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Researchers: Dr. Durrant |
 Nicola Durrant - School of LawDoctorBSc (Env)/LLB (Hons) Griffith University Grad Dip LP Australian National University PhD QUT Room C718, C Block Queensland University of Technology Gardens Point Work (61) (7) 3138 5207 
Profile
Nicola Durrant is an Doctor in the Faculty of Law and an active climate law researcher with QUT’s Institute for Sustainable Resources. Nicola is an environmental lawyer with particular expertise in the role of law in responding to climate change. Nicola has published several papers and presented numerous seminars addressing the legal issues in regulating greenhouse gas emissions, attributing liability for climate related harms, and developing an effective carbon trading scheme. Nicola completed an integrated environmental law degree from Griffith University in 2001 (LLB/BSc(Env)(Hons)). Upon graduation she joined a top tier firm in Sydney where she practised as a solicitor in the area of Environmental and Planning law, specialising in major projects, from 2002 to 2005. In 2005, Nicola commenced a full-time Doctor of Philosophy with QUT’s Faculty of Law/Institute for Sustainable Resources, which she completed in 2008. Her thesis is titled ‘The Role of Law in Responding to Climate Change: Emerging Regulatory, Liability and Market Approaches’. Research Interests
Professional Memberships
Admitted as a Solicitor and Barrister of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, 2002 Law Society of Queensland (2005 – Present) National Environmental Law Association (2005 – Present) IUCN Commission on Environmental Law (by invitation) (2007-present) Alliance for Law, Governance and the Environment (co-founder) (2007-Present) Global Governance Project (Glogov) (2008- Present) Environmental Law Roundtable of Australia and New Zealand Associate (2007-Present) Golden Key International Honour Society (by invitation) (1998 – Present) Recent Publications
Nicola Durrant , ‘Addressing Climate Liabilities in Common Transactional Documents’ in Gumley & Daya-Winterbottom (eds) Climate Change Law: Comparative, Contractual & Regulatory Considerations Thomson Reuters (forthcoming). Nicola Durrant , ‘Legal Issues in Biosequestration: Carbon Sinks, Carbon Rights and Carbon Trading’ (2008)14(2) Special Issue on Climate Change Law in Australia, UNSW Law Journal Forum. Donald Feaver and Nicola Durrant ‘A Regulatory Analysis of International Climate Change Regulation’ (2008) 30(4) Special Issue on Global Warming, Governance and the Law, Law and Policy 394. Nicola Durrant, ‘Tortious Liability for Greenhouse Gas Emissions? Climate Change, Causation and Public Policy Considerations’ (2007) Volume 7, Issue 2 QUT Law and Justice Journal 403. Nicola Durrant ‘Professional Liability for Climate-Affected Advice’ (2007) Issue 60 Queensland Environmental Practice Reporter 114. Nicola Durrant ‘The Xstrata Coal Mine Challenge: Objections, Judicial Determinations and Natural Justice’ (2007) Issue 60 Queensland Environmental Practice Reporter125. Nicola Durrant, ‘Emissions Trading, Offsets and Other Mitigation Options for the Australian Coal Industry’, (2007) Volume 24, Issue 5 Environmental Planning and Law Journal 361. Donald Feaver and Nicola Durrant, ‘Architectures of International Regulation’ (2007)(QUT e-prints). Nicola Durrant and Rowena Maguire, ‘An Integrated Legal Approach to Global Environmental Governance: Combating Climate Change, Drought and Deforestation’ (2007) Volume 9: Special Edition on Global Governance Canberra Law Review 65. Nicola Durrant, ‘Submission in Response to the Prime Minister’s Task Group on Emissions Trading Issues Paper’ (2007). Nicola Durrant, ‘The Science and Economics of Climate Change: an update on the Predictions’ (2007) Summer 2006: Issue 4. National Environmental Law Review 39 . Nicola Durrant ‘Review: Climate Change Litigation: Analysing the Law, Scientific Evidence and Impacts on the Environment, Health and Property’ (2007) Volume 15: Issue 1 Environmental Liability Journal 39 . Recent Seminars
Nicola Durrant, ‘Designing the Legal Framework for an Effective Emissions Trading Scheme’ Queensland Environmental Law Association, ‘Project Planning and the Emissions Trading Scheme’ Brisbane, 29 September 2008. Nicola Durrant, ‘Addressing Climate Liabilities in Common Transactional Documents’ National Environmental Law Association, ‘The Law of Climate Change’ Freemantle Western Australia, 27-28 March 2008. Nicola Durrant, ‘Liabilities of Companies and Governments for Emissions and Climate Change’, Legalwise Continuing Legal Education Seminar on ‘Legal Liability for Climate Change’, Brisbane, 16 November 2007. Nicola Durrant ‘Legal Issues in Generating and Trading Greenhouse Gas Offset Credits’ ISR Seminar ‘Environmental Trading: the Essentials’, QUT, Brisbane, 22 November 2007. Nicola Durrant, ‘Climate Change, Emissions Trading and the Law’, ISR Seminar: Advanced Solutions for Real World Problems, Brisbane, 4 October 2007. Nicola Durrant, ‘Climate Change Law and Liabilities’, Continuing Legal Education Program, Clayton Utz Lawyers, Brisbane, July 2007. Nicola Durrant, ‘Strengths and Deficiencies of the International Climate Change Regime’, Marie Curie European Summer School on Earth System Governance, Amsterdam, June 2007. Nicola Durrant, ‘Emissions Trading, Offsets and Other Mitigation Options for the Australian Coal Industry’, QCC/ EDO Seminar on Legal Responsibility for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Coal Mined in Queensland, Brisbane, May 2007. Media Releases
Carbon Trading Scheme Lawless: researcher (29 August 2008) Company Heads to Face Liability Over Climate Change (20 June 2007) Link to ISR's Climate Change Law section. Note: Email address above is protected by Javascript. Email address will appear as an image if Javascript is disabled. |
