11th Frontiers in Environmental Law Colloquium

Centre for Environmental, Resources and Energy Law - Te Putahi o te Ture Taiāo

         Te Piringa Faculty of Law

     University of Waikato

30-31 January 2025

The University of Waikato is very pleased to welcome colleagues from across Australasia to the 11th Frontiers of Environmental Law Colloquium which will be held on 30-31 January 2025 at our state-of-the-art Tauranga campus on the Pacific Ocean coast of the Bay of Plenty.

The annual Frontiers in Environmental Law Colloquium provides a forum for environmental law academics and practitioners to share and discuss their experiences, research, and teaching practices. Through a supportive forum, we aim to:

• Foster a supportive and inclusive network of like-minded individuals;
• Explore innovative environmental law ideas and insights within and beyond our discipline;
• Contribute meaningfully to the future of environmental law in our region;
• Share approaches to teaching and learning in environmental law; and
• Assist environmental law academics to actively build their careers.

Colloquium Theme for 2025

Interdisciplinarity and Environmental Law

The colloquium theme is designed to explore the connections between Environmental Law and other academic disciplines – in providing evidence about the state of the environment, or identifying environmental issues and societal preferences, or implementing environmental solutions via science and technology, or in connection with environmental compliance and monitoring, or environmental communication via the arts or the media.

Put simply, to interrogate current and potential connections between environmental law and other academic disciplines (from anthropology to writing studies) to deliver environment-focused outcomes for a more sustainable future.

We welcome papers across the whole range of environment related fields (atmosphere, biodiversity, climate, compliance and enforcement, dangerous activities, dispute resolution, ecosystems, equity, freshwater, health, implementation, natural hazards, oceans, ozone layer, planning, seas, species, teaching and capacity building – and new approaches and techniques for environmental protection) that explore the colloquium theme.