Public lecture: Connecting and Disconnecting in a Global and Polycentric Legal World
| Date: | Thursday 15 Sep, 5:30pm - 7pm |
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| Location: | AUT City Campus WZ Building, WZ416 Auckland New Zealand |
| Contact: | lawevents@aut.ac.nz |
Associate-Professor Khylee Quince, Dean of the AUT Law School, warmly invites you to a public lecture on Thursday 15 September as part of the 2022 Borrin Foundation Distinguished Visiting Fellow series.
In this lecture, Professor Liz Fisher explores the process of the evolution of legal imagination to understand what laws and legal resources are needed for facing our ecological futures.
Law connects people and places. It also disconnects them. It does so in many ways. Through jurisdiction, through responsibility, through obligation, through rights, through soft law, and through processes. The polycentric and global nature of environmental problems raises questions about whether current connections and disconnections make legal sense. Professor Fisher explores this question.
About Liz Fisher
Liz Fisher is Professor of Environmental Law at the Faculty of Law and Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford.
For many years, her work has been at the cutting edge of exploring the way in which law and institutions evolve to address environmental problems.
In her scholarship, teaching and commentary she has turned her acute eye and intellect to contemporary issues as varied as climate change, specialist courts, risk regulation and the future of public law.