Speakers
Opening Keynote Panel
Dr Jo Rey
Dr Jo Anne Rey is a Dharug Aboriginal community member, through her Dharug-Randall- lineage
In 2019, Jo completed her doctoral thesis: Country Tracking Voices: Dharug women’s perspectives on presences, places, and practices at Macquarie University.
Based on her research, in 2018 she was invited to develop a first-year undergraduate unit within the Macquarie University Indigenous Studies department. This local Aboriginal community focus was a first in Australia
.In 2020, Jo became a Research Fellow with Macquarie University’s Indigenous and Geography Departments, weaving post-doctoral Dharug research across three Dharug sites: Shaw’s Creek Aboriginal site, Blacktown Native Institution and Brown’s Waterhole, in the Lane Cove National Park.
In 2021, she and Dharug women collectively, were invited by the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment to lead a Women’s Cultural Burn at Brown’s Waterhole. This will be historic when undertaken, as it will be the first time since colonisation that a Dharug-led women’s cultural burn has been government approved and facilitated.
Professor Mindy Chen-Wishart
Mindy Chen-Wishart is Dean of Law and Professor of the Law of Contract at Oxford University. She is also the Fellow in Law at Merton College.
She holds a fractional professorship at the National University of Singapore and holds or has held visiting professorships at Hong Kong University, the National University of Taiwan, Otago University, Auckland University, Canterbury University, Gottingen University, Thammasat University and Renmin University in Beijing.
She is author of Contract Law (7th ed, OUP, 2022), an editor of Chitty on Contracts (34th ed), and was a member of the Advisory Group on A Restatement of the Law of Contract in English and Wales. Mindy has lectured to the Judicial College of England and Wales and the Judicial Academy in Taiwan and Hong Kong. She delivered the Fourth Annual Lecture of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly as author of the best paper.
Mindy is leading a six-book project on the contract laws of 14 Asian jurisdictions, of which three are published and the fourth in production. She was born in Taiwan and lived in NZ for 21 years.
Dr Dina Lupin
Dina Lupin is a legal theorist working in feminist, queer and decolonial philosophy. In her current research, she examines the ways in which Indigenous communities are subjected to practices of silencing and epistemic injustice in consultation processes, and in the ways in which these communities resist and subvert oppressive practices.
Dina is the Director of the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment. She is currently based at the University of Vienna and will be joining the faculty of Southampton Law School in March 2022.
Closing Plenary Panel
Dr Sophie Chao
Dr Sophie Chao is Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) Fellow and Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney. Her research investigates the intersections of Indigeneity, ecology, capitalism, health, and justice in the Pacific.
Sophie is author of In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua, which received the Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award in 2021 and is forthcoming with Duke University Press in July 2022.
She is also co-editor of The Promise of Multispecies Justice with Eben Kirksey and Karin Bolender, forthcoming with Duke University Press in November 2022. Chao previously worked for the human rights organization Forest Peoples Programme in Indonesia, supporting the rights of forest-dwelling Indigenous peoples to their customary lands, resources, and livelihoods.
For more information about Sophie’s research, please visit morethanhumanworlds.com.
Professor Klaus Bosselmann
Dr Klaus Bosselmann is Professor of Environmental Law and Founding Director of the New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law at the University of Auckland. Among his current leadership roles are Chair of the Ecological Law and Governance Association (ELGA) elgaworld.org, Chair of the Earth Trusteeship Initiative (ETI) earthtrusteeship.world and Co-Chair of the Global Ecological Integrity Group (GEIG) globalecointegrity.org.
Klaus has authored 15 books (with translations into multiple languages) in the areas of international environmental law, eco-constitutionalism and legal theory.
For his pioneering work on ecological law and Earth jurisprudence he received numerous awards including the Inaugural Senior Scholarship Prize of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law and the 2021 Carlowitz Sustainability Award.
Associate Professor Peter Burdon
Peter Burdon is Deputy Dean of the Adelaide Law School and Deputy Dean (Learning and Teaching) of the Faculty of Professions.
Peter's research uses interdisciplinary materials from sociology, political science, economics, philosophy, history and environmental studies. Peter is an expert in environmental theory and has written and edited books on Earth Jurisprudence and Earth Democracy. In 2017 he published a book on Hannah Arendt and the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann.
He is currently working on a handbook and monograph on the Anthropocene. Both of which will be published by Routledge in 2022.
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