Public speaking: lectures, webinars, conferences
- "Reimagining Law and Governance in Australia: Greenprints", IUCN Conference, QUT, Brisbane, 22 July 2022
- "The ideas that lie beneath: Earth laws and Earth jurisprudence," Risk and Resilience Summit, Australian Government, Sydney, 29 June 2022
- "Earth jurisprudence and the work of AELA", Guest presentation to the Queensland Faith Communities Council, Brisbane, 22 June 2022
- "Ladauto Si, Earth laws and new economic frameworks," Guest presentation for the Catholic Religious Australia, Sydney, 24 May 2022
- “Earth laws, arts & creativity: the work of AELA”, online public lecture for Redline Arts Group, United Kingdom, 9 June 2021
- “Rights of Nature in Practice” – Workshop for the NSW Greens Conference, 9 May 2021
- Online Book launch - "From Environmental to Ecological Law" - (speaking in the recording from 1.08), February 2020
- Greenprints and bioregional governance', presentation as part of online forum "Our Place-Getting to Know Our Bioregion (Sunshine Coast), Saturday 18 April 2020
- Climate Justice Panel, online forum hosted by the Progressive Law Network and Monash University, 1 April 2020
- Bioregional Governance Public Lectures - Margaret River (2 October), Bunbury (3 October), Perth (5 October) Byron Bay (3 November) 2019
- 'Rights of Nature Laws Around the World: Perspectives from Australia and the Pacific', Public Seminar, IRD/SPREP, Noumea, New Caledonia, 26 June 2019
- Sustainability Round Table with Jane Goodall, Macquarie University Law School, 7 May 2019
- "Earth jurisprudence and building an Earth centred society," Presentation, St. Mary's in Exile, South Brisbane, 9 October 2018
- "Using the law for people and planet," Panel Discussion at UTS Law Students Association Conference, Ultimo, Sydney, 11 August 2018
- "Using law and regulation to challenge consumption and planned obsolescence", Zero Waste Forum, Winter Solstice Festival, Northey Street, 23 June 2018
- "The work of the Australian Earth Laws Alliance", Earth Trusteeship Conference, The Hague, 22 June (via internet)
- "A pathway to Earth centred, bio-regional governance: the GreenPrints approach", RenewFest, May 2018
- "Sustainability and Earth Centred Governance", Presentation to staff, St. Ignatius High School, Edmund Rice Network, Townsville 16 June 2018
- "Food systems and the 2018 Rights of Nature Tribunal", Transition Film Festival, Brisbane 23 March 2018
- 'How can we change the world?' Evening Seminar/Panel Discussion hosted by QUT Business School, also featuring Professor Will Steffen and Dr Richard Denniss at QUT Gardens Point, 31 August 2017
- 'Careers in Sustainability', University of Queensland, July 2017
- ‘Earth jurisprudence and environmental law – what’s in it for you?’ - Public lecture for Environmental Law Students Society, Barry University, Florida, 30 March 2015
- ‘The Precautionary Principle in theory and practice’ - Public lecture, Miami Dade University, 20 March 2015
- ‘Earth jurisprudence and the Precautionary Principle’ - Workshop delivered to Earth Ethics Institute, Miami Dade College, 20 March 2015
- 'Implementing Earth jurisprudence: The Work of the Australian Earth Laws Alliance', Guest lecture, California Institute for Integral Studies, San Francisco, 3 March 2015
- 'Wild Law and Earth jurisprudence', Sustainable Engineers, June 2012
- ‘Wild Law – An Introduction’ - Public Seminar at Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management, Brisbane, July 2011
Conferences, Webinars & Panel Discussions
- ‘Women's Climate Conversations 2021 #6 (August) Listening to First Nations knowledge to inform Earth-centred, collaborative governance’, webinar hosted by Women’s Climate Congress, 10 August 2021
- ‘Could Australian Politicians Soon Be Prosecuted For Ecocide?’, Webinar hosted by the Green Institute, 29 July 2021
- ‘Earth laws and Rights of Nature’ – Guest speaker, webinar hosted by NSW Young Lawyers, 15 June 2021
- ‘Ecological Law and Regulation to Achieve Degrowth”, The International Society for Ecological Economics and European Society for Ecological Economics Degrowth Conference, 8 July 2021
- ‘Co-creating a Movement for the World We Want’, International Webinar hosted by Local Futures, 21 June 2021
- ‘Sessions from the Deep: Making Waves’, webinar hosted by Youth for Our Planet Asia-Pacific, 10 April 2021
- ‘The Feminist Legal Judgment Writing Project’, Guest speaker, panel discussion hosted by Pakistani Feminist Judgments Project, 27 March 2021
- ‘Declaration on the Rights of the Moon’ Panel Discussion, International Association for the Study of the Commons 2021 Commons in Space Virtual Conference, 26 March 2021
