Reasons to Undertake Your Post-Graduate
Studies with the Centre:
- Unique Concentration on Management
of Natural Resources - Focus on sustainable management of
natural resources (inc. water, air, minerals, fisheries,
forests, biodiversity) ensures professional relevance of
knowledge learned.
- Clear International and Comparative
Context - close attention, especially through specialised
modules, to international treaties and their implementation,
to international trade and to legal and policy strategies
in the Asia-Pacific and in other relevant jurisdictions.
- Convenient Mixed Delivery Mode and
Modular Format Courses - Intensive seminar sessions allow
distance and part-time course work students to spend concentrated
periods on campus. Modular format allows candidates maximum
flexibility to select components of courses meeting their
needs.
- Strong Professional Expertise and
Extensive Field Experience - Diverse team of readily accessible
legal staff with internationally recognised expertise and
unusually deep governmental and intergovernmental field
experience. Wollongong Library owns the extensive national
natural resources law collection acquired under federal
grant.
Programs
delivered by the Centre are designed to cater for for both
students who have no prior background in the law and those
who have completed undergraduate law or legal studies.
About the Centre and the University
The Centre for Natural Resources Law and Policy
The Centre for Natural Resources Law and Policy is located in
the Faculty of Law at the University of Wollongong. The Centre's
focus is on sustainable management of natural resources, which
includes environmental law but is not limited to it. This focus
gives it a unique perspective, especially useful for those employed
in natural resources development and management.
The Centre was established in 1992. It has already achieved
a leading national reputation in law for management of biodiversity,
forestry, wetlands, world natural heritage, fisheries, oceans
pollution and domestic implementation of international conventions.
The Centre has attracted Australian Research Council Grant funding
and the University Library also holds the national collection
on natural resources law, as designated under a large grant
by the Australian Department of Education. The Centre publishes
a biannual journal, the Australasian Journal of Natural Resources
Law and Policy.
Since its establishment, the number of staff attached to the
Centre has grown to six full-time lawyers, assisted by part-time
specialist private legal practitioners. In addition to its original
core areas, mentioned above, the Centre now has in-house expertise
in local government and planning, international environmental
law and its implementation and in the nexus between indigenous
peoples and natural resources management.
The Centre for Natural Resources Law and Policy provides course
work and research programs towards postgraduate diplomas and
degrees. These are described below. Current staff research directions
are oriented towards compliance and accountability for sustainable
management of natural resources, including for the impacts of
industrial pollutants and implementation of international conventions.
It encourages students from non-legal backgrounds to take up
interdisciplinary research and to consider the role and limits
of law as a policy instrument in management of natural resources.
The University of Wollongong
The University of Wollongong is a new breed of university:
energetic, entrepreneurial, responsive, progressive, geared
for the 21st Century. Combining traditional academic values
with innovative teaching, it has an international reputation
for excellence in education and research. It offers exceptional
facilities, ready access to advanced technology and enjoys close
links with industry and government.
The University is a multicultural environment, with 20% of total
enrolments made by international students from over 70 countries.
The campus is modern and ideally located at the base of the
beautiful Illawarra escarpment, with views to the Pacific Ocean,
slightly over an hour by car from the centre of Sydney, the
largest city in Australia. For more information concerning the
University, visit our website at: www.uow.edu.au
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