In Melbourne Australia
Friday 17 August 2012, 9am – 4.30pm The Australian Wild Law Alliance (AWLA) and Environmental Defender’s Office (Vic), invite you to a one day workshop that explores what Wild Law is and what it might offer modern environmental law. This is the first workshop in the ‘AWLA Roadshow’ series, which will see AWLA travel to each State and Territory during 2012 and 2013, to open up spaces for discussion and action relating to Wild Law and Earth Jurisprudence. This workshop will be of interest to legal practitioners, academics, regulators, policy makers, activists, students and interested members of the community. 60L Green Building, Ground Floor Meeting Rooms, 60 Leicester Street, Carlton. $20 per person for the full day event Register and Purchase ticketThe program
An introduction to earth jurisprudence- Michelle Maloney, convenor of the Australian Wild Law Alliance, on the Alliance, and global networks and organisations.
- An introduction to Wild Law by Peter Burdon.
- The Earth Laws Network – Alex Pelizzon.
- Rights of nature and global activism – Peter Burdon
- Living within the limits of the natural world – Michelle Maloney
- Indigenous and cross cultural perspectives – Alex Pelizzon
- Samuel Alexander, Simplicity Collective – Earth Jurisprudence and stepping outside the growth model.
- Erin O’Donell, Melbourne University Law School – The environment’s right to water – the environmental water reserve and the environmental water holder
- Mick Power, EDO mining law expert, – If not “sustainable mining” then what?
- Julia Dehm, Melbourne University Law School – Nature as ‘natural capital’ in the Rio +20 ‘green growth’ paradigm – problems with the economic reductionist understanding of nature.
- Felicity Millner, EDO Principal Solicitor – Do trees need standing anyway? Developments and issues with the rights to defend and protect nature in the courts.