Legal responses to heat and climate justice panel, featuring Jack McLean (HRLC), Michaela Kroemer (Müllner v. Austria), Elisabeth Stern (KlimaSeniorinnen)...

Legal responses to heat and climate justice panel, featuring Jack McLean (HRLC), Michaela Kroemer (Müllner v. Austria), Elisabeth Stern (KlimaSeniorinnen)...

Abstract. This article interrogates water theft in Australia as a lens through which to explore the ‘carceral creep’ in environmental governance. Situating

Climate change represents one of the most significant global challenges of our time, with far-reaching implications for environmental sustainability, economic development, public health, and social ju...

A Paris court on Thursday ruled that French oil major TotalEnergies must disclose the climate ​risks linked ‌to emissions from its oil and gas products and set out plans ⁠to address them. The ruling i...

In this episode, Mihnea Tănăsescu joins us to discuss his groundbreaking research on Ecocene Politics. Mihnea reflects on how we can conceptualise human relationships with nature, with particular atte...

In this episode, Associate Professor Erin O'Donnell (U Melbourne) joins us as a guest co-host to chat with us about the perils, pitfalls, and promise of researching in the burgeoning field of rights o...

In this episode, Associate Professor Erin O'Donnell (U Melbourne) joins us as a guest co-host to chat with us about the perils, pitfalls, and promise of researching in the burgeoning field of rights o...

Australia’s highest court is hearing its first climate change case this week in what experts say is a “watershed moment” for Australians living through worsening climate impacts and for climate law in...

We have big news - our High Court date has been set for 13 May.

This talk examines how small states use international law to mobilise legitimacy and reshape the normative environment, and asks whether these strategies retain force in a fragmented world.

In the first High Court of Australia hearing on climate change, Johnson Legal is acting for DAMSHEG defending the landmark decision of the NSW Court of Appeal in Denman v MACH Energy. The Court found ...

Water Alternatives | A journal on water, politics and development. Water Alternatives: An interdisciplinary ejournal on water, politics and development

In this episode we are joined by lawyer and activist Pía Weber Salazar who discusses her collective work securing legal protections for free flowing rivers in Chile. Pía explains how communities and a...

Cristy will discuss her recent book, Legal Geographies of Water, which explores community and policy responses to the global water crisis.

In this episode, Cristy and Liz share Part One of their LSAANZ Conference special on Relationality and Reciprocity.  The episode brings highlights from the December 2025 Law and Society Associati...

Cristy will discuss her recent book, Legal Geographies of Water, which explores community and policy responses to the global water crisis.

In this conversation, César Rodríguez-Garavito (NYU Law) reflects on his fascinating academic career, explaining his drive to produce 'action research' that enables a positive impact for communities a...

In this conversation, César Rodríguez-Garavito (NYU Law) reflects on his fascinating academic career, explaining his drive to produce 'action research' that enables a positive impact for communities a...

In this episode of Called to the Bar: International Law Over Drinks, host Dr Ntina Tzouvala (UNSW Sydney) is joined by Dr Julia Dehm (La Trobe Law School) and Dr Cristy Clark (University of Canberra)

In this episode of Law at the End of the World, we kick off our new ‘Research Skills Series’. In this first installment, Liz shares her extensive experience of obtaining and administering research fun...

In this episode we are joined by critical environmental law scholar Emily Jones to explore the intersections of environmental law, feminism, and academia. Emily discusses her personal journey into aca...

Our guest for this episode is Alessandro Pelizzon, legal academic and author of Ecological Jurisprudence: The Law of Nature and the Nature of Law. We discuss the evolution of ecological jurisprudence,...

London assembly committee says move will increase cleanliness of waterways and offer more access to outdoors Ten new wild swimming locations should be created in London, a report from the London assembly has said, to boost cleanliness of the capital’s waterways and increase access to the outdoors. Other cities are cleaning up their rivers for swimming: Paris has opened a swimming site in the Seine in the city centre and Chicago is running its first river swim in almost a century. Continue reading...

In this episode, Cristy Clark and Elizabeth Macpherson explore the intersections of climate change with the rights of children, future generations, and to care, as well as the question of how to have ...

In this episode of 'Law at the End of the World', hosts Elizabeth Macpherson and Cristy Clark interview Dr Erin O'Donnell, water law expert and author of 'Legal Rights for Rivers', about her journey f...