Our people
Centre Director
Surya Deva
Professor
Centre for Environmental Law (CEL), Macquarie Law School
Surya Deva is a Professor at the Macquarie Law School and Director of the Centre for Environmental Law at Macquarie University. He is also the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development and a Co-Director of the Teaching Business and Human Rights Forum. Deva is an internationally recognised sc… View full profile
Executive group
Peter Davies
Dr Peter Davies is an Associate Professor of environmental planning and policy at Macquarie University within the Faculty of Science and Engineering. Peter undertakes interdisciplinary research bridging the theoretical and scholarly focus of academic inquiry with a problem orientation to support sustainability outcomes for society. He holds an undergraduate degree in Science, a Master of Environmental and Local Government Law and his PhD examined urban water management from the perspectives of social and environmental sciences.
He has published over 70 peer review articles, book chapters and industry reports largely within interdisciplinary teams. Prior to commencing his academic career in 2012, he worked in state and local government and consultancy for 20 years where he held a number of senior roles within the water, environmental protection and management and energy areas. Peter is a member of a number of government environmental and sustainability advisory committees and is also an executive member of the Macquarie University Smart Green Cities.
Paul Govind
Paul Govind is a Lecturer at the Macquarie University Law School. He completed a BA/LLB (Hons) at Macquarie and a LLM at Sydney University focusing on distributive justice and funding for climate change adaptation. He is currently researching the intersection between value change and the Anthropocene, the relationship between climate adaptation and extinction and dephysical property, responsibility, and environmental law.
Cathy Sherry
Professor Cathy Sherry is a leading international expert in land law, with a particular focus on the laws that regulate high density cities. Her book Strata Title Property Rights: Private governance of multi-owned properties (Routledge, 2017) explores the social, economic and political complexity of collectively owned land. It has been cited extensively in academic literature and by courts, nationally and internationally.
Professor Sherry has a particular interest in liveable cities, and the importance of green infrastructure, including urban agriculture. In her previous academic role, she led a cross disciplinary group of academics that created food growing spaces on a high density university campus. She convened and co-taught Food Law, a course which introduced students to the problems of modern food systems, including supply chains, food security, intellectual property law, water law, GMO and agriculture’s impact on climate change. Professor Sherry taught students to grow their own food, to increase their food literacy, and their understanding of the precarity of food production. She has published research on the role of university food gardens in augmenting graduate environmental literacy.
Constantinos Yiallourides
Dr Constantinos Yiallourides is Lecturer in International Law at the Macquarie Law School and Deputy Director of the Centre for Environmental Law at Macquarie University. He has provided expert advice and training to governments, international organizations, and other entities on a broad set of issues of international law.
Advisory board
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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 |
The Hon Justice Brian Preston SC | Chief Judge of the Land and Environment Court in New South Wales |
Professor of Environmental Law at the University of Tasmania | |
Professor and Director of Research Institute of Environmental Law, School of Law, Wuhan University, China |
Centre members
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Shawkat Alam |
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Abdullah Al-Arif |
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Christoph Antons |
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Ashleigh Barnes |
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Amy Barrow |
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Daley Birkett |
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Francesca Dominello |
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Hannah Harris |
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Debbie Haski-Leventhal |
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Donna Houston |
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Maina Mbui |
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Andrew McGregor |
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Sandie Suchet-Pearson |
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Research associates
- 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)
- Nishchala McDonnel, 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