Fields of Research

Environmental law
International criminal law
International relations
International and comparative law
Climate change law
Environmental politics
Environment policy
Environmental and resources law
Chemical oceanography
Legal practice, lawyering and the legal profession
Comparative government and politics
Space, maritime and aviation law
International trade and investment law
Fisheries management
Climate change processes
Public international law
Australian government and politics
Conservation and biodiversity
Environmental philosophy
Environmental management
Other language, communication and culture
Public law
Climate change impacts and adaptation
Climate change science
Economic development policy
Legal ethics
Physical oceanography
Defence studies
Legal theory, jurisprudence and legal interpretation
Australian history
Public policy
Epistemology
Research, science and technology policy
Law and society and socio-legal research
Natural resource management

Research Objectives

Climate change adaptation measures (excl. ecosystem)
Environmental policy, legislation and standards
Climate change mitigation strategies
Expanding knowledge in law and legal studies
International organisations
Understanding climate change
Management of Antarctic and Southern Ocean environments
International relations
Defence and security policy
Assessment and management of Antarctic and Southern Ocean ecosystems
Defence
International political economy (excl. international trade)
Government and politics
Measurement and assessment of marine water quality and condition
Other culture and society
Institutional arrangements
Biodiversity in Antarctic and Southern Ocean environments
Community services
Protection and conservation of Antarctic and Southern Ocean environments
Social impacts of climate change and variability
Climate variability (excl. social impacts)
Multicultural services
Marine biodiversity
Civil justice
Hydrogen production from renewable energy
Other environmental policy, climate change and natural hazards
Wild caught fin fish (excl. tuna)
Justice and the law
Ecosystem adaptation to climate change
Fisheries - wild caught
Public services policy advice and analysis
Legal processes
Intelligence, surveillance and space
Other law, politics and community services
Expanding knowledge in history, heritage and archaeology

