“Environmental Law and Responsibilities in the Anthropocene”
9-11 February 2022
Conference ProgrammeWelcome to the 8th Frontiers inEnvironmental Law Colloquium
9-11 February 2022

Zoom links:
Day 1: https://macquarie.zoom.us/j/88351083540
Day 2: https://macquarie.zoom.us/j/85967266832
Day 3: https://macquarie.zoom.us/j/88668357122

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Welcome to the 8th Frontiers inEnvironmental Law Colloquium
9-11 February 2022
The Centre for Environmental Law, Macquarie University,
Australia, the New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law, theUniversity of Auckland and the Global Network for HumanRights and the Environment are delighted to welcome you to 8thFrontiers in Environmental Law Colloquium
Environmental Law and Responsibilities in the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene epoch confirms that humanity is the primary
driver of planetary change. The 8th Frontiers Colloquium
encourages participants to engage with a possible new frontier forenvironmental law: to consider what it might mean to shift theapproach of environmental law from ‘what we can get out of nature'
to ‘what we can and must do for it.’ Papers at this year’s Colloquium
contemplate how and whether environmental law, broadly defined,
sufficiently engages with responsibility in the context of
unprecedented global environmental change.

Register Here:
https://event.mq.edu.au/8th-frontiers-environmental-law/3

Acknowledgements
Organizing Committee
Paul Govind
Deputy Director, Centre for Environmental Law, Macquarie
UniversityDr Michelle Lim
Centre for Environmental Law, Macquarie University
Associate Professor Nengye Liu
Director, Centre for Environmental Law, Macquarie University
Professor Caroline Foster
Director, New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law, University ofAuckland
Technical Support
Sarah Vanderfield
Social Media Team
Nischala McDonnellThe Organizers would like to sincerely thank Kylie Perry and Fiona
Tan and Leanne Hunter (Director) from the Macquarie University
Events Team for their tremendous support.
@MacquarieCEL4

8th Frontiers in Environmental Law Colloquium
Environmental Law and Responsibilities in the Anthropocene
Day 1: Wednesday 9 February 2022
Day 1 Zoom link: https://macquarie.zoom.us/j/88351083540

TimeSessions

Speakers

8:45am (AEDT)Colloquium Opening

Welcome to Country – Dr Jo Rey-----10:45am (NZ); 8:15am (SthOz); 7:45am (Qld); 5:45am(WA/Msia); 3:15am (India);1:45am (Mauritius)
Tuesday: 10:45pm (CET);
9:45pm (UK)9am – 11am (AEDT)

Session 1: Reconceptualising rights for the benefit of nature------

Chair: Paul Govind

11am (NZ); 8:30am (SthOz); 8am (Qld); 6am(WA/Msia); 3:30am (India);
2am (Mauritius)

Topic: ‘Earth trusteeship and its future contribution
to environmental law and planetary governance’

Justin Sobion

Topic: ‘Complementary or contradictory: acollective or individual human rights approach toclimate change’

Jolein Holtz

Topic: ‘The necessary resumption of the Action
Plan for the Prevention and Control ofDeforestation in the Legal Amazon as a way topromote climate justice’

Ana Flávia Corleto and Heline
Sivini Ferreira

Topic: ‘A Law for the Anthropocene? Justice andecological sensitivity in the case of Lagoa daConceição’José Rubens Morato Leite, Patryck
de Araújo Ayala, Mariana Carvalho
Victor Coelho

Topic: Environmental Conflicts and EcologicalLaw in Brazil: challenges and issues

Letícia Albuquerque, Isabele B.
Barbieri, Gabrielle T. Fagunez,
Marcelo P. Mosmann

Tuesday:11pm (CET);
10pm (UK)11:30am – 1pm (AEDT)

Session 2: Global law and the challenges of the Anthropocene------

Chair: Ethan Beringen

1:30pm (NZ); 11:00am (SthOz); 10:30am (Qld);
8:30am (WA/Msia); 6:00am(India); 4:30am (Mauritius);
1am (CET); 12am (UK)

Topic: ‘New Norms at the Frontiers ofInternational Environmental Law’

Injy Johnstone

Topic: ‘Generating respect for the laws of war andprotecting the natural environment: a Common

Eve Massingham
6Article 1 perspective’
Topic: China and International Environmental
Law: balancing rights and obligations

Nengye Liu

Topic: TWAIL and the Duty to Cooperate inInternational Environmental Law: Stories ofResistance, Discretion and Social Justice’

Adithya Anil Variath

3-4:30pm (AEDT)

