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Laureate Program in Comparative Constitutional Law

This project aims to address the need to reconcile the tensions between the pursuit of diversity and the promotion of social cohesion. This critical problem becomes increasingly urgent as nations grapple with the challenges of highly diverse multi-cultural societies. The project aims to build a team of researchers who draw on the experience of constitutionalism throughout the world to investigate how Constitutions, in their design and in their application, can unify while nurturing the diversity appropriate for a complex, modern society. This project is intended to help governments, judiciaries and the public resolve intense controversies over ideals.

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Watch: River Futures

Revisit this seminar by Ms Lidia Cano Pecharroman, PhD candidate MIT and Mr Cyrille Vallet, PhD candidate, Universities of Geneva (Switzerland) and Lyon (France), who presented two perspectives on the role of law and regulation in shaping our future relationship with rivers in the USA and Europe. The seminar was held at the Law School on Wednesday 12 July 2023.Recording of River Futures. Presented by Ms Lidia Cano Pecharroman, PhD candidate MIT and Mr Cyrille Vallet, PhD candidate, Universities of Geneva (Switzerland) and Lyon (France).

Fish between green corals
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Environmental offsets: problems and possibilities across carbon, water and biodiversity

Thursday 19 October 2023, 12.30-2.15pm, Room 317MCLE Annual ForumPolicies and laws for environmental offsets are now used across domains as diverse as greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity and water at both international and national levels around the world. Despite their growth and the controversy that framework for offsets have often attracted, there has been little attention to the potential for lesson-learning across different offset domains.This forum aims to start this cross-cutting discussion with a panel of two speakers reflecting on offsets in different contexts.Environmental offsets: problems and possibilities across carbon, water and biodiversity

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Environmental lawyering and professional responsibilities in crisis?

Monday, 11 September 2023, 4.00-5.30pm, Room 317A discussion with Steven VaughanAs a species and as a planet, we are facing significant environmental harms, many of which are highly likely to only get worse over time - climate change, air pollution, biodiversity loss, deforestation, chemical harms, waste pollution, poor water quality, and so on. Somewhere in the story of each of these forms of environmental harm are environmental lawyers. They work in law firms large and small; they work for the government and regulators as civil servants; they work in-house in large corporations and charities. These lawyers lubricate, lobby, legislate, and litigate for their clients. In his recent inaugural professorial lecture and paper, Professor Steven Vaughan has suggested that some of the environmental harms that environmental lawyers help their clients bring about, ‘perfectly legally’, raise important and significant questions about the ethics of that lawyering. Do environmental lawyers do things that cost society – in the form of environmental harms – too much? And does legal ethics (written down in regulatory rulebooks and, more generally, in the theories of lawyers’ ethics) help or hinder those actions?In September we hosted a discussion with Steven Vaughan about environmental lawyering and professional responsibilities and also heard from other legal scholars and practitioners working on lawyers’ roles and responsibilities in our current environmental predicament.Co-hosted by CREEL, Melbourne Climate Futures, and the Australian Legal Ethics Network at Melbourne Law School.A discussion with Steven Vaughan about environmental lawyering and professional responsibilities.

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Brainstorming Workshop on Environmental Offset

Thursday 19 October 2023, 2.30-4.45pm, Room 317Following the MCLE Annual Forum (‘Environmental offsets: problems and possibilities across carbon, water and biodiversity’, we held an informal Brainstorming Workshop on Environmental Offsets to consider key questions and potential policy-related research collaborations focusing on offsets.The objective of the workshop was to identify interested researchers at the University of Melbourne and further afield and isolate ‘big issues’ of interest to a group that would like to explore pursuing a research grant on this topic in 2024.More outcomes to follow.Workshop on environmental offsets hosted by MCLE.