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Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law (ACCEL)

The objectives of the Centre are to encourage, promote and support innovative and important scholarship including teaching, research, consultancy and public interest advocacy in all areas of environmental law and policy. These objectives are pursued within the University of Sydney, with other related Centres and institutions in Australia and overseas, with the legal profession, and with the wider community.

New Technologies, Risk and Environmental Law

16-19 July 2013
The Sydney Law School in Europe Program offers a unique opportunity for students to undertake a fully-credited Sydney Law School comparative unit of study in the centre of Amsterdam at the prestigious Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, during the mid-year break. The program will be offered on an intensive basis over four days in Amsterdam. Students will be taught by Professor Han Somsen, Vice Dean of Tilburg School of Law and Professor Rosemary Lyster, University of Sydney. More information

Law, Tropical Forests and Carbon: The Case of REDD+

ACCEL are pleased to announce a new book by Rosemary Lyster, Catherine MacKenzie, Constance McDermott (eds) Law, Tropical Forests and Carbon: The Case of REDD+ (Cambridge University Press: 2013).

Emerging from the scientific parameters underpinning Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) (including the measurement of carbon stocks, reporting and verification), the book considers the crucial challenges for global and national governance and the legal rights and interests of indigenous people and local communities, all of which have fundamental implications for development and poverty alleviation. With contributions from leading experts in the fields of law, governance, sciences, development studies and geography, it sheds light on the complexity of REDD+ and offers perspectives on the extent to which REDD+ agreements can be enforced under international law in concert with new private and public domestic institutions. Sydney Law School News | Cambridge catalogue

SUBMISSIONS INVITED - Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law (APJEL)

The Editor-in-Chief of the Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law (APJEL), is currently seeking submissions for future issues of the Journal. read more

Current issue: APJEL Volume 15 (2012) Table of Contents