As the challenge of climate change begins to affect all aspects of everyday life, the need for a wider approach to its legal implications is never more urgent. This unique text from some of Australia's top legal academics as well as Stanford University's Professor Armin Rosencranz, illustrates with disturbing clarity how legal policy, litigation, investment, corporations law, labour law, property law, international law, and WTO law all intersect with the enviornmental legal framework when considering the impacts of climate change.

Author Biography

Rosemary Lyster is the Professor of Climate and Environmental Law in the Faculty of Law. She is also the Director of the Faculty's Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law. In 2013, Rosemary was appointed a Herbert Smith Freehills Visiting Professor at Cambridge Law School and was a Visiting Scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge in 2009 and in 2014. In the area of Environmental Law, Rosemary specialises in Energy and Climate Law, Climate Disaster Law and Water Law.