P Burdon
Biographic Data
| ID | 28165 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Burdon |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Burdon |
| SIGNATURE | BURDON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Adelaide |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0967-4987 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Political Impact of the Sustainable Development Goals: Transforming Governance Through Global Goals
Written by an international team of over sixty experts and drawing on over three thousand scientific studies, this is the first comprehensive global assessment of the political impact of the Sustainable Development Goals, which were launched by the United Nations in 2015. It explores in detail the political steering effects of the Sustainable Development Goals on the UN system and the policies of countries in the Global North and Global South; on…
Obligations in the Anthropocene
Silencing of activism in Australian law
Environmental destruction and climate change are driving new waves of environmental activism. In response, governments in several Australian states have enacted legislation designed to penalise and silence political protest. This article analyses Tasmania’s anti-protest laws and considers how the United Nations and scholars have reacted to them. We argue that protest suppression laws such as these reflect a neoliberal rationality which conceptual…
Decolonising Indigenous water ‘rights’ in Australia: Flow, difference, and the limits of law
This article addresses Indigenous Australian claims to water resources and how they inform and relate to current Australian law and contemporary legal thinking about future possibilities. It adopts a multidisciplinary approach, drawing from historical records, previous ethnographic investigation with Indigenous Australians, current legal scholarship, and social anthropological theory. In doing so, it analyses Indigenous dependencies on water, the…
Hannah Arendt: On Judgment and Responsibility
This article considers the relevance of Hannah Arendt’s writing on responsibility and judgment for legal academics. It begins by providing a summary of Arendt’s report on the Eichmann trial, focusing in particular on the gradual shift in her thinking from theorising evil as radical to something that is banal. Following this, I connect Arendt’s thinking on judgment with her writing on plurality and what it means to keep company with oneself. I con…
Idealism and Struggle: Co-Opting Legal Rights for Environmental Protection
In the last sixty years, human rights have become the international moral currency and 'umbrella' under which all kinds of justice claims are articulated. Since the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (the Stockholm Conference) human rights have also been used as both a legal tool and moral discursive strategy for protecting human health and well-being. The extension of human rights to the environment has taken two dominant fo…
Earth Jurisprudence and the Murray-Darling: The Future of a River
This article critiques the draft Murray-Darling Basin Plan from the perspective of an emerging theory of law termed Earth Jurisprudence. While the Draft Plan purports to be concerned with ecological management, this paper argues that it actually legitimizes the continued exploitation of the Murray-Darling. Next, the paper considers an alternative approach to ecosystem management that is based on the scientific concept of ‘Ecological Integrity’. T…
The Jurisprudence of Thomas Berry
On June 1 2009 Fr Thomas Berry passed away at his home in Greensboro N.C. In his final book before passing, Berry challenged human society to a carry out a transition from a period of human devastation of the Earth to a period when humans would be present to the planet in a mutually beneficial manner. This 'Great Work' encompassed religion, education, science and law. In this paper I will address Berry's argument that our current legal system sup…
Wild Law: The Philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence
Wild law or Earth Jurisprudence is an emerging theory of law and governance that seeks to evolve law in a fashion that recognises our relationship to the broader Earth community. In this article, the author introduces and articulates some fundamental concepts being developed by theorists in this area. The author also discusses the recent constitutional amendment in Ecuador that granted nature the right to exist, persist and flourish
The Rights of Nature: Reconsidered
1 Stone's thesis concerned the legal issue of standing.Here the court affirmed the existing test that required the party seeking review to have suffered actual damage.However, in a dissenting judgement, Justice Douglas noted 'the critical question of "standing" would be simplified and also put neatly in focus if we ... allowed environmental issues to be litigated ... in the name of the inanimate object about to be despoiled, defaced, or invaded..…
Wild Law: The Philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence
Wild law or Earth Jurisprudence is an emerging theory of law and governance that seeks to evolve law in a fashion that recognises our relationship to the broader Earth community. In this article, the author introduces and articulates some fundamental concepts being developed by theorists in this area. The author also discusses the recent constitutional amendment in Ecuador that granted nature the right to exist, persist and flourish
The Rights of Nature: Reconsidered
1 Stone's thesis concerned the legal issue of standing.Here the court affirmed the existing test that required the party seeking review to have suffered actual damage.However, in a dissenting judgement, Justice Douglas noted 'the critical question of "standing" would be simplified and also put neatly in focus if we ... allowed environmental issues to be litigated ... in the name of the inanimate object about to be despoiled, defaced, or invaded..…
Obligations in the Anthropocene
Silencing of activism in Australian law
Environmental destruction and climate change are driving new waves of environmental activism. In response, governments in several Australian states have enacted legislation designed to penalise and silence political protest. This article analyses Tasmania’s anti-protest laws and considers how the United Nations and scholars have reacted to them. We argue that protest suppression laws such as these reflect a neoliberal rationality which conceptual…