Career Best Publications

Research Publications

A bridge over troubled waters? Can a regional insurance mechanism play a viable role in enhancing resilience to slow onset climate change impacts?; International Studies Association's 56th Annual Convention
A Bridge Over Troubled Waters? Can a Regional Insurance Mechanism play a Viable Role in Enhancing Resilience to Slow Onset Climate Change Impacts?; Frontiers of Environmental Law Colloquium
A universal human right to shape responses to a global problem? The role of self-determination in guiding the international legal response to climate change; Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law
AFCIG Submission on Draft Policy on Great Barrier Reef Interventions
All Eyes On Antarctica: ATCM XLIV; Australian Outlook
All-weather runway in Antarctica a ‘strategic imperative’
All-weather runway in Antarctica a ‘strategic imperative’
Antarctic geopolitics: emerging cracks in the ice?; Georgetown Journal of International Affairs
Antarctic governance in a climate changed world; Australian Journal of Maritime & Ocean Affairs
Antarctica and the Southern Ocean: insights from the 2022 IPCC WGII report
Antarctica looking forward; Anthropocene Antarctica: Perspectives from the Humanities, Law and Social Sciences
Anthropocene Antarctica: Approaches, issues and debates; Anthropocene Antarctica: Perspectives from the Humanities, Law and Social Sciences
Anthropocene Antarctica: Perspectives from the Humanities, Law and Social Sciences; Routledge
Asia-Pacific Ecological Modernisation: An Emerging Governance Strategy for the International Climate Regime?; Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
Associational balance of power and the possibilities for international law in the South China Sea; Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy
Australia has long valued an outer space shared by all. Mining profits could change this
Australia-China relations in the frozen south
Australian Climate Change Law: The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same?; Carbon and Climate Law Review
Big fishing: the role of the large-scale commercial fishing industry in achieving Sustainable Development Goal 14; Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
Blue COP parties should look to Antarctic Blue Carbon for vision of non-market cooperative approach to emission reduction
Book review: 'Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations: Processes of Creative Self-Destruction'; Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law
Book review: 'Climate Justice and Disaster Law'; Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law
Book review: 'What’s Wrong with Climate Politics and How to Fix It'; Carbon and Climate Law Review
Book review: The governance of solar geoengineering: managing climate change in the anthropocene
Briefing Paper: Exploring Renewable Hydrogen for Tasmania
Can a regional insurance mechanism enhance resilience to slow onset impacts of climate change?; University of Tasmania Law Review
Can geoengineering help poor countries fight climate change? Interview with James Griffiths
Carbon dioxide removal geoengineering; Australian Law Journal
Clearing the air: avoiding conflicts of interest within the United Nations Framework Convention on climate change; Journal of Environmental Law
Climate Governance after Copenhagen: The Rise of Voluntary Pledge Review as the End of Redistributive Multilateralism?; Annual Convention of the International Studies Association
Climate Intervention and National Security: The Australian Context
Contesting the Home for Global Climate Governance: When Power Supersedes Legitimacy in Minilateral Forums; International Workshop on The Fragmentation of Global Environmental Governance: Causes, Consequences and Responses
Cooperative Governance of Economic Enterprises; One Contribution towards Challenging the Growth Imperative?; Governance for Green Growth? Australian National University Climate and Environmental Governance Network Workshop
Cooperative governance: one pathway to a stable-state economy; Environmental Politics
Cyclone Pam: the Pacific needs a climate insurance scheme
Does the “No-Harm’Rule” Have a Role in Preventing Transboundary Harm and Harm to the Global Atmospheric Commons from Geoengineering?; Climate Law
Enhancing resilience and justice in climate adaptation laws; Transnational Environmental Law
Enhancing the weather: governance of weather modification activities in Australia; Environmental and Planning Law Journal
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Standing) Bill 2015 Submission 60
Exclusive Minilateralism: An Emerging Discourse within International Climate Change Governance; Democratizing Climate Governance Conference
Exclusive Minilateralism: An Emerging Discourse within International Climate Change Governance?; Portal: journal of multidisciplinary international studies
Explicit targets and cooperation: regional fisheries management organizations and the sustainable development goals; International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics
Factors influencing the performance of regional fisheries management organizations; Marine Policy
Fishing around the South Georgia Islands and the 'Question of the Falklands/Malvinas': unprecedented challenges for the Antarctic treaty system; Marine Policy: The International Journal of Ocean Affairs
Framing Australian Antarctic policy: the 20-year Antarctic plan and beyond; Australian Journal of Maritime & Ocean Affairs
Frozen Eden lost? Exploring discourses of geoengineering Antarctica; Anthropocene Antarctica; Perspectives from the Humanities, Law and Social Sciences