Session 3: Interrogating anthropocentrism in environmental law------

Chair: Asanka Amitharansy Edirisinghe

5pm (NZ); 2:30pm (SthOz); 2pm (Qld); 12pm(WA/Msia); 9:30am (India);
8am (Mauritius); 5 am(CET); 4am (UK)

Topic: ‘Te Ora a Ururoa: Learning from the mahiof kaitiaki’

Marama Muru-Lanning, Keri Mills,Ngahuia Harrison, Gerald Lanning,
Charmaine Tukiri

Topic: Why biodiversity offsetting is inimical to theethic of responsibility in environmental law

Paul GovindTopic: ‘New Approach to Land and Seascape
Stewardship’

Nelson Quinn

Topic: ‘Ecosystems Republics: Reimagining
Governance for Sustainability’

Nupur Chowdhury

6-7:30pm (AEDT)

Session 4: Symptoms and solutions in a hyperconnected world------

Chair: Caroline Foster

8pm (NZ); 5:30pm (SthOz); 5pm (Qld); 3pm(WA/Msia); 12:30pm(India); 11am (Mauritius);
8 am (CET); 7am (UK)

Topic: ‘Pandemic Risk Management using a
Multidisciplinary One Health Approach toGovernance: An Australian Case Study’Katie Woolaston et al.

Topic: ‘Assessing the Effectiveness ofInternational Environmental Law in Implementing
the United Nations Sustainable Development
Goals in the wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic’Anuja Manjari Devi Issuree,
Krishnee Adnarain Appadoo

Topic: ‘Eco-Anxiety and the Law: Harnessing andTriaging for the Future’

Siti Hafsyah Idris & Noor Jannah
Nasution

Topic: ‘Responding to the Anthropocene – caninternational law address global concerns?’

Karen Morrow

8pm – 9:45pm (AEDT)

Opening Keynote Panel: Decolonising Environmental Law------

Chair: Associate Professor Nengye Liu, Director, Centre for Environmental Law,Macquarie University

10pm (NZ); 7:30pm (SthOz); 7pm (Qld); 5pm(WA/Msia); 2:30pm (India);
1pm (Mauritius); 10 am(CET); 9am (UK)

Panellists:•••

Dr Jo Anne Rey (Macquarie University)
Professor Mindy Chen-Wishart (Oxford University)
Dr Dina Lupin (Global Network on Human Rights and the Environment(GNHRE))

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Day 2: Thursday 10 February 2022
Day 2 Zoom link: https://macquarie.zoom.us/j/85967266832

TimeSessionsSpeakers

9 – 10:30am (AEDT)

Session 5: Reframing human-nature relationships in environmental law-----

Chair: Alice Bleby

11am (NZ); 8:30am (SthOz); 8am (Qld); 6am(WA/Msia); 3:30am (India);
2am (Mauritius)

Topic: ‘A new principle on ecological restoration torestore ecosystems and human-nature relationships
in the Anthropocene’

An Cliquet, Anastasia Telesetsky& Afshin Akhtar-Khavari

Wednesday:11pm (CET);
10pm (UK)

Topic: ‘Property Rights and Shadowlands’

Nicole Graham

Topic: ‘Ecosystem services in the Anthropocene’

Justine Bell-James

Topic: ‘Multi-species responsibility and responseability in hyperconnected times’

Michelle Lim

11am-1pm (AEDT)

Session 6: Law, responsibility and the biodiversity-climate-society nexus-------

Chair: Nengye Liu

1pm (NZ); 10:30am (SthOz); 10am (Qld); 8am(WA/Msia); 5:30am (India);
4am (Mauritius); 1am(CET); 12am (UK)

Topic: ‘Taking the law towards net zero – theregulation of negative emission technologies inAustralia’

Jan McDonald, Kerryn Brent, Jeff
McGee, Phillipa McCormack

Topic: From climate risk governance to corporate
climate responsibility: the role of private climate
regulation’Anita Foerster and Michael
Spencer

Topic: ‘Not about us but with us: mini-publics andintergenerational climate justice’

Nicky van Dijk

Topic: ‘Can nature-based solutions to climatechange catalyse coastal ecosystem conservation?
A case study of Indo-Pacific SIDS’

Erika Techera

Topic: ‘Nature-based Solutions as key to strengthen
climate-biodiversity nexus under the Anthropocene
in the Polar Region?’