- ‘The Royal Societies of Australia Stewardship of Country - From Past to Future - Part 3 of a Virtual Event Series’, webinar hosted by Royal Societies of Australia and Inspiring Australia Victoria, 24 March 2021
- 'Life after the pandemic', Politics in the Pub, hosted by Communify, The Powerhouse, New Farm, Brisbane, 17 March 2021
- 'Ecological Law and Degrowth', Webinar hosted by the Ecological Law and Governance Association, online, 17 March 2021
- ‘(Co)Housing Ecologies - Part 2 Systems of collective resilience’, webinar hosted by CoHousing Australia, online, 17 February 2021
- ‘Sustainability & Caring for Country - First Nations Webinar’, hosted by University of Queensland Sustainability, online, 16 February 2021
- 'Rights of Nature or Rights of People?' Panel Discussion, Local Conference of Youth (LCOY) 'Restoring the Climate - I am the Solution', 6 February 2021
- 'Life after the pandemic', Politics in the Pub, hosted by Communify, The Powerhouse, New Farm, Brisbane, 17 March 2021
- 'Ecological Law and Degrowth', webinar hosted by the Ecological Law and Governance Association, online, 17 March 2021
- 'Rights of Nature or Rights of People?' Panel Discussion, Local Conference of Youth (LCOY) 'Restoring the Climate - I am the Solution', 6 February 2021
- 'Rights of Nature in Australia: can we decolonise and rethink the Rights of Nature?', Global Forum on Human Rights and Rights of Nature, Widener Law School and CDER, 2 October 2020
- 'Should the moon have legal personhood?' Panel discussion, Webinar, August 2020
- 'The New Economy and bioregional governance,' 22 March, 2020, "Going Local - Hope in a Time of Crisis", Conference organised by Local Futures and NENA/New Economy Network Australia
- 'The Stories Not Being Told: Earth centred governance and the Australian Peoples' Tribunal', presentation at 'Storying Climate Change and the 'Environmental Resonance' Dilemma', 27 February 2020, hosted by University of Melbourne
- 'Challenging Consumption and the Right to Repair', presentation at 'Right to Repair Symposium', 6 February 2020, hosted by the Law Futures Centre, Griffith University, Brisbane
- 'Rights of Nature and Bioregional Governance', Presentation, WA State NRM and Coastal Conference, 1-4 October, Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA
- 'The future of water,' Final Panel Discussion, Liveable Cities Conference, Adelaide, 13 August 2019
- 'Rights of Nature and Legal Personhood for Nature: Perspectives from Australia and the Pacific', Presentation, Pacific Biodiversity Conference, IRD/SPREP, Noumea, New Caledonia, 24-25 June 2019
- 'Earth laws and Bioregional Governance,' Presentation as part of the ELGA Panel "Themes in Ecological Law and Governance", Annual CANSEE Conference (Canadian Society for Ecological Economics), 24 May 2019 (via internet)
- Rights of Nature and Earth Laws in Australia', Presentation, 10th Geneva Forum, United Nations, Geneva - Rights of Nature for Peace and Development (via zoom), 10 December 2018
- 'The future for agri-food research, policy and activism in the Anthropocene - the role of Earth laws', Opening Panel Discussion, Agri-food XXV: Celebrating 25 Years of Australasian Agri-Food Research, University of Queensland, 5 December 2018
- 'The Human Right to a Healthy Environment and the Rights of Nature', Presentation at 'Human Rights, Fracking and Climate Change' Seminar, co-hosted by EDO Qld, Griffith University and AELA, 4 December 2018
- ‘Creating an Earth centred future: law, economics, ethics and education”, Keynote Presentation, Alternative Futures Symposium, University of Newcastle, 22-23 November 2018, UTS, Sydney
- 'Bioregional Governance and Earth centred law," Presentation, Exploring our legal relationship with living world, Brisbane, 25-26 October 2018
- 'Advocating for the Rights of Nature in Australia: The work of the Australian Earth Laws Alliance', presentation given to the 10 Year Celebration of Rights of Nature in Ecuador, hosted by the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, 27 September 2018, Quito, Ecuador (via zoom)
- 'Building an Earth centred legal system: Rights of Nature and Bioregional Governance", 23 June, 2018 Queensland Ornithological Conference, Brisbane
- 'Responding to the Reports of the Australian Panel of Experts on Environmental Law (APEEL): Rights of Nature and Bioregional Environmental Governance', at the APEEL Conference, "Better laws for a better planet: a symposium on the future of Australia's environmental laws", University House, ANU, Canberra 28 March 2018
