Associate Professor (human rights & environmental law). I’m interested in legal geography, and water, climate & spatial justice. Co-author of The Lawful Forest (2022), author of Legal Geographies of Water (June 2025). Naarm. She/her
Cristy Clark
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The payment is ‘part of a remediation deal the bauxite miner struck with the government to enable it to *continue its operations*.’
This delightful human turned 50 yesterday. He was in Bangkok for work so we’ll celebrate this weekend. I do feel ridiculously lucky to spend my life with such a kind, funny and deeply ethical person. Happy birthday @paulmitchell.bsky.social 🎉💕
Prof Paula Gerber explains Giggle v Tickle (2026) and how judges interpret the actual law #humanrights #law podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/c...
more diabolical things in this new NDIS legislation - in Schedule 2, they propose fines up to $20K of disabled people and families for making admin errors in a notoriously complex administrative system
Registrations for The Annual Castan Centre for Human Rights Law Conference are open!Join us to discuss Children’s rights, Vic Treaty, the Charter and Judicial independence, 23 July, in Melbourne Details @ our conference website
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It was a joy to write this short article with @prof-mac.bsky.social and Hayden Turoa about the need to use relational research methods when researching rights of nature (and similar environmental governance arrangements).
Last week, my co-authors & I got review reports back on our paper. The first was genuinely excited about the paper, and then provided a few pages of thoughtful, incredibly constructive minor amendments. Reviewer 2 essentially said ‘love it, publish as is’.
Sometimes peer review can be delightful.
So often overseas, I get up and go out to try to buy a coffee (& breakfast) and just can’t find anywhere open. I always have to remind myself that Australia is an outlier with our super early trading hours.
But also: why wait until after 9am to sell coffee?
Cristy Clark
Melbourne does good sunrises.
Cristy Clark
We’re being a little provocative with this episode: ‘What everyone gets wrong about rights of nature.’
It was a joy for @prof-mac.bsky.social and I to be joined by @ezzyod.bsky.social for this discussion of the potential & pitfalls of so-called ‘rights of nature’ scholarship.
