News and events
Events
Seminars and webinars
2022
| Date | Speaker | Lecture title |
|---|---|---|
| 21 March | Professor Zhao Yun, University of Hong Kong | Space commercialisation and space sustainability: a softening of space law? |
2021
| Date | Speaker/s | Lecture title |
|---|---|---|
| 22 March | Professor An Cliquet | The European Union’s 2030 Biodiversity Strategy |
| 6–8 July | Arif Havas Oegroseno, Dr Anne Polina, Professor Xue Dayuan, Professor Belinda Reyers | Global Dialogue on Biodiversity Law and Governance: Transformative Pathways to “Living in Harmony with Nature” |
Law and nature dialogue
2022
| Date | Speaker | Lecture title |
|---|---|---|
| 16 June | Professor Margaret Davies | Legality, life and the normativity of nature |
2021
| Date | Speaker | Lecture title |
|---|---|---|
| 24 February | Professor Tianbao Qin, Wuhan University | The evolution and challenges in China’s implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity Download information about Professor Qin’s inaugural lecture |
| 30 April | Professor Karen Scott, Canterbury University | Will the BBNJ Agreement support efforts to mitigate the impacts of climate change on high seas biodiversity? |
| 27 May | Professor Jan McDonald, University of Tasmania | Pathways to adaptation for conservation law and policy |
| 30 June | Professor Elisa Morgera | Marine biodiversity and human rights: existing international obligations and new avenues for international law making |
| 25 August | Professor Holly Doremus | Conservation equity |
| 15 September | Professor Liz Fisher | What the history of nature conservation law tells us about ecological futures: a non-Euclidean vision of the Anthropocene |
| 4 October | Professor Nilüfer Oral | Towards a new BBNJ Agreement: negotiating a new treaty for the conservation of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction |
Annual lecture
2021
| Date | Speaker | Lecture title |
|---|---|---|
| 17 November | Her Excellency, Elizabeth Maruma Mrema | Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on biodiversity conservation efforts and international environmental governance |
2016
| Date | Speaker | Lecture title |
|---|---|---|
| 29 September | The Honourable Rob Stokes MP | Cities and sustainability: operationalising sustainability principles in metropolitan planning governance |