<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Kenneth McLeod</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kenneth.mcleod@uts.edu.au">kenneth.mcleod@uts.edu.au</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 11:02 AM<br>Subject: INVITATION • EARTH LAW FORUM • Venue Details<br>To: <a href="mailto:kenneth.mcleod@uts.edu.au">kenneth.mcleod@uts.edu.au</a><br><br><br>
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EARTH LAW FORUM<br>
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<p align="center"><b><font color="#3333ff"><span style="font-size:23pt;font-family:"Helvetica""><font color="#009900">Exploring
the Legal Status of Nature</font>
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<p align="center"><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'Helvetica';font-weight:700">1-4pm Thursday
9th November •
University of Technology Sydney •
</span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Helvetica";font-weight:700;color:rgb(255,22,0)">Room CB06 03.056 <br>
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<p align="center"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Helvetica";font-weight:700;color:rgb(255,22,0)"><font size="+3"><font face="Helvetica">Level 3,
room 056, building 6, 702-730 Harris St, Ultimo</font></font><br>
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<p align="center"><font face="Arial Black" size="+2"><b><span style="font-size:6pt"><font face="Helvetica" size="+3" color="#999999">See attachment for
location map</font><br>
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<p align="center"><span style="font-size:6.000000pt;font-family:'LucidaGrande';font-weight:700">If you wish
to have lunch before the forum the DAB Cafe on level 4 off</span><span style="font-size:6.000000pt;font-family:'LucidaGrande';font-weight:700">ers a
wide choice of meals and beverages.
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<p align="center"><span style="font-size:15.000000pt;font-family:'Helvetica';font-weight:700">SPEAKERS
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<p align="center"><font color="#3333ff"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:"Helvetica";font-weight:700">The Hon.
Justice Brian Preston SC
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<p align="center"><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'Helvetica'">Chief Judge of the NSW Land
& Environment Court
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<p align="center"><span style="font-size:15.000000pt;font-family:'Helvetica';font-weight:700;color:rgb(21.755700%,58.597000%,98.249500%)"><font color="#3333ff">Dr Michelle Maloney</font>
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<p align="center"><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'Helvetica'">Co-Founder/National Convenor of
the Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA)
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<p align="center"><font color="#3333ff"><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:"Helvetica";font-weight:700">Dr Virginia
Marshall
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<p align="center"><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'Helvetica'">Indigenous lawyer and author of
'Aqua Nullius' <br>
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<p align="center"><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'Helvetica'"><br>
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<p align="center"><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'Helvetica'">The dawn of the Anthropocene -
triggered by human impacts on the Earth System - is
challenging us to rethink the legal, economic and
governance structures underpinning
our techno-industrial growth societies. Many lawyers
around the world are exploring
innovative ways to use the law to protect the life support
systems of the planet and its
precious diversity of species and eco-systems.
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<p align="center"><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'Helvetica'">This forum is part of a series
of gatherings in several cities around Australia that aim
to
bring together academics, legal practitioners, First
Nations People, activists and cultural
creatives to explore Earth-centred approaches to law and
governance.
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<p align="center"><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'Helvetica'">On February 19-20 next year the
Anthropocene Transition Project will convene a
two-day symposium around the theme </span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'Helvetica';font-weight:700;font-style:oblique;color:rgb(62.745100%,17.647100%,1.176500%)">Rethinking
Sovereignty for the Earth</span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'Helvetica'">.
Speakers will include </span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'Helvetica';font-weight:700">Professor
Klaus Bosselmann</span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'Helvetica'">, Director of the
New Zealand</span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'Helvetica'"> Centre for Environmental Law
and Chair of the IUCN World Commission on
Environmental Law, </span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'Helvetica';font-weight:700">Professor
Will Steffen</span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'Helvetica'">, Earth System scientist,
International
Anthropocene Working Group, Planetary Boundaries Research
Project, and </span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'Helvetica';font-weight:700">Dr Mary
Graham</span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'Helvetica'">, Kombumerri elder and Adjunct
Professor at the University of Queensland.
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<p align="center"><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'Helvetica'">A national symposium, </span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'Helvetica';font-weight:700;font-style:oblique;color:rgb(62.745100%,17.647100%,1.176500%)">Exploring the
Legal Status of Nature, </span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'Helvetica'">will be held in May
</span><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'Helvetica'">2018 to gather the outcomes of these forums
and share relevant research. An edited
collection of papers from the project will be published in
late 2018 or early 2019. <br>
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<p align="center"><font color="#009900"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Helvetica";font-weight:700">The
Anthropocene Transition
Project is honoured to partner with
the Australian Earth Law Alliance in
</span></font><span style="font-size:10.000000pt;font-family:'Helvetica';font-weight:700;color:rgb(34.117600%,47.451000%,15.686300%)"><font color="#009900">convening this forum. <br>
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