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Director

Name	Position
Professor Ben Boer	Emeritus Professor at the University of Sydney
Dr Nick Brunton	Partner, Norton Rose Australia
Professor Martina Linnenluecke	Professor and Director, Center for Corporate Sustainability and Environmental Finance, Macquarie University
Dr Virginia Marshall	Research Fellow, School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), Australian National 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 Tianba	Professor and Director of Research Institute of Environmental Law, School of Law, Wuhan University, China

Name	Research interests
Associate Professor Julia Dehm La Trobe University, Melbourne	Natural resource governance Climate change Human rights
Professor Ronald Holzhacker Faculty of Spatial Sciences University of Groningen, Netherlands	Climate adaptation Sustainable cities Human rights and governance
Associate Professor Aline Jaeckel Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security University of Wollongong	Ocean governance Law of the sea Environmental law
Harpreet Kaur Business and Human Rights Specialist, Project Manager United Nations Development Programme	Business and human rights Corporate accountability Gender and development
Kanchi Kohli Researcher and Visting Faculty Member NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, India	Law, development and sustainability Environmental justice Environment, forest and biodiversity regulation
Associate Professor Dina Lupin University of Southampton Law School	Environmental law and human rights Epistemic injustice Silencing
Melanie Montalban Consultant (Climate Change and Human Rights) Australian Human Rights Commission	Environmental justice Refugee law Human rights
Associate Professor Tibisay Morgandi School of Law Queen Mary University, London	Energy and environmental law Business and human rights International dispute settlement
Judith Preston Macquarie Law School Macquarie University, Sydney	Public participation in environmental governance Clinical legal education Bio-cultural diversity protection
Professor Sara Seck Schulich School of Law Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada	Business, human rights and environment Sustainable development and natural resources law Climate justice

Name	Project
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)
Fraser Gray	The Politics of Nature: Jacques Rancière and Political Ecology (PhD)
Nishchala McDonnell	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