternative Law Journal 1 and 'Climate Change and the Constitution: The Case for the Ecological Limitation' (2023) 49(1) Monash University Law Review 267.

Please join the Australian Association of Constitutional Law and the authors of this important scholarship for a free lunchtime webinar.

Moderator:

Professor Luke Beck. Luke Beck is a Professor of Constitutional Law at Monash University and the Victorian Convenor of the Australian Association of Constitutional Law.

Speakers:

Professor Nicole Rogers. Nicole Rogers is a Professor of Climate Law in the Faculty of Law at Bond University. She instigated and co-led the Wild Law Judgment project (2014-2017) and the Anthropocene Judgments project (2021-2023). She is author of Law, Fiction and Activism in a Time of Climate Change (Routledge, 2019) and Law, Climate Emergency and the Australian Megafires (Routledge, 2021). 

Dr Costa Avgoustinos. Costa Avgoustinos is a Lecturer at the Law Faculty of the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). His main area of research is Climate Change and (its impacts on) the Constitution, which was the subject of his PhD thesis completed at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) among other publications.