Professor David Farrier is author of the leading text on New South Wales Environmental Law. He has researched and written on the topics of environmental crime, biodiversity conservation on private land, domestic implementation of international conservation laws, and on water resource management. David currently sits on the NSW Water Advisory Council and the National Parks and Wildlife 'Visions for a New Millennium' Steering Committee. He has consulted extensively on natural resources management law in the South Pacific and, for two years, was a member of the NSW Expert Working Group on Ecologically Sustainable Forest Management.

Associate Professor Gregory Rose is an international environmental law specialist. He joined the Centre from the Legal Office of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade where he was Head of the Environmental Law Unit and also responsible for trade, nuclear and marine environmental law matters. Previously he was with the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development, University of London. He has consulted widely and his current research interests focus on domestic implementation strategies for international environmental law.

Senior Lecturer Andrew Kelly has both legal and planning qualifications, and is an expert on biodiversity management by local government. His research interests also include environmental mediation, heritage and the history of environmental management. He is editor of the Australasian Journal of Natural Resources Law and Policy, a refereed journal published by the Centre.

Associate Professor Natalie Stoianoff's research takes an international view of issues such as the patentability of living organisms and their genes; proprietorship in the biological materials used to develop patentable inventions; and the effect of the Biodiversity Treaty on the ownership of the indigenous genetic pool. Her other research interests include the taxation of natural resource industries.

Margaret Bond's major legal research interest is water law. She is currently researching the law relating to the allocation of water from inland rivers in New South Wales.

Dr Freya Dawson teaches in the areas of Constitutional Law, Administrative Law and Environmental Law. Her research interests include the implications of the concept of biodiversity for land tenure, land management, environmental and planning law in the Northern Territory, and a range of issues relating to indigenous peoples.

Linda Tucker and Felicity Woodhill are Faculty of Law members also attached to the Centre. They have participated in research projects concerning implementation of international nature conservation treaties and the effectiveness of fisheries management conventions and the regulation of the impacts of commercial fishing on non-target marine species. In addition the Centre has a number of adjunct Faculty who work in private legal practice but give some of their time to the centre.

These include Professorial Fellows:

John Whitehouse, once Director of the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and partly responsible for drafting some of the significant NSW environmental legislation, who is now a partner at Minter Ellison;

Peter Hopkins, an expert in commercial aspects of mining law, particularly mining joint ventures, who runs a practice in Sydney and is Chair of the NSW Division of the Australian Mining and Petroleum Law Association; and

John Cole, an expert in planning and local government law and a partner at Abbott Tout.The Centre also maintains close working links with relevant bodies within the University of Wollongong, especially the :Centre for Maritime Policy, directed by Professor Martin Tsamenyi and the Environment Research Institute, directed by Professor John Morrison.