Hitomi Kimura

3-4:30pm (AEDT)

Session 7: Roundtable – Lawyering and legal education in the Anthropocene--------

Chair: Prue Taylor

5pm (NZ); 2:30pm (SthOz); 2pm (Qld); 12pm(WA/Msia); 9:30am (India);
8am (Mauritius); 5 am(CET); 4am (UK)

Topic: ’The professional responsibility of lawyers inthe Anthropocene - evolving issues for statutory
authorities in environmental protection and Natural
resources management’

Jennifer McKay

Topic: ‘Environmental Lawyering in theAnthropocene: How can the climate crisis transform
environmental lawyering in India’

Arpitha Kodiveri

Panellists: Anita Foerster, Phillipa McCormack, Michelle Lim
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Day 3 Zoom link: https://macquarie.zoom.us/j/88668357122

TimeSessions

9 –10.30am (AEDT)

Session 8: Desirable Futures in the Anthropocene-----Chair: Michelle Lim

11am (NZ); 8:30am (SthOz); 8am (Qld); 6am(WA/Msia); 3:30am (India);
2am (Mauritius)
Thursday:11pm (CET);
10pm (UK)

Speakers

Bethan Sloan and Zen Makuch
Topic: ‘Designing Regulatory Scenarios to Promote
Carbon Reductions for Large Point Source
Polluters’
Topic: ‘Collaborative modelling and participatorywater governance: design principles and framework
for co-production’
Topic: Beyond Sustainability: RegulatingRegenerative Economies

Cameron Holley, Juan CastillaRho, Darren Sinclair, Carley
Bartlett and Rodrigo Rojas,Bronwen Morgan
Phillipa McCormack

Topic: ‘Biodiversity and bushfires in the(Anthropo)Pyrocene: what can our laws do tofacilitate climate adaptation when everything feels
like it’s falling apart?’
11am-12:30pm (AEDT)

Session 9: Oceans in the Anthropocene-------

Chair: Julian Chen Jiliang

1pm (NZ); 10:30am (SthOz); 10am (Qld); 8am(WA/Msia); 5:30am (India);
4am (Mauritius); 1am(CET); 12am (UK)

Topic: ‘The Three Eras of Australian Practice onMarine Protected Areas: The Interaction between
National and International Law and Policy’

Ethan Beringen, Nengye Liu,Michelle Lim

Topic: ‘Blue Carbon Mitigation Opportunities for
Aotearoa’

Madeleine Pears

Topic: ‘Governing marine cloud brightening:
challenges and recommendations’

Rose Foster, Nicole Shumway,
Pedro Fidelman

3-4:30pm (AEDT)-----5pm (NZ); 2:30pm (SthOz); 2pm (Qld); 12pm(WA/Msia); 9:30am (India);
8am (Mauritius); 5 am(CET); 4am (UK)

Topic: ‘Governing the technologies of theJan McDonald, Kerryn Brent, Jeff
Anthropocene: marine cloud brightening on theMcGee & Manon Simon
Great Barrier Reef’
Session 10: Challenging Western constructs of nature in environmental regulation
Chair: Peter Davies
Topic: ‘Access to justice through the Indigenous
Navigator Program’

Judith Preston

Topic: Kaitiakitanga and Mātauranga Māori Kia
kāwatawata ki tai, Kia pūangiangi ki pūaha - Gentle
zephyrs caress the seas, Refreshing breezes tocool the harbours’

Marama Muru-Lanning, Keri Mills,Ngahuia Harrison, GeraldLanning, Charmaine Tukiri

Topic: ‘Sustainability and Indigeneity’

Trevor Daya-Winterbottom
9Topic: ‘Taking the Trails They Left: A Proposal toRevive Eco-Centrism in Sri Lanka’
5pm – 6.30pm (AEDT)--------7pm (NZ); 4:30pm (SthOz); 4pm (Qld); 2pm(WA/Msia); 11:30am(India); 10am (Mauritius);
7 am (CET); 6am (UK)

Asanka Amitharansy Edirisinghe

Closing Plenary Panel: “Future Directions for Responsibility in Environmental
Law”
Chair: Paul Govind, Deputy Director, Centre for Environmental Law, Macquarie
University
Panellists:•••Dr Sophie Chao (University of Sydney)
Professor Klaus Bosselmann (University of Auckland)
Associate Professor Peter Burdon (University of Adelaide)10

