Join us for an important update from 'Ecocide Laws Australia', about the potential of creating ecocide laws in Australia.

ABOUT ECOCIDE

Around the world, lawyers and environmentalists are advocating for the law of ecocide to be recognised in international law. In Australia, a group of lawyers, academic researchers and law students have created 'Ecocide Laws Australia', a working group auspiced by the Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA), which is exploring how ecocide laws might be drafted and implemented in Australia.

Featuring Dr Gwynn MacCarrick (UTAS), Dr Michelle Maloney (AELA), Professor Danielle Celermajer (USYD), Professor Anthony Burke (UNSW) and Professor Rob White, this webinar will provide an update about the key issues currently being addressed by the working group.

ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS

DR GWYNN MACCARRICK

Dr Gwynn MacCarrick is a lecturer at the University of Tasmania (UTAS) Law School, and has had a career as international law practitioner, international counsel, refugee lawyer, domestic criminal lawyer, university lecturer and academic. She has had extensive international field experience and brings a real-world applied focus to her teaching. Gwynn was a leading legal authority in the International Monsanto Ecocide Tribunal (2016-2017) and was a panelist and contributing author for the 2019 Citizen's Inquiry into the Health of the Darling/Barka River.

DR MICHELLE MALONEY

Dr Michelle Maloney is Co-Founder and National Convenor of the Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA), Adjunct Senior Fellow, Law Futures Centre, Griffith University; and Director of the New Economy Network Australia (NENA) and Future Dreaming Australia. She advocates for systems change, in order to shift industrialised societies from a human-centred, to an Earth centred governance system.

PROFESSOR DANIELLE CELERMAJER

Danielle Celermajer is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney, acting Director of the Sydney Environment Institute. Through the experience of living through the black summer bushfires with a multispecies community, she began writing about a new crime of our age, Omnicide. Her latest book, Summertime (Penguin Random House, 2021) was written in recognition of the critical urgency of conveying the complex conceptual recognition of the multispecies harms of the climate catastrophe in ways that can provoke affect and hence action.

PROFESSOR ANTHONY BOURKE

Anthony Burke is Deputy Head (Research) of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at UNSW Canberra. He is convenor of the UNSW Environment and Governance Research Group and a Senior Fellow of the Earth System Governance Project. Prior to becoming an academic, he was a research officer in the Australian Senate's environment, arts and communications committee, where he co-authored reports on the ABC, the Jabiluka uranium mine and Australia's response to climate change.

PROFESSOR ROB WHITE

Rob White is Adjunct (Distinguished Professor) at the University of Tasmania. He has written extensively about green criminology, eco-justice and climate politics. Among his recent books are Climate Change Criminology (Bristol University Press, 2018), The Extinction Curve (with John van der Velden, Emerald Press, 2021) and Theorising Green Criminology (Routledge, 2022).

MORE INFORMATION

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