- 'When objects become subjects: the global Rights of Nature movement, and what it means for Australia", Frontiers Environmental Law Conference, Hobart, February 5-6 February 2018
- 'The failing of environmental law and why we need Rights of Nature laws", Rights of Nature Symposium, 27 October 2017, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
- 'GreenPrints: an approach for implementing ecological economics,' Canadian Society for Ecological Economics Conference, October 2017, Montreal
- 'The Rights of Nature and AELA's "Exploring the Legal Status of Nature Project"', Legal Status of Rivers Symposium, AELA and CREEL/Melbourne Law School, July 2017
- 'Threats to land and water in Australia: mega mines and environmental justice', Beyond Mining Symposium, Santiago de Compostela (Spain), 3 March 2017
- 'Earth Jurisprudence and Responding to the Great Work', Nature in Culture Symposium, Sydney Environment Institute, 23 February 2017
- 'Teaching Earth Jurisprudence: Building Capacity for Critical Thinking and Creative Problem Solving', Frontiers3, Melbourne Law School 16 February 2017
- 'AELA's GreenPrints Program and The Role of The Arts', InterCreate Panel, Global Ecologies and Local Impacts Conference, Sydney Environment Institute, Sydney University, 23-25 November 2016
- 'Next generation environmental law or echoes of 1984? Regulating consumption in industrialised societies", Global Ecologies and Local Impacts Conference, Sydney Environment Institute, Sydney University, 23-25 November 2016
- 'The New Economy and our Relationship with the Natural World: An Earth Jurisprudence Approach', "Building the New Economy: enterprise, activism and social change Conference", Glebe Town Hall, Sydney 15-16 August 2016
- 'Regulating Consumption: A Framework for Taking Collective Action', Opening presentation at AELA's "Let's Talk About Consumption" Symposium, Melbourne, 4 March 2016
- 'Ownership Matters in the Sharing Economy', Panel Discussion for Melbourne Sustainability Festival, 18 February 2016.
- 'Regulating Consumption: A Framework for Taking Collective Action', Opening presentation at AELAs "Let's Talk About Consumption" Symposium, Brisbane, 28 August 2015
- ‘Australia’s Response to Climate Change: A Case Study in What Not to Do to Your Carbon Price’, Environmental and Earth Law Summit, Barry University, Florida, USA, 9 April 2015 (invited)
- ‘Rights of Nature and Protected Areas’, Paper presented at IUCN World Parks Congress, Green Justice Panel, Sydney 17 November 2014
- ‘The implications of Planetary Boundaries for Earth Jurisprudence and national environmental regulation’, Paper presented at the New Zealand Earth Laws Conference on Sustainability, Wellington, New Zealand, 14-17 March 2014 (invited)
- ‘Ecological Limits, Planetary Boundaries and Earth Jurisprudence’, Paper presented at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Academy of Environmental Law Conference, Waikato, New Zealand 26-28 June 2013
- ‘Using The Law To Support Community Climate Action,’ Public lecture and panel discussion at the Australian Climate Action Summit Forum, NSW Parliament House, 21 June 2013 (invited)
- ‘Access to Environmental Justice in Queensland – News from the Trenches’, Presentation to Environmental Justice Symposium hosted by Sydney University Law School, 5 May 2013 (invited)
- ‘Environmental Justice and the Role of Governments,’ Paper presented at Environmental Justice Symposium, co-hosted by Victorian Environment Defenders Office and Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law (CREEL), Melbourne University, Melbourne, 27 July 2012 (invited)
- ‘Climate Justice: Gaps and Opportunities in Government Policy’, National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility Conference ‘Adaptation in Action’ , Melbourne, June 2012
- ‘Finding limits for human societies: can Earth Jurisprudence put the brakes on unsustainable consumption?’, Earth Jurisprudence: Building Theory and Practice, Griffith University, Brisbane 16-18 September 2011
- ‘Next Generation Environmental Law or Echoes of 1984? Regulating Individuals for Environmental Outcomes’, PhD Colloquium, Griffith University, July 2011
- ‘Limiting Consumption – Wild Law in Practice?’, ‘Keeping the Fire’ Conference, July 2010, Wollongong University
- ‘Transforming Domestic Consumption Patterns in Urban Water Supply in South East Queensland’, joint paper with Professor Jan McDonald, International Climate Change Adaptation Conference, June 2010, Gold Coast
- ‘Going Against the Flow: Transforming Urban Water Consumption’, joint paper with Professor Jan McDonald, Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, December 2009, Brisbane
