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INTRODUCTION

1 The Wild Law Judgment Project

Nicole Rogers and Michelle Maloney

2 Writing judgments 'wildly'

Justice Brian Preston

PART I Standing and wellbeing of non-human species

3 Green sea turtles by the representative, Meryl Streef v The State of Queensland and the Commonwealth of Australia

Justice Brian Preston

4 Great Barrier Reef v The Australian Federal and State governments and others

Cormac Cullinan

5 The fraught and fishy tale of Lungfish v The State of Queensland

Benedict Coyne

6 Attorney-General (Cth); Ex Rel McKinlay v The Commonwealth

Tom Round

7 Wild negligence: Donoghue v Stevenson

Bee Chen Goh and Tom Round

8 Shaw v McCreary

Edward Mussawir

PART II Mining, climate change and communities

9 Coal mines and wild law: a judgment for the climate

Felicity Deane and Katie Woolaston

10 Quantifying the environmental impact of coal mines: lessons from the Wandoan case, Xstrata Coal Queensland Pty Ltd v Friends of the Earth Brisbane Co-op

Julia Dehm

11 Coast and Country Association of Queensland Inc v Minister for Environment and Heritage protection

Kate Galloway

12 Exploring fundamental legal change through adjacent possibilities: the Newcrest mining case

Aidan Ricketts

13 Metgasco Limited v Minister for Resources and Energy

Cristy Clark

PART III First Nations law

14 Aboriginal laws of the land: surviving fracking, golf courses and drains among other extractive industries

Irene Watson

15 Reimagining Aboriginal land rights: Crown, Country and custodians. Mabo v Queensland (No 2)

Stephen Summerhayes

16 Nuclear waste dump: sovereignty and the Muckaty mob

Greta Bird and Jo Bird

PART IV International law

17 Whaling in the Antarctic (Australia v Japan: New Zealand intervening)

Hope Johnson, Bridget Lewis and Rowena Maguire

18 Restoring the transboundary harm principle in international environmental law: rewriting the judgment in the San Juan River case

Afshin Akhtar-Khavari

PART V Criminal law and environmental activism

19 Stand with Jono: culture-jamming, civil disobedience and corporate regulation in an age of climate change

Matthew Rimmer

20 Magee v Wallace

Susan Bird

21 Duck rescuers and the freedom to protest: Levy v Victoria

Nicole Rogers

PART VI Looking ahead

22 Information environmentalism and biological data: a thought experiment

Robert Cunningham

Index

About the Author

Nicole Rogers is based in the School of Law and Justice at Southern Cross University, Australia.

Michelle Maloney is the National Convenor of the Australian Earth Laws Alliance, and teaches Earth jurisprudence at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

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