Keynote Presenters
Opening Keynote Panel: Decolonising Environmental Law
Dr Jo Rey, Macquarie University
Dr Jo Anne Rey is a Dharug Aboriginal community member, through her DharugRandall- lineage
In 2019, Jo completed her doctoral thesis: Country Tracking Voices: Dharug women’s
perspectives on presences, places, and practices at Macquarie University.
Based on her research, in 2018 she was invited to develop a first-year undergraduate
unit within the Macquarie University Indigenous Studies department. This local
Aboriginal community focus was a first in Australia.In 2020, Jo became a Research Fellow with Macquarie University’s Indigenous and Geography Departments, weaving
post-doctoral Dharug research across three Dharug sites: Shaw’s Creek Aboriginal site, Blacktown Native Institutionand Brown’s Waterhole, in the Lane Cove National Park.
In 2021, she and Dharug women collectively, were invited by the NSW Department of Planning, Industry andEnvironment to lead a Women’s Cultural Burn at Brown’s Waterhole. This will be historic when undertaken, as it will be
the first time since colonisation that a Dharug-led women’s cultural burn has been government approved andfacilitated.

Professor Mindy Chen-Wishart, Oxford University
Mindy Chen-Wishart is Dean of Law and Professor of the Law of Contract at Oxford
University. She is also the Fellow in Law at Merton College.
She holds a fractional professorship at the National University of Singapore and holds or
has held visiting professorships at Hong Kong University, the National University ofTaiwan, Otago University, Auckland University, Canterbury University, Gottingen
University, Thammasat University and Renmin University in Beijing.
She is author of Contract Law (7th ed, OUP, 2022), an editor of Chitty onContracts (34th ed), and was a member of the Advisory Group on A Restatement of theLaw of Contract in English and Wales. Mindy has lectured to the Judicial College ofEngland and Wales and the Judicial Academy in Taiwan and Hong Kong. She delivered the Fourth Annual Lecture of
the International and Comparative Law Quarterly as author of the best paper.
Mindy is leading a six-book project on the contract laws of 14 Asian jurisdictions, of which three are published and thefourth in production. She was born in Taiwan and lived in NZ for 21 years.

Dr Dina Lupin, Global Network on Human Rights and the Environment
Dina Lupin is a legal theorist working in feminist, queer and decolonial philosophy. In her
current research, she examines the ways in which Indigenous communities are subjected
to practices of silencing and epistemic injustice in consultation processes, and in the ways
in which these communities resist and subvert oppressive practices.
Dina is the Director of the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment. She iscurrently based at the University of Vienna and will be joining the faculty of Southampton
Law School in March 2022.

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Closing Plenary Panel: Future Directions for Responsibility in EnvironmentalLaw
Dr Sophie Chao, University of Sydney
Dr Sophie Chao is Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) Fellow andLecturer at the Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney. Her research
investigates the intersections of Indigeneity, ecology, capitalism, health, and justicein the Pacific.
Sophie is author of In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings inWest Papua, which received the Duke University Press Scholars of Color FirstBook Award in 2021 and is forthcoming with Duke University Press in July 2022.
She is also co-editor of The Promise of Multispecies Justice with Eben Kirksey andKarin Bolender, forthcoming with Duke University Press in November 2022. Chaopreviously worked for the human rights organization Forest Peoples Programme inIndonesia, supporting the rights of forest-dwelling Indigenous peoples to theircustomary lands, resources, and livelihoods.
For more information about Sophie’s research, please visit morethanhumanworlds.com.

Prof Klaus Bosselmann, University of Auckland
Dr Klaus Bosselmann is Professor of Environmental Law and Founding Director of
the New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law at the University of Auckland.
Among his current leadership roles are Chair of the Ecological Law andGovernance Association (ELGA) elgaworld.org, Chair of the Earth Trusteeship
Initiative (ETI) earthtrusteeship.world and Co-Chair of the Global Ecological
Integrity Group (GEIG) globalecointegrity.org.
Klaus has authored 15 books (with translations into multiple languages) in theareas of international environmental law, eco-constitutionalism and legal theory.
For his pioneering work on ecological law and Earth jurisprudence he received
numerous awards including the Inaugural Senior Scholarship Prize of the IUCN
Academy of Environmental Law and the 2021 Carlowitz Sustainability Award.

Associate Professor Peter Burdon, University of Adelaide
Peter Burdon is Deputy Dean of the Adelaide Law School and Deputy Dean
(Learning and Teaching) of the Faculty of Professions.
Peter's research uses interdisciplinary materials from sociology, political science,economics, philosophy, history and environmental studies. Peter is an expert inenvironmental theory and has written and edited books on Earth Jurisprudence andEarth Democracy. In 2017 he published a book on Hannah Arendt and the trial ofNazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann.
He is currently working on a handbook and monograph on the Anthropocene. Bothof which will be published by Routledge in 2022.

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