Honorary Adjunct Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Bond University. Adjunct Lecturer, School of Law, University of Tasmania, University of Tasmania
Dr Meg Good BA/LLB (Hons I), GDLP, PhD is an Honorary Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law Bond University and an Adjunct Lecturer at the School of Law University of Tasmania.
Meg is also the Head of Programs and Legal Counsel and a founding member at the Australian Alliance for Animals based in Sydney. She was formerly the Senior Program Manager & Legal Counsel at Voiceless, the animal protection institute where she continues as Legal Counsel. Prior to her time at Voiceless, Meg was a sessional academic at the University of Tasmania teaching across nineteen Arts and Law units. She coordinated the UTAS Animal Law unit and most recently assisted with the Macquarie University Animal Law course. Meg has held senior positions with various animal law organisations, including the Barristers Animal Welfare Panel and the Animal Law Institute. She is currently the Secretary of the Australasian Animal Law Teachers’ and Researchers’ Association which she assisted in founding.
In 2016, Meg completed a PhD thesis in law exploring and recommending legal recognition of the human right to a healthy environment in Australia.
Adjunct Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania.
2022–present
Tutor, Animal Law, Macquarie University Law School
2022–present
Honorary Adjunct Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Bond University.
2021–present
Head of Programs and Legal Counsel, Australian Alliance for Animals
2020–present
Legal Counsel, Voiceless, the animal protection institute
2020–2022
Senior Program Manager and Legal Counsel, Voiceless, the animal protection institute
2017–2020
Animal Law and Education Manager, Voiceless, the animal protection institute
2011–2016
Sessional Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania.
2016–2016
Teaching Associate, Faculty of Law, Monash University.
Education
Law Society of NSW, Australian Practising Certificate
College of Law , Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice
2016
University of Tasmania, PhD
2016
University of Tasmania, Graduate Certificate in Research
2010
University of Tasmania, BA LLB (1st Class Hons)
Publications
2022
Key animal law in Australia (Book Chapter Co-Authored), Routledge Handbook of Animal Welfare
2021
Book Review: Erin O’Donnell, Legal Rights for Rivers: Competition, Collaboration and Water Governance, Journal of Human Rights and the Environment
2018
Could Queensland be the first Australian jurisdiction to recognise the fundamental human right to a healthy environment?, Australian Environment Review
2017
Editor 's Note - Animal Law Education, Legal Education Review
2017
Legal recognition of the human right to a healthy environment in Australia: useful, redundant or dangerous? (Book Chapter), E Daly, L Kotze, J May, C Soyapi, A Kreilhuber, L Ognibene and A Kariuki (eds) New Frontiers in Environmental Constitutionalism, UNEP.
2014
Implications for the Law on Standing: Animals’ Angels e.V. v. Secretary, Dept. of Agriculture [2014] FCAFC 173., Australian Animal Protection Law Journal
2014
Water pollution treated seriously, or seriously in need of treatment?, Precedent
2013
Wild Law Conference 2013., National Environmental Law Review
2013
Enhancing the knowledge-governance interface: coasts, climate and collaboration (Multiple Authors), Ocean & Coastal Management
2013
The River as a legal person: Evaluating nature rights approaches to environmental protection in Australia., National Environmental Law Review
2011
Implementing the Human Right to Water in Australia., University of Tasmania Law Review
Professional Memberships
Member of the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment
Secretary of the Australasian Animal Law Teachers' and Researchers' Association