Publications - books, book chapters, journal articles and other reports
AELA and Australian Peoples' Tribunal Reports
- Editor and co-author - Final Report & Recommendations: 2019 Citizens' Inquiry into the Health of the Barka/Darling River and Menindee Lakes, co-authored with Gill Boehringer, Gwynn MacCarrick, Manav Satija, Mary Graham and oss Williams (Final Report: 30 September 2020)
- Co-Author - AELA Submission to the EPBC Act Review, March 2020
- Editor - Earth Ethics Online Journal, "Inspiring Earth Ethics: Linking Values and Action",
- Co-Author - Submission to the Product Stewardship Act Review, 2018
- Editor - Earth Arts Catalogues - RONA2016, RONA2018
Books
- ‘From Environmental to Ecological Law’, co-edited with Kirsten Anker, Peter Burdon, Geoffrey Garver and Carla Sbert, Series: Explorations in Environmental Studies, Routledge, 2021
- Law as if Earth Really Mattered: The Wild Law Judgements Project’, May 2017, Routledge Press, (Law, Justice and Ecology Series), co-edited with Dr Nicole Rogers
- ‘Wild Law in Practice’, (2014) Routledge Press, (Law, Justice and Ecology Series), April, co-edited with Dr Peter Burdon
Book Chapters
- ‘Practical pathways to Ecological Law: Greenprints and bioregional governance”, in ‘From Environmental to Ecological Law’, Eds Kirsten Anker, Peter Burdon, Geoffrey Garver, Michelle Maloney and Carla Sbert; Routledge, 2021
- 'Introduction: The emergence of ecocentric law and ideas for the future of environmental law", in 'Earth Law: Emerging Ecocentric Law - A Guide for Practitioners', Edited by Anthony Zelle, Grant Wilson, Rachelle Adam & Herman Greene; Wolters Kluer, 2021
- 'Greenprints and bioregional governance: ecological economics in practice?' in 'Ecological Economics: Solutions for the Future', edited by Haydn Washington, 2020
- 'Caring for Country and Rights of Nature: A conversation Between Earth jurisprudence and Aboriginal Law and Ethics', with Mary Graham, in Cameron La Follette and Chris Maser, Sustainability and the Rights of Nature in Practice; CRC Press 2019
- 'Re-imagining the Common Law: Rights of Nature Tribunals and the Wild Law Judgements Project', with Nicole Rogers, Brendan Mackey, Greta Bird and Jo Bird in 'Representations and Rights of the Environment: Conceptual Foundations', edited by Sandy Lamalle and Peter Stoett; Earth System Governance Series, MIT/Cambridge UP, 2019
- 'The Wild Law Judgments Project', in Nicole Rogers and Michelle Maloney (ed) 'Law as if the Earth Really Mattered: The Wild Law Judgments Project'; Routledge Press, 2017
- 'Greenprints: an Earth-centred governance approach for living within our ecological limits and creating a steady state economy', in Haydn Washington (ed) 'Positive Steps towards a Steady State', published by CASSE NSW, 2017
Journal Articles
- 'Rights of Nature: Perspectives for Global Ocean Stewardship', with Harriet Harden-Davies, Fran Humphries, Glen Wright, Christina Gjerde and Marjo Vierras, Marine Policy 122 (2020) May
- 'The Need for Ecological Ethics in a New Ecological Economics ', with Haydn Washington, Ecological Economics, Volume 169, March 2020
- 'Recognising the Rights of the Great Barrier Reef Could Help Defeat Destructive Coal Mine', with Mari Margil, Earth Island Journal, 5 August 2019
- 'Rights of Nature, Earth democracy and the Future of Environmental Governance,' in Rebalancing Rights: Communities, Corporations and Nature, Green Institute, March 2019
- 'Changing the Legal Status of Nature: Recent Developments and Future Possibilities', NSW Law Society Journal, Issue 49, October 2018, pp 78-79
- Earth Centred Governance, Dumbo Feather, 30 July 2018
- 'The New Economy Network Australia', Australian Environment Review (2017), co-authored with Professor Bronwen Morgan, UNSW
- 'Eucalyptus flavoured ecofeminism and other ecocentric adventures', Special Collection, The Ecological Citizen, July 2017
- 'The UN Harmony with Nature Initiative: why it matters and what it might achieve', The Ecological Citizen, March 2017
- 'Building an Alternative Jurisprudence for the Earth: the International Rights of Nature Tribunal', (2016) Vermont Law Review, Vol 41:129
- 'What does the global Earth laws movement mean for Australian law?', (2015) Australian Environment Review, Vol 30 No.4&5
- ‘Responding to the Great Work: the role of Earth jurisprudence in the 21st Century', (2015) Environmental and Earth Laws Journal, Vol 5 Issue 1, with Pat Siemen
- ‘Finally Being Heard: The Great Barrier Reef and the International Rights of Nature Tribunal’, (2015) Griffith Journal of Law and Human Dignity, Vol 3 Issue 1
- ‘The Australian Wild Law Judgements Project’, (2014) Alternative Law Journal, Vol 39 Issue 3, with Nicole Rogers
- ‘Environmental Justice Network – Where to From Here?’, (2014) Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law, Vol 17
- 'Ecological Limits, Planetary Boundaries and Earth Jurisprudence’, (2014) in M. Maloney and P. Burdon ‘Wild Law in Practice’, Routledge Press (Law, Justice and Ecology Series)
- ‘Earth Jurisprudence and Sustainable Consumption’, (2011) Southern Cross University Law Review, Special Edition, 2011
- ‘Public policy analysis of energy efficiency and load management in changing electricity businesses’, (2003) Energy Policy 31(5), with E. Vine, J. Hamrin, N. Eyre, D. Crossley, and G. Watt)
Recent briefings
- Women, Environment and Rights of Nature' - Briefing for UN Women, 14 March 2022
Non-refereed articles
- 'Reflections from the first day of the Darling River Citizen's Inquiry', AELA Blog, 23 March 2019
- 'Public Hearings in Menindee: 'ground zero' of the Darling River Crisis', AELA Blog, 24 March 2019
- 'Recognizing the Rights of Nature', Op-ed, The Toledo Blade, Ohio, USA, 12 January 2019
- 'Contaminated life - the true cost and human rights impacts of unconventional gas mining in Australia', Online article for 'Questions for a Resilient Future', Center for Humans and Nature (http://www.humansandnature.org/questions) , 2017
- 'Earth Arts and RONA16 - Celebrating the Rights of Nature', Earth Song, October 2016
- 'Earth Jurisprudence and Rights of Nature Tribunals', United Kingdom Environmental Law Association E-News, May/June 2016
- ‘Earth Jurisprudence, Rights of Nature and Sharing Law’, Stir Magazine, April-May 2015
- ‘Earth Jurisprudence: Responding to the Great Work’, Earth Song, March 2015
- ‘Why we’re wild about wild law’, This Next Wave, October 2011




