Gamechanger: Australian leadership for all-season air access to Antarctica
Geoengineering the Great Barrier Reef needs strong rules
Geoengineering the oceans: an emerging frontier in international climate change governance; Australian Journal of Maritime and Ocean Affairs
Glacier geoengineering needs lawyers too; Nature
Global climate governance between hard and soft law: can the Paris Agreement’s ‘Crème Brûlée’ approach enhance ecological reflexivity?; Journal of Environmental Law
Governance of Marine Geoengineering
Governing geoengineering research for the Great Barrier Reef; Climate Policy
Honorable Mention - JEL Richard Macrory Prize for best article of the year in the Oxford Journal of Environmental Law: Global climate governance between hard and soft law: can the Paris agreement’s Crème Brûlée’ approach enhance ecological reflexivity?
Honorable Mention - JEL Richard Macrory Prize for best article of the year in the Oxford Journal of Environmental Law: The Copenhagen Turn in Global Climate Governance and the Contentious History of Differentiation in International Law
International governance of solar radiation management: does the ENMOD Convention deserve a closer look?; Carbon and Climate Law Review
International law poses problems for negative emissions research; Nature Climate Change
Lawfare, standing and environmental discourse: a phronetic analysis; University of Tasmania Law Review
Legitimacy in an Era of Fragmentation: The Case of Global Climate Governance; Global Environmental Politics
Making the case for the controversial Davis Aerodrome in East Antarctica
Marine Geoengineering Symposium
Marine plastic pollution in the polar south: responses from Antarctic Treaty System; Polar Record
Marine protected areas: a spark for contestation over ‘rational use’ of Antarctic marine living resources in the Southern Ocean?; Australian Journal of Maritime & Ocean Affairs
Minilateralism; Research Handbook on Climate Governance
Minilateralism: An Emerging Discourse within International Climate Change Governance?; Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
Negative emissions and geoengineering technologies: an emerging challenge for international and domestic legal systems; O Estado Regulador no Cenario Ambiental
Neoliberalism and International Climate Change Policy: Australia, the United States and the Asia Pacific Partnership; Australian Political Studies Association, Annual Conference
Oceans and coasts in the era of Anthropogenic climate change; Research Handbook on Climate Change, Oceans and Coasts
Perspective: increasing blue carbon around Antarctica is an ecosystem service of considerable societal and economic value worth protecting; Global Change Biology
Philosophy of science and legal disputes over whaling in the Southern Ocean; Philosophies of Polar Law
Phronetic legal inquiry : an effective design for law and society research?; Griffith Law Review
Position analysis: ocean fertilisation
Position Analysis: Ocean Fertilisation
Postscript: governance for climate change, oceans and coasts in a post-COVID-19 world; Research Handbook on Climate Change, Oceans and Coasts
Power and Legitimacy Dynamics in the Fragmentation of Global Climate Governance’ in Semi-Plenary VII The Institutional Fragmentation of Global Environmental Governance; Earth System Governance Tokyo Conference: Complex Architectures: Multiple Agents
Protecting Antarctic blue carbon: as marine ice retreats can the law fill the gap?; Climate Policy
Protecting Antarctica’s coastal blue carbon: a case for international cooperation; Research Handbook on Climate Change, Oceans and Coasts
Putting the Great Barrier Reef marine cloud brightening experiment into context
Quad maritime security initiative holds promise for the Indo-Pacific's southern flank; Australian Strategic Policy Institute
Rediscovering law students as citizens: Critical thinking and the public value of legal education; Alternative Law Journal
Rediscovering the importance of Antarctic Law for the early twenty-first century; Australian Journal of International Affairs
Regional fisheries management organizations and the new biodiversity agreement: challenge or opportunity?; Fish and Fisheries
Regional fisheries organizations and sustainable development goals 13 and 14: insights from stakeholders; Fisheries Research
Research Handbook on Climate Change, Oceans and Coasts; Edward Elgar Publishing
Review of ‘On Environmental Governance; Sustainability, Efficiency and Equity’ by Oran R. Young
Scientific whaling and how philosophy of science can help break the international deadlock; Australian Journal of International Affairs
Space resources: For an exclusive few? Or for all?
SRM Geoengineering and Liability for Damage to the Global Atmospheric Commons; Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law Annual Conference
Strengthening International Community: The Missing Link in the Effectiveness of International Environmental Regimes?; 2014 Norwich Conference on Earth System Governance: Access and Allocation in the Anthropocene
Talking Point: Protecting whales is a tricky task
Technology Transfer in International Climate Change Governance: From Green Governmentality to Deregulatory Ecological Modernisation and Beyond?; Annual Convention of the International Studies Association
Technology Transfer Institutions in Global Climate Governance: The Tension between Equity Principles and Market Allocation; Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law
The 60th Anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty System: Interview with Luke Slattery
