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Australian Wild Law Conference 2013

Living within our ecological limits: law and governance to nurture the Earth community

7-29 September 2013 Speaker Update

The theme for this year’s conference is: “Living within our ecological limits: law and governance to nurture the Earth community”.  We’re very excited to announce that we have Nati Greene from Fundacion Pachamama (Ecuador) and Mari Margil from CELDF (USA) giving talks and workshops about Rights of Nature legislation and related developments.

We also have a fantastic, multi-disciplinary group of Australian speakers, including world renowned scientists Professor Will Steffen from the ANU and Emeritus Professor Ian Lowe and Professor Brendan Mackey from Griffith University. Information about the event can be found on our website:http://www.wildlaw.org.au/wildlaw-conference-2013-brisbane/

AWLA

Call for Papers

Please visit AWLA’s website for information about the Conference themes, and for a copy of the Call for Papers: http://www.wildlaw.org.au/wildlaw-conference-2013-brisbane/call-for-papers/

Papers are invited from academics, practitioners, regulators, civil society organisations and activists who are interested in the themes of the conference. The Conference organisers particularly encourage proposals for multi-disciplinary panels (for example three speakers for one session, from different disciplines), as well as proposals for working groups and round tables that address these topics.

Wild Law and Rights of Nature Seminar – AWLA

Wild Law and Rights of Nature - Perth 2013From Australian Wild Law Alliance’s February/March 2013 Newsletter

Australia Wild Law Alliance announces the success of its Wild Law and Rights of Nature Seminar in Perth, Australia Saturday 9th February 2013.

60 people participated in the public seminar held at the Canning River Environmental Centre, Perth, on Saturday 9th February.  This was AWLA’s first visit to Western Australia, and it was a really fantastic event.  AWLA would like to thank John Gherardi, Sheryl Carmody and Jaime Yallup for their invaluable help in organising the seminar and flying AWLA’s National Convenor, Michelle Maloney, from Brisbane to Perth for the event.

A major outcome from the seminar discussions was the decision by several local people, led by Amanda Joseph, to create a new AWLA Chapter in Western Australia.  Well done Team WA! Contact details for the Chapter are set out below.
For more information about the Perth seminar, and for a link to photos from the morning, please visit AWLA’s website or click here for the Perth Seminar webpage: http://www.wildlaw.org.au/perth-wild-law-seminar/

Wild Law Events in Sydney this May

AWLA is very excited to be hosting three events in Sydney in early May:

** Wednesday 1st May – Evening Seminar with Transition Bondi, at Bondi Beach – “Should Mother Nature Have Rights?”
** Thursday 2nd May – Free 1 Day Workshop, “An Invitation to Explore Wild Law”, held in partnership with local environmental lawyers and academics, at Sydney University.
** Saturday 4th May – 1 Day ‘Wild Law and Art/Science Incubator’, in partnership with Tess de Quincey and Co.

For more information about these events, please visit the Events page on our website for more information: http://www.wildlaw.org.au/events  or email convenor@wildlaw.org.au

Call for Papers – Australian Wild Law 2013

2013 Australian Wild Law Alliance

“Living within our ecological limits:
law and governance to nurture the Earth Community”

27-29 September 2013, Ian Hangar Recital Hall,

Southbank, Brisbane – Australia

Wild Law Australia Call for Papers

For a copy of our ‘Call for Papers’ flyer, please click here.

From 27-29 September 2013 the Australian Wild Law Alliance will host a multi-disciplinary conference aimed at exploring key questions for living within our ecological limits:

  • How do we know our ecological limits? And how do we know our place in Mother Earth?
    What can we learn from science, ethics, indigenous knowledge and spiritual connections to country?
  • What legal and governance mechanisms can help us live within our limits?
    What concepts and tools exist in economics, planning, law and other disciplines, that can help guide our efforts to live within our ecological limits?         
  • How do we change our current economic, political and legal systems to create human societies that live in a harmonious relationship with the Earth community?
    For example, what role can ‘rights of nature’ legislation play in shifting human societies towards an earth-centred world view and governance culture? What is the role of civil society in changing traditional power structures?

Papers are invited from academics, regulators, civil society organisations and activists who are interested in these topics.  The Conference organisers particularly encourage proposals for multi-disciplinary panels (for example three speakers for one session, from different disciplines), as well as proposals for working groups and round tables that address these topics.

For more information on the Australian Wild Law Conference visit http://www.wildlaw.org.au/wildlaw-conference-2013-brisbane/

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT:

Please email your

  • 250 to 300 word abstract, and
  • 100 word speaker biography

To our email address: conference2013@wildlaw.org.au  by 30th June

Please type ‘ABSTRACT’ in your email title.

Adelaide Wild Law Roadshow Workshop held 30 November 2012

Australian Wild Law Association hosted a Wild Law Workshop in Adelaide on 30th November 2012 in partnership with the Environmental Defender’s Office South Australia.  The one day workshop ‘An Invitation to Explore Wild Law’ explored the meaning and relevance of Wild Law and Earth Jurisprudence in the South Australian context. Sixty participants included academics, legal practitioners, regulators, community activists, students and general public interested in the future of environmental governance. For workshop details visit http://www.wildlaw.org.au/wild-law-workshop-friday-30th-november-adelaide/.

