Directory of Scholars
BENJAMIN J. RICHARDSON
BA, LLB, PHD
Professor of Environmental Law, University of Tasmania
Primary Research Interests
- Climate change law
- Corporate environmental responsibility
- Economic instruments & the environment (taxes, emission trading, etc)
- Financial & investment issues
- Indigenous peoples & the environment
Secondary Research Interests
- Alternative regulatory tools (eg voluntary codes and self-regulation)
- Environmental ethics & justice
- Environmental politics
- Human rights & the environment
- International environmental law
- Municipal & land use planning
Selected Publications
- Indigenous Peoples and the Law: Comparative and Critical Perspectives (co-edited with Shin Imai and Kent McNeil), Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2009, 440 pp.
- Climate Finance and its Governance: Moving to a Low Carbon Economy through Socially Responsible Financing?, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 2009 (in press).
- Socially Responsible Investment Law: Regulating the Unseen Polluters, New York, Oxford University Press, 2008, 600 pp.
- Putting Ethics into Environmental Law: Fiduciary Duties for Ethical Investment, Osgoode Hall Law Journal, (2008) 46(2) 243-91, 2008.
- Environmental Law for Sustainability (coedited with Stepan Wood), Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2006, 487 pp.
- Environmental Regulation through Financial Organisations: Comparative Perspectives on the Industrialised Nations, The Hague, Kluwer Law, 2002, 407 pp.
- Is East Asia Industrializing Too Quickly? Environmental Regulation in Its Special Economic Zones, UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal (2005) 22: 150-244, 2005.
- Environmental Law in Postcolonial Societies: Straddling the Local – Global Institutional Spectrum, Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy (2000) 11(1): 1-82, 2000.
- Environmental Justice and Market Mechanisms: Key Challenges for Environmental Law and Policy (co-edited with Klaus Bosselmann), London, Kluwer Law, 1999, 354 pp.