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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.

UTAS Profile: http://www.utas.edu.au/profiles/staff/law/meg-good
Publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5945-4555

Experience

  • 2017–present
    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
  • Member of the Law Society of NSW