AELA's National Convenor, Dr Michelle Maloney, and Christina Meyers ask what we can learn from the rise (and rise) of rights of nature and Earth Laws in this essay from the Law Society Journal's March 2023 edition.
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Feb 03 2023
How Ecocide Could Be Made a Crime in Australia
Christina Meyers 
Ecocide Laws Australia
AELA is hosting an Australian working group made up of lawyers, academic researchers and law students, who are working to draft Ecocide laws for jurisdictions in Australia. The working group presented webinars on 24 November 2021 and …
Feb 02 2023
Making Ecocide an International Crime
Christina Meyers 
This blog will explore how we can make ecocide an international crime.
There are several ways that Ecocide could be recognised as a crime in international law. One way is to create an International Treaty signed by Nation States. At …
Feb 01 2023
Stop Ecocide International and the Legal Definition of Ecocide
Christina Meyers 
This blog will explore Stop Ecocide International and the Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide.
Stop Ecocide International
Stop Ecocide International (SEI) was co-founded in 2017 by pioneering barrister Polly Higgins (1968-2019) and current Executive Director Jojo …
Feb 01 2023
The History of Ecocide
Christina Meyers 
We are currently living in an ecological and climate emergency and the sixth mass extinction. Through 2019 and 2020 Australia suffered bushfires. The fires destroyed more than 10 million hectares of land across Australia, including more than 20% of temperate …
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