{"id":450,"date":"2011-04-13T02:15:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T02:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lawfoundation.org.nz\/?page_id=450"},"modified":"2011-04-13T02:17:09","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T02:17:09","slug":"new-zealand-law-foundation-distinguished-visiting-scholar-2011","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/?page_id=450","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Law Foundation Distinguished Visiting Scholar 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>11th March 2011<\/strong><a href=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Ben-Boer.cropped.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawfoundation.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Ben-Boer.cropped1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-454\" title=\"Ben Boer.cropped\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lawfoundation.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Ben-Boer.cropped1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Emeritus Professor in Environmental Law Ben Boer from the University of  Sydney is the 2011 New Zealand Law Foundation&#8217;s Distinguished Visiting Fellow.   Between 2006 and 2008, he was the international Co-Director of the IUCN  (International Union for the Conservation of Nature) Academy of Environmental  Law and Visiting Professor based at the University of Ottawa, while continuing  to teach in the Master of Environmental Law at the University of Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Boer is in New Zealand during April and his visit is being hosted  by Te Piringa &#8211; Faculty of Law at the University of Waikato.  While in New  Zealand Professor Boer will give public lectures in Auckland, Hamilton,  Wellington and Dunedin.  His lecture topics are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Biodiversity, Climate Change &amp; Protected Areas: The need for an  integrated approach<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This lecture looks at the need for integration of environmental law at  international and national levels: agendas of Conferences of Parties to  international environmental treaties are made more consistent, and that the  obligations taken on under environmental treaties are consistently and  adequately implemented at national level.  The focus of this lecture will be on  biodiversity, climate change and the role of natural protected areas<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reform of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act  1999<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This lecture will focus on progress with reform of the Australian federal  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). It  will outline the history of the drafting and implementation of the EPBC Act, and  current efforts to amend it to incorporate a range of unaddressed or  inadequately addressed issues, including a climate change trigger for initiating  action under the legislation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>International Human Rights Norms and Environmental Law<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This lecture will survey the development of closer connections between the  international human rights regime and the international treaty regime for  environmental protection, using examples from a number of regions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The New South Wales Land and Environment Court<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This lecture will examine the history and operation of the New South Wales  Land and Environment Court: this lecture will look at the development of the  Land and Environment Court, and its increasingly sophisticated approach to a  range of issues. These will include the phenomenon of public interest litigation  and costs orders, the response of the Court to the need for ecologically  sustainable development, the development of various planning principles, as well  as rules governing various aspects of the courts operation.<\/p>\n<p>Dates for these lectures will be publicised soon.<\/p>\n<p>With his departure from Canada, he was appointed as an honorary Adjunct  Professor at the University of Ottawa.  At the University of Sydney he continues  to teach in various units of study in the Master&#8217;s program.  In 2009 he was  appointed as a Visiting Professor in the Research Institute of Environmental  Law, Wuhan University, People&#8217;s Republic of China.  In 2010, Ben took up a three  month Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship at the European University Institute in  Florence, where he taught a course on <em>Advanced Human Rights Law and the  Environment<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Formerly, Ben was Professor in Environmental Law, University of Sydney  (Personal Chair, 1997 -2008) and the Corrs Chambers Westgarth Professor of  Environmental Law, University of Sydney (1992-1996).  Prior to that, at  Macquarie University, he was Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor,  School of Law (1979-1991) as well as teaching in the Graduate School of the  Environment (1979-1991), and Tutor and Lecturer, Department of Legal Studies, La  Trobe University (1974-1979).<\/p>\n<p>Together with his Sydney colleagues and environmental lawyers at the  Australian National University and the University of Adelaide, Ben founded the  Australian Centre for Environmental Law between the three universities in 1992.  At the University of Sydney, this body is now called the Australian Centre for  Climate and Environmental Law.<\/p>\n<p>Ben was a founder of the Australasian Law Teaching Workshop which commenced  its programmes in 1989, and continues to be interested in the training the  teachers process, with a recently completed comprehensive program for  environmental law lecturers at the Research Institute of Environmental Law,  Wuhan University, China.<\/p>\n<p>Ben has published widely in the area of environmental and natural resources  law and policy, including <em>International Environmental Law in the Asia  Pacific<\/em> (with Ross Ramsay and Donald Rothwell), and <em>Heritage Law in  Australia<\/em> (with Graeme Wiffen, Oxford 2006).  He contributed to Francioni,  F. (ed.) <em>The World Heritage Convention; A <\/em> <em>Commentary <\/em>(Oxford  2008).    His latest work, of which he was the main editor, is <em>Environmental  Law and Sustainability after Rio<\/em> (with Jamie Benidickson, Antonio Benjamin  and Karen Morrow, eds. Edward Elgar 2011.   He is currently the head of the IUCN  World Commission on Protected Areas Legal Frameworks Specialist Group. In this  connection, he completed two extensive case studies on protected areas law for  Australia and New South Wales in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Ben has served as a consultant to various intergovernmental and  non-governmental organisations in the following countries: China, Germany,  India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nepal, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Trinidad  and Tobago, Vietnam and Samoa, as well as conducting research for various  departments of the Australian Federal Government.<\/p>\n<p>For further information see <a href=\"http:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/law\/about\/staff\/BenBoer\/\">http:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/law\/about\/staff\/BenBoer\/<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11th March 2011 Emeritus Professor in Environmental Law Ben Boer from the University of Sydney is the 2011 New Zealand Law Foundation&#8217;s Distinguished Visiting Fellow. 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