The workshop is part of the Australian Wild Law Association 2012-2013 Roadshow. The first workshop was hosted in Melbourne 17 August 2012. More than 50 people enjoyed Earth centred and environmental law discussions in Melbourne. The Victorian EDO co-hosted the first event with AWLA.

AWLA Roadshop Workshop Adelaide

AWLA Adelaide Workshop – Click for more photos on Facebook!

The first workshop was hosted in Melbourne. More than 50 people enjoyed Earth centred and environmental law discussions in Melbourne on 17 August 2012. The Victorian EDO co-hosted the event with AWLA

Planetary festival for the Rights of nature 12 october to 21 december

Driven and driven by the creative breath, and realizing our sovereignty to activate a survival strategy for the Earth and future generations, a group of people – organizations and networks – have decided to do a global call for the
Universal Proclamation of Land Rights in order that each citizen of the world, the Colombian state and world governments on Earth recognize a subject of rights life itself, of which our existence depends.Planetary festival for the Rights of nature 12 october to 21 decemberThis event will be held simultaneously on October 12, 2012 at 12:00 am, Dignity Day, in various parts of Metro: Cuzco, Urubamba, Peru, Bogota, Cali, Medellin-Manizales-Pasto-Santa Marta-Bucaramanga-Colombia, Barcelona Spain, Berlin, Germany, India, Mexico, Cochabamba, Bolivia, Sao Paulo, Brazil and Caracas, Venezuela among others, are already confirmed.

We envision a ceremony of 8000 drums for our mother nature, this would be the beginning of a series of activities that will take place from 12 October to 21 December 2012.We are writing to you especially since we know that this product serves to disseminate the work for the rights of nature and consider it important to coordinate our efforts to fulfill the purpose of defending our territory. So we invite you to actively participate in this process, thereby strengthening its leadership for the benefit of culture, art and life of all beings on the planet that represents the existence of our community.

We know that for years have worked at for communicative structured as a major global communications network that is why we come to you with admiration and respect, hoping to join together in the flower heart to see the new world that our ancestors dreamed and our future generations deserve, so we see as an example to follow, as older brothers. We decided present our unconditional support for this event and those who are coming and you know well that they have a family extended throughout the world.

The 8000 Drums is a spontaneous event of Peoples and Nations Originating Worldwide.

Receive this message of brotherhood and support from ancestral knowledge of the Network, Community, Water Song, Youth for the original identity and Respect Tawantinsuyu, Astronomical Global Network, Conscious Global Compact, the Spoon Revolution, Fungi Experimental Community, Redviva and many other organizations worldwide that we will carry out activities in the framework of this festival.

 

Espanol:

Impulsados e impulsadas por el aliento creador, y conscientes de nuestra soberanía para activar una estrategia de supervivencia para La Tierra y las generaciones venideras, un grupo de personas, colectivos, organizaciones y redes, hemos decidido hacer un llamado mundial a La Proclamación Universal de los Derechos de la Tierra con el fin de que cada ciudadano y ciudadana del mundo, el estado colombiano y los gobiernos mundiales, reconozcan en la Tierra un sujeto de derechos con vida propia, del cual depende nuestra existencia.

Este acto se realizará simultáneamente el 12 de octubre de 2012 a las 12:00 am, día de la Dignidad, en diversos lugares del Planeta: Cuzco-Urubamba Perú, Bogotá-Cali-Pasto- Medellin- Manizales- Santa Marta- Bucaramanga-Colombia.
,Barcelona España, Berlin, Alemania, la India, México, Cochabamba, Bolivia, Sao paulo, Brasil y Caracas, Venezuela entre otros, ya están confirmados. Es una ceremonia que visiona 8.000 tambores por nuestra madre naturaleza, esta sería el comienzo de una serie de actividades que se llevaran a cabo desde el 12 de octubre hasta el 21 de diciembre de 2012.

Nos dirigimos especialmente a ustedes ya que tenemos claro que esta pagina sirve para difundir el trabajo por los derechos de la naturaleza y consideramos importante articular nuestros esfuerzos para cumplir con el propósito de defender nuestro territorio. Por lo tanto los invitamos a PARTICIPAR ACTIVAMENTE en este proceso, fortaleciendo así su liderazgo, en beneficio de la cultura, el arte y la vida de todos los seres del planeta que representa la existencia de nuestra comunidad.

Sabemos que durante años han trabajado a nivel comunicativo para estructurarse como una gran red de comunicaciones global por esa razón nos acercamos a ustedes con admiración y respeto, con la esperanza de hermanarnos en el
corazón para ver florecer el mundo nuevo que nuestros antepasados soñaban y nuestras generaciones futuras merecen, por ello los vemos como un ejemplo a seguir, como hermanos mayores. Hemos decidido presentar nuestro apoyo incondicional para este evento y aquellos que sean venideros y sepan así ustedes que cuentan con una familia extendida a lo largo y ancho del mundo.