Hannah Arendt: On Judgment and Responsibility
This article considers the relevance of Hannah Arendt’s writing on responsibility and judgment for legal academics. It begins by providing a summary of Arendt’s report on the Eichmann trial, focusing in particular on the gradual shift in her thinking from theorising evil as radical to something that is banal. Following this, I connect Arendt’s thinking on judgment with her writing on plurality and what it means to keep company with oneself. I con…
Earth Jurisprudence and the Murray-Darling: The Future of a River
This article critiques the draft Murray-Darling Basin Plan from the perspective of an emerging theory of law termed Earth Jurisprudence. While the Draft Plan purports to be concerned with ecological management, this paper argues that it actually legitimizes the continued exploitation of the Murray-Darling. Next, the paper considers an alternative approach to ecosystem management that is based on the scientific concept of ‘Ecological Integrity’. T…
The Jurisprudence of Thomas Berry
On June 1 2009 Fr Thomas Berry passed away at his home in Greensboro N.C. In his final book before passing, Berry challenged human society to a carry out a transition from a period of human devastation of the Earth to a period when humans would be present to the planet in a mutually beneficial manner. This 'Great Work' encompassed religion, education, science and law. In this paper I will address Berry's argument that our current legal system sup…
Wild Law: The Philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence
Wild law or Earth Jurisprudence is an emerging theory of law and governance that seeks to evolve law in a fashion that recognises our relationship to the broader Earth community. In this article, the author introduces and articulates some fundamental concepts being developed by theorists in this area. The author also discusses the recent constitutional amendment in Ecuador that granted nature the right to exist, persist and flourish
The Rights of Nature: Reconsidered
1 Stone's thesis concerned the legal issue of standing.Here the court affirmed the existing test that required the party seeking review to have suffered actual damage.However, in a dissenting judgement, Justice Douglas noted 'the critical question of "standing" would be simplified and also put neatly in focus if we ... allowed environmental issues to be litigated ... in the name of the inanimate object about to be despoiled, defaced, or invaded..…
The Jurisprudence of Thomas Berry
On June 1 2009 Fr Thomas Berry passed away at his home in Greensboro N.C. In his final book before passing, Berry challenged human society to a carry out a transition from a period of human devastation of the Earth to a period when humans would be present to the planet in a mutually beneficial manner. This 'Great Work' encompassed religion, education, science and law. In this paper I will address Berry's argument that our current legal system sup…
Earth Jurisprudence and the Murray-Darling: The Future of a River
This article critiques the draft Murray-Darling Basin Plan from the perspective of an emerging theory of law termed Earth Jurisprudence. While the Draft Plan purports to be concerned with ecological management, this paper argues that it actually legitimizes the continued exploitation of the Murray-Darling. Next, the paper considers an alternative approach to ecosystem management that is based on the scientific concept of ‘Ecological Integrity’. T…
Idealism and Struggle: Co-Opting Legal Rights for Environmental Protection
In the last sixty years, human rights have become the international moral currency and 'umbrella' under which all kinds of justice claims are articulated. Since the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (the Stockholm Conference) human rights have also been used as both a legal tool and moral discursive strategy for protecting human health and well-being. The extension of human rights to the environment has taken two dominant fo…
Decolonising Indigenous water ‘rights’ in Australia: Flow, difference, and the limits of law
This article addresses Indigenous Australian claims to water resources and how they inform and relate to current Australian law and contemporary legal thinking about future possibilities. It adopts a multidisciplinary approach, drawing from historical records, previous ethnographic investigation with Indigenous Australians, current legal scholarship, and social anthropological theory. In doing so, it analyses Indigenous dependencies on water, the…
Hannah Arendt: On Judgment and Responsibility
This article considers the relevance of Hannah Arendt’s writing on responsibility and judgment for legal academics. It begins by providing a summary of Arendt’s report on the Eichmann trial, focusing in particular on the gradual shift in her thinking from theorising evil as radical to something that is banal. Following this, I connect Arendt’s thinking on judgment with her writing on plurality and what it means to keep company with oneself. I con…
Silencing of activism in Australian law
Environmental destruction and climate change are driving new waves of environmental activism. In response, governments in several Australian states have enacted legislation designed to penalise and silence political protest. This article analyses Tasmania’s anti-protest laws and considers how the United Nations and scholars have reacted to them. We argue that protest suppression laws such as these reflect a neoliberal rationality which conceptual…
Obligations in the Anthropocene
The Political Impact of the Sustainable Development Goals: Transforming Governance Through Global Goals
Written by an international team of over sixty experts and drawing on over three thousand scientific studies, this is the first comprehensive global assessment of the political impact of the Sustainable Development Goals, which were launched by the United Nations in 2015. It explores in detail the political steering effects of the Sustainable Development Goals on the UN system and the policies of countries in the Global North and Global South; on…
Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Environmental law and policy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Earth system science (2 works)