主题：Environmental justice and land use conflict
主讲人：Amanda Kennedy Deputy Director, Australian Centre for Agriculture and Law; School of Law
主持人：赵小波 上海财经大学法学院讲师
时间：2014年9月25日（周四），晚18:30
地点：二教309
Biography
Dr Amanda Kennedy has extensive experience in law-based multidisciplinary research, particularly incorporating the social sciences. Dr Kennedys research has been shaped by her interest in contract law and dispute resolution, with emphasis on the influence of legal instruments and institutions upon stakeholder behaviour. Her PhD research examined the law governing industrial agreements against the background of social context, and she has developed aspects of her approach in her more recent work on natural resource governance.
Since commencing the role of Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Agriculture and Law in 2008, Dr Kennedy has focused upon instruments and institutions for effective natural resource governance. Notable contributions to this field include research examining conflict over ownership of natural resources on publicly-owned land and the concept of social licence, research into the risks and benefits associated with unbundling rights (to carbon, water and other evolving interests) in land, and research into the use of non-legal instruments (such as social marketing tools) to manage natural resource use. Dr Kennedy was the lead organiser of the 2011 UNE Colloquium on Water Law: Through the Lens of Conflict. This event attracted high profile international academics in the field of natural resources and water law, and critically examined the role of legal institutions to provide new insights into water law. More recently, she was a co-convener of the 2013 IUCN Academy of Environmental Law International Colloquium, held at the University of Waikato in New Zealand, and also organised a follow-on study symposium from this event, entitled Land Use Change Law and Conflict. Dr Kennedy is currently co-editing two books which will contain scholarly papers from this event. She is also the Co-Editor in Chief of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law eJournal.
Dr Kennedy recently completed a $133,000 Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations grant entitled Rethinking law curriculum: developing strategies to prepare law graduates for practice in rural and regional Australia. This project developed materials for the undergraduate law curriculum to assist in preparing, attracting and retaining lawyers and other legal professionals for careers in rural and regional Australia. From late 2012, Dr Kennedy has led a three-year $375,000 Australian Research Council funded project entitled Effective systems for managing intractable natural resource conflict. This research examines how patterns of conflict over natural resources develop, and how disputes may be effectively managed through approaches that account for divergent stakeholder values and the influence of legal and non-legal rule frameworks on conflict. It will propose a system for managing such conflict, drawing upon literature research and comparative case study observations from Australia and the United States.
