Senior Lecturer

Career Summary

Since mid-2004 I have been a Senior Lecturer at the University of Tasmania Law School. Previously I worked for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (1989-2004) which included leading a number of Australian delegations to negotiations on multilateral environment agreements while working as the First Secretary for the Australian Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva (1996-1999). In 1987-1988 I undertook an LLM at the London School of Economics and Political Science. From 1985-87 I worked as a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg Germany where I was part of the editorial team for the Encyclopaedia of Public International Law (R.Bernhardt (ed.)). I am currently the Faculty Advisor of the University of Tasmania Law Review (UTLR) and coach of the UTAS Jessup moot team.

Units Taught

Research Interests

My research interests are in the field of international environmental law, particularly relating to climate change. My current research focuses on issues relating to climate change and 1) technology transfer and 2) intergenerational equity. I am a member of the Policy Program of the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Commonwealth Research Centre UTAS and member of the IUCN Energy Law and Climate Change Speciality Group.

Selected Publications:

• P Lawrence, 2009, 'Australian Climate Policy and the Asia Pacific Pathway on Clean Development and Climate (APP) From Howard to Rudd: Continuity or Change? ', International Environmental Agreements: Politics Law and Economics, Vol 9, no 3/August 2009, pgs. 281-299.
• P Lawrence, 2008, 'APEC Promises a Roar and Delivers a Whimper’', Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law, 11 APJL no 1 & 2, pgs. 29-49
• P. Lawrence, 2007, 'The Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate (AP6): a distraction to the Kyoto process or a viable alternative?', Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law , 10 APJEL no 4 , pgs. 183-209
• P. Lawrence, 1998, 'Negotiation of a Protocol on Liability and Compensation for Damage resulting from Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal', Review of European Community and International Environmental Law , (RECIEL), Vol. 7, Issue 3, pgs. 249-255
• P. Lawrence, 1994, 'Regional Strategies for the Implementation of Environmental Conventions: Lessons from the South Pacific?', Australian Yearbook of International Law , pgs. 203-229
• P. Lawrence, 1990, 'International Legal Regulation for Protection of the Ozone Layer: Some Problems of Implementation', Journal of Environmental Law , Vol. 2 No. 1 , pgs. 17-52

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