Directory of Scholars

SIMON MARSDEN

BA (HONS), LLM, PHD, SOLICITOR
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

email simon.marsden@flinders.edu.au

Primary Research Interests

  • Environmental impact assessment
  • International environmental law
  • Polar law
  • Regional environmental law (eg European Union)
  • Transboundary environmental governance

Secondary Research Interests

  • Constitutional law and the environment
  • Cultural heritage law
  • Environmental politics
  • Municipal & land use planning
  • Natural resources management (forestry, mining, etc)
  • Pollution & toxics control

Selected Publications

  • Invoking Direct Application and Effect of International Treaties by the European Court of Justice: Implications for International Environmental Law in the European Union (2011) 60(3) International and Comparative Law Quarterly 737-757 (Cambridge Journals)
  • Direct Public Access to EU Courts: Upholding Public International Law via the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee (2012) 81(2) Nordic Journal of International Law 175-204 (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
  • Public Participation in Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment – Closing the Gap between International and Public Law?, in Jessup, B and Rubenstein, K (eds) Environmental Discourses in Public and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2012) 238-259, third of five volume series, Connecting International Law with Public Law
  • MOX Plant and the Espoo Convention: Can Member State Disputes Concerning Mixed Environmental Agreements be Resolved outside EC Law? (2009) 18(3) Review of European
  • Community and International Environmental Law 312-327 (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing)
  • Introducing Strategic Environmental Assessment to the Madrid Protocol: Lessons from International Experience (2011) 1(1) The Polar Journal 36-50 (Routledge /Taylor and Francis Group)
  • Protecting Sub-Antarctica via the World Heritage Convention: Recommendations for Improved Domestic and Transboundary Governance in Australasia (2013) 9(1) Macquarie Journal of International and Comparative Environmental Law 1-17
  • Developing Approaches to Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment in China: Cooperation through the Greater Tumen Initiative and in the Pearl River Delta Region (2010) 9(2) Chinese Journal of International Law (Chinese JIL) 393-414 (Oxford University Press).