The 60th Anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty System: Interview with Polar Geopolitics podcast
The Antarctic Treaty System in 2021: important anniversaries but challenges for consensus decision-making; Polar Perspectives
The Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate: A Retreat from the Principle of Common but Differentiated Responsibilities?; McGill International Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy
The Asia-Pacic partnership and market-liberal discourse in global climate governance; International Journal of Law in Context
The Asia-Pacific Partnership and United States International Climate Change Policy; Colorado Natural Resources, Energy & Environmental Law Review
The Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate; A Complement or Competitor to the Kyoto Protocol?; Global Change, Peace & Security
The Asia-Pacific Partnership: A Deepened Market Liberal Model for the International Climate Regime?; Environmental Discourses in International and Domestic Law, Connecting International and Public Law
The Asia-Pacific Partnership: A Deepened Market Liberal Model for the International Climate Regime?; Environmental Discourses in Public and International Law
The Asia-Pacific Partnership: Implementation Challenges and Interplay with Kyoto; Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
The challenges for antarctic governance in the early twenty-first century; Australian Journal of Maritime & Ocean Affairs
The Copenhagen turn in global climate governance and the contentious history of differentiation in international law; Journal of Environmental Law
The Future of Antarctica: Sam Bateman's Contribution to Antarctic Geopolitics; Maritime Cooperation and Security in the Indo-Pacific Region
The Future of Antarctica: Scenarios from Classical Geopolitics; Springer
The future of ocean governance; Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
The governance of geoengineering: an emerging challenge for international and domestic legal systems?; Journal of Law, Information and Science
The Greening of Antarctica: Assembling an International Environment; The Australian Year Book of International Law
The impact of the US retreat from the Paris Agreement: Kyoto revisited?; Climate Policy
The influence of performance reviews on regional fisheries management organizations; ICES Journal of Marine Science
The influence of US Neoliberalism on International Climate Change Policy; Climate Innovation Liberal Capitalism and Climate Change
The potential of the no-harm’ rule to prevent transboundary harm and harm to the global atmospheric commons from SRM geoengineering; International Studies Association's 56th Annual Convention
The Regulation of Geoengineering: A Gathering Storm for International Climate Change Policy?; Air Quality and Climate Change
The Role of the Asia-Pacific Partnership in Discursive Contestation of the International Climate Regime; International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics
The Southern Ocean: Australian Interests, international collaboration and future challenges; Antarctic Forum
The Turn to Market Liberalism: The Asia-Pacific Partnership and Contestation over the Shape of the Post-2012 Climate Regime; International Studies Association, 50th Annual Convention
Turnbull And Abe Forgot To Discuss The Whale In The Room We need to be honest about our position on Japanese whaling if we want it to stop
United States Engagement with International Law: More Power than Principle? Review of Shirley Scott
Warming world, changing ocean: mitigation and adaptation to support resilient marine systems; Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
Wilderness protection in polar regions: arctic lessons learnt for the regulation and management of tourism in the Antarctic
Writing the Fine Print: Climate Risk Insurance for Pacific Island States; IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Annual Colloquium
Writing the Fine Print: Developing Regional Insurance for Climate Change Adaptation in the Pacific; Melbourne Journal of International Law
Writing the fine print: Effective climate risk insurance for Pacific Island States; Workshop on Climate Change Governance in the Asia-Pacific Region: Agency, Accountability and Adaptiveness
“Logrolling” in Antarctic governance: limits and opportunities; Polar Record

Research Projects

Regulating Plan B: Developing Legal Frameworks for Multiscale Governance of Geoengineering; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Australia and Korea in the Antarctic; Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
Creating a Unique Open Access Database on Antarctic Law and Governance; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Developing International Governance of Marine-Based Geoengineering; Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
Exploring China's Policy in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Geopolitical Change and the Antarctic Treaty System; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Governing solar radiation management research, development and deployment; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Hosting the Asia-Pacific Workshop on International Law, Climate Change, Oceans and Coasts ; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
How do we improve our understanding and commitment to 'science' in international agreements to protect the global; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Negative Emissions: Survey and Outlook; Department of Environment and Energy (Cwth) (DoEE)

Research Candidate Supervision