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Date	Speaker	Lecture title
30 Oct 2025	Professor David Schlosberg – Director, Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney	Climate Turbulence, Justice and Democratic Experimentation. Watch the recording of the lecture
4 Sept 2024	Dr Virginia Marshall, Australian National University	Accelerating Australia's opportunities: Advancing caring for country.
5 Apr 2023	Professor Malcolm Langford, University of Oslo	Climate change in the courts: A responsive approach. Watch the recording of the lecture

Date	Hosted by	Lecture title
10 Oct 2025	Macquarie Environmental Law Centre and University of New England Law School Symposium	Symposium on Food Security in Turbulent Times: Critical Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific Region and Beyond. See symposium abstract, objectives and themes
1–2 Nov 2023	Centre for Environmental Law	CEL 40th Anniversary Conference: Pathways to Just Transitions for a Sustainable Common Future
15 Sept 2023	Professor Cathy Sherry	Macquarie Food Symposium

Date	Speaker	Lecture title
10 Oct 2024	Access to Justice Lab	The Mariana Dam Disaster: A conversation with claimants and their lawyer. See an overview of the conversation

Date	Speaker	Lecture title
2023	Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Justice Brian Preston, Professor Anne Poelina, Dr Michelle Maloney, Dr Rachel Kilean	Ecocide – Australia and Global Perspectives Watch the recording of the roundtable
	Dr Megan Ewans, Ruth Dawes, Rachel Walmsley	Roundtable event on Biodiversity Markets and Law Watch the recording of the roundtable
2022	Professor Margaret Davies	Legality, life and the normativity of nature Watch the recording of Professor Davies’ lecture

Date	Speaker	Lecture title
5 Aug 2025	Professor Surya Deva, Justice Brian Preston, Dr Jolene Lin, Professor Carlos Bernal Pulido, Johanna Gusman, Heike .Alefsen	Climate change and human rights: Advice from advisory opinions Watch the recording of this webinar
31 Oct 2023	Professor Surya Deva, Professor Barnali Choudhury, Dr Harpreet Kaur	Business, human rights ad climate change: Role of researchers
31 May 2023	Dr Constantinos Yiallourides, Ingrid Gubbay (Head of Human Rights and Climate Law at Hausfeld), Toby Fisher (Barrister at Matrix Chambers), Associate Professor Dr Aline Jaeckel (Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security) and Monica Feria-Tinta (Barrister at Twenty. Essex)	Webinar on Deep Seabed Mining and International Law: Is a Precautionary Pause Required?
2022	Professor Zhao Yun, University of Hong Kong	Space commercialisation and space sustainability: a softening of space law? Watch the recording of this lecture

Date	Hosted by	Workshop title
24 July 2025	Macquarie University Environmental Law Research Centre and University of Southern Queensland’s School of Law and Justice.	Integrating the Sustainable Development Goals into Legal Education. See workshop overview, objectives and themes
27 Sept 2024	Macquarie University Environmental Law Research Centre, the GNHRE, Southampton Law School and the OHCHR for the Pacific . Moderated by Paul Govind, Dina Lupin and Surya Deva	Participation, Power, and the Pacific: Protecting Environmental Human Rights Defenders.
27 July 2023	Macquarie University Environmental Law Research Centre, the GNHRE, Southampton Law School and the OHCHR for the Pacific . Moderated by Paul Govind, Dina Lupin and Miguel Frolich (GNHRE and UQ)	Human Rights and the Environment