8000 Tambores es un evento espontáneo de los Pueblos y Naciones Originarias de Todo el Mundo.

Reciba este mensaje de hermandad y de apoyo de parte de Red de saberes ancestrales xie, de la Comunidad, Canto al Agua, Juventud por la Identidad Originaria y el Respeto a Tawantinsuyu, Red Astronómica Global, Pacto Mundial Consciente, la Revolución de la Cuchara, Comunidad Fungi Experimental, REDVIVA y muchas otras organizaciones que a nivel mundial vamos a realizar actividades en el marco de este festival.

Animal Rights and the Rights of Nature

– Symposium 6 October 2012, Australia – Gold Coast

Animal Rights and Rights of Nature - Southern Cross University
The Southern Cross University (SCU) is hosting a 1 day Symposium on 6th October 2012, at SCU’s Gold Coast campus. For more information contact Dr Alessandro Pelizzon: alessandro.pelizzon@scu.edu.au and click here for the Earth Laws Symposium Poster
“Animal Rights and the Rights of Nature: Intersections and Tensions”

Are animal rights intrinsic to the Rights of Nature, or are they separate and distinct? You are invited to a full day symposium to explore the intersections, tensions and commonalities between the Rights of Nature and Animal Rights

Guest Speakers

  • Michael Anderson (Aboriginal activist and co-founder of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy)
  • Anne Schillmoller (Animal rights activist and theorist)
  • Cormac Cullinan (author of Wild Law and co-founder of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature)

Contact details:

Earth Laws Network, School of Law and Justice

Saturday 6 October 2012

Southern Cross University, Gold Coast Campus

(Access via Terminal Drive, Gold Coast Airport)

RSVP: lawevents@scu.edu.au by 1 October 2012

Wild Law – a vision for an Earth centred legal system

In Melbourne Australia

Friday 17 August 2012, 9am – 4.30pm

The Australian Wild Law Alliance (AWLA) and Environmental Defender’s Office (Vic), invite you to a one day workshop that explores what Wild Law is and what it might offer modern environmental law. This is the first workshop in the ‘AWLA Roadshow’ series, which will see AWLA travel to each State and Territory during 2012 and 2013, to open up spaces for discussion and action relating to Wild Law and Earth Jurisprudence.

This workshop will be of interest to legal practitioners, academics, regulators, policy makers, activists, students and interested members of the community.

60L Green Building, Ground Floor Meeting Rooms, 60 Leicester Street, Carlton.

$20 per person for the full day event

Register and Purchase ticket

The program

An introduction to earth jurisprudence

Elements of Wild Law

  • Rights of nature and global activism – Peter Burdon
  • Living within the limits of the natural world – Michelle Maloney
  • Indigenous and cross cultural perspectives – Alex Pelizzon

Plenty of time allowed for questions and discussion.

Lunch will be catered by the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.

Panels and discussion on local and topical issues.

Panellists include:

  • Samuel Alexander, Simplicity Collective – Earth Jurisprudence and stepping outside the growth model.
  • Erin O’Donell, Melbourne University Law School – The environment’s right to water – the environmental water reserve and the environmental water holder
  • Mick Power, EDO mining law expert, – If not “sustainable mining” then what?
  • Julia Dehm, Melbourne University Law School – Nature as ‘natural capital’ in the Rio +20 ‘green growth’ paradigm – problems with the economic reductionist understanding of nature.
  • Felicity Millner, EDO Principal Solicitor – Do trees need standing anyway? Developments and issues with the rights to defend and protect nature in the courts.

Interested in joining a panel? Contact Brendan Sydes at the EDO on 8341 3100 or brendan.sydes@edo.org.au

Wild Law is a new legal theory and a growing social movement in Australia, and around the world. It proposes that we rethink our legal, political, economic and governance systems to support rather than undermine the natural world. As human activities continue to degrade the natural environment and threaten the healthy functioning of the Earth system, can our environmental laws keep up? Are they capable of protecting the environment?

Wild Law or Earth Jurisprudence offers a positive vision for creating Earth centred laws and governance structures to ensure human societies can live within ecological limits and support the integrity and health of the Earth.

Wild Law – a vision for an Earth centred legal system

Wild Law a Vision for Earth Centerd Legal System

The Australian Wild Law Alliance (AWLA) and the Environment Defender’s Office Victoria are hosting a 1 day interactive workshop in Melbourne on Friday 17 August, titled “Wild Law – a vision for an Earth centred legal system”.

This workshop is an invitation to learn more about Wild Law and Earth Jurisprudence.  The morning session will include presentations that cover a critique of modern environmental law, and an introduction to key elements of Wild Law, including rights of nature, living within our limits, cross cultural perspectives and implementing wild law.  The afternoon session will offer interactive facilitated discussion groups to enable participants to explore the relevance of Wild Law to their own work and areas of interest.

The workshop will be of interest to legal practitioners, academics, regulators, policy makers, activists, students and interested members of the community. All are welcome to attend!

Click for a printable pdf flyer for Wild Law – a vision for an Earth centre legal system workshop.

You can book in for this workshop via Eventbrite: http://wildlawworkshop.eventbrite.com.au/

For more information about Australian Wild Law Alliance visit www.wildlaw.org.au