Benjamin J. Richardson

Benjamin J. Richardson is a Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, of York University, in Canada. He previously held academic positions at the law schools of the universities of Manchester (UK) and Auckland (New Zealand). With a long-standing interest in environmental law, he also once worked for the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service in Australia and the IUCN project offices in Kenya and Nepal. Professor Richardson is also a scholar of Aboriginal law, and during 2006-08 he was co-director of Osgoode’s award-winning Intensive Program in Aboriginal Law. Among his other responsibilities, Professor Richardson was previously the co-chair of the Research Committee of the IUCN Academy (2007-09). Professor Richardson’s scholarship includes six authored or co-edited books, including Climate Law and Developing Countries (Edward Elgar, 2009), Indigenous Peoples and the Law (Hart Publishing, 2009), Socially Responsible Investment Law (Oxford University Press, 2008), and Environmental Law for Sustainability (Hart Publishing, 2006).>