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Senior Lecturer in Law, Murdoch University

Before joining Murdoch University as a legal academic I worked in the private legal practice in Victoria and, as a public lawyer in WA. I was the inaugural solicitor at the Bunbury Community Legal Centre. I was admitted to practice as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria in 1990 and as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Western Australia in 1992.

I teach in both the Law and Legal Studies programmes in a range of subjects: LAW258 Australian Administrative Law; LEG153 Introduction to Administrative Law; LAW150 Australian Legal Systems; LAW152 Torts.

My research examines the significance of ‘crisis’ and ‘security’ in shaping the trajectory of environmental governance, focusing on how the law takes up non-legal ideas, knowledge and rhetoric to conceptualise and calculate the risks and legal responsibilities associated with global warming/climate change. While environment law is the principal focus of my research, I have also published on family law and the legal conceptualisation of young people.

I am currently working on a book, ‘Discourses of Environmental Law and the Shaping of Climate Law’ to be published by Routledge, which examines how the law takes up non-legal ideas, knowledge and rhetoric in the calculation of the risks and legal responsibilities associated with global warming/climate change.