Associate Professor Peter Burdon
Associate Professor
Adelaide Law School
Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.
Peter Burdon (he/him/his) is Deputy Dean (Learning and Teaching) for the Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics. He has previously been Acting Dean, Deputy Dean and Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching) for the Adelaide Law School. Peter is a delegate for the National Tertiary Education Union and a member of the ALLY Network which promotes an inclusive and respectful university environment for all who identify as LGBTIQ.
Peter's research uses interdisciplinary materials from sociology, political science, economics, philosophy, history and environmental studies. Peter is an expert in environmental theory and has written and edited books on Earth Jurisprudence and Earth Democracy. In 2021 his monograph - Earth Jurisprudence: Private Property and the Environment - was translated into Mandarin and is distributed by Routledge and the Commercial Press. In 2017 Peter published a book on Hannah Arendt and the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. He is currently completing a research handbook and a monograph on the Anthropocene.
In 2014 Peter was a visiting scholar at the University of California Berkeley, Center for Law and Society. In 2017 Peter was a visiting scholar at McGill University, Faculty of Law and a visiting professor at the McGill School of the Environment, Departments of Geography, and Natural Resource Sciences. In 2017 Peter was also a visiting professor at the Université de Montréal, Faculty of Law where he taught a course in legal theory for the inaugural LLD Innovation and Technology Program. Peter has also been invited to lecture at the University of Auckland, Faculty of Law; the University of Arizona, Faculty of Law and the School of Geography and Development; and San Francisco State University, Department of Political Science
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Research Interests
- Environmental Law and Theory
- Earth Jurisprudence
- Protest Law and Civil Disobedience
- Climate Change Law and Policy
- Political Theory
- Hannah Arendt
- Conservative Legal Thinking
- Marxist State Theory and Anarchist Political Philosophy
- Classics - Greek and Roman Myth and History.
- Legal Education
- Critical Thinking and Democracy
- Neoliberalism and the University
Orcid: 0000-0003-0967-4987
Scopus: 36503541200
Web of Science ResearcherID: N-6654-2017
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Appointments
Date Position Institution name 2022 - ongoing Deputy Dean (Learning and Teaching) Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics 2022 - ongoing Deputy Dean (Learning and Teaching) University of Adelaide 2022 - 2022 Deputy Dean (Learning and Teaching) University of Adelaide 2021 - 2021 Acting Dean University of Adelaide 2021 - 2022 Deputy Dean University of Adelaide 2016 - ongoing Associate Professor and Reader in Law Adelaide Law School 2013 - 2016 Senior Lecturer in Law Adelaide Law School 2011 - 2013 Lecturer in Law Adelaide Law School -
Awards and Achievements
Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount 2020 Award University Award for Outstanding Achievement University of Adelaide Australia - 2020 Award Covid 19 Emergency Teaching Response University of Adelaide Australia - 2020 Award Executive Dean Award University of Adelaide Australia - 2019 Teaching Award Executive Dean Award: Embedding Indigenous Knowledges University of Adelaide Australia - 2016 Award Executive Dean of the Faculty of the Professions Prize for Excellence in Teaching - - - 2016 Award IUCN Academy of Environmental Law: Emerging Scholarship Award - - - 2013 Award Citation, Early Career Award, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia - - - 2012 Award University Doctoral Research Medal - - - 2012 Award Bonython Prize for the Best Orginal Postgraduate Thesis - - - 2011 Award Executive Dean of the Faculty of the Professions Prize for Excellence in Teaching - - - 2008 Scholarship FA & MF Joyner Scholarship in Law - - - -
Education
Date Institution name Country Title 2012 - 2014 University of Adelaide Australia GCert.Ed (Higher Education) 2008 - 2011 University of Adelaide Australia PhD 2002 - 2007 University of Adelaide Australia LLB (hons) 2001 - 2003 University of Adelaide Australia BA (history) -
Research Interests
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Journals
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Books
Year Citation 2023 Burdon, P. D., & Martel, J. (2023). The Routledge Handbook of Law and the Anthropocene. Oxford, UK: Routledge. 2023 Burdon, P. D. (2023). The Anthropocene: New Trajectories in Law. Oxford, UK: Routledge. 2021 伯登. (2021). 地球法理 私有产权与环境. 2021 Anker, K., Burdon, P. D., Garver, G., Maloney, M., & Sbert, C. (Eds.) (2021). From Environmental to Ecological Law. Abingdon, Oxon; United Kingdom: Routledge. 2019 Burdon, P., Bosselmann, K., & Engel, K. (Eds.) (2019). The Crisis in Global Ethics and the Future of Global Governance Fulfilling the Promise of the Earth Charter. Cheltenham, Glos; United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing.
2018 Burdon, P. (2018). Hannah Arendt: Legal Theory and the Eichmann Trial. London: Routledge.
Scopus12015 Burdon, P. (2015). Earth Jurisprudence: Private Property and the Environment (1 ed.). United Kingdom: Routledge. 2014 Maloney, M., & Burdon, P. (Eds.) (2014). Wild Law - In Practice. Abingdon & New York. 2014 Burdon, P. D. (2014). Earth jurisprudence: Private property and the environment. Routledge.
Scopus192011 Burdon, P. (Ed.) (2011). Exploring wild law: the philosophy of earth jurisprudence. Kent Town, SA: Wakefield Press. -
Book Chapters
Year Citation 2023 Burdon, P. (2023). Subversion and Perspectivism in Teaching Property Law. In H. Gibbon, B. Golder, L. Lixinski, M. Nehme,, & P. Vines (Eds.), Critical Legal Education as a Subversive Activity. London.: Routledge. 2023 Burdon, P., & Toole, K. (2023). Education for Citizenship and Social Justice: Students as Co-creators. In H. Gibbon, B. Golder, L. Lixinski, M. Nehme, & P. Vines (Eds.), Education for Citizenship and Social Justice: Students as Co-creators. London: Routledge. 2023 Burdon, P., & Martel, J. (2023). Interrogating the Anthropocene. In P. D. Burdon, & J. Martel (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Law and the Anthropocene. Routledge. 2023 Burdon, P., & Martel, J. (2023). Myth for the Anthropocene. In P. Burdon, & J. Martel (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Law and the Anthropocene. Routledge. 2023 Burdon, P., & Martel, J. (2023). Law, Responsibility and the Capitalocene: In Search of New Arts of Living. In P. Burdon, & J. Martel (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Law and the Anthropocene. Routledge. 2023 Burdon, P. (2023). Strategies to Increase Media Coverage of Ethical Issues That Arise in Climate Change Policy Formation. In D. A. Brown, K. Gwiazdon, & L. Westra (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Applied Climate Change Ethics. Routledge. 2023 Burdon, P., & Alexander, S. (2023). EARTH JURISPRUDENCE: Anthropocentrism and Neoliberal Rationality. In V. Chapaux, F. Megret, & U. Natarajan (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of International Law and Anthropocentrism (1 ed., pp. 215-230). London, UK: Routledge.
2022 Burdon, P., & Williams, C. (2022). Rights of nature: A critique. In Research Handbook on Fundamental Concepts of Environmental Law (pp. 164-182). 2022 Burdon, P., & Alexander, S. (2022). Extinction Rebellion: Crisis, inaction, and the question of civil disobedience as ecosocialist strategy. In L. Brownhill, S. Engel-Di Mauro, E. -D. Mauro, T. Giacomini, A. Isla, M. Löwy, & T. E. Turner (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook on Ecosocialism (1 ed., pp. 242-249). London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
2022 The Political Impact of the Sustainable Development Goals (2022). Cambridge University Press.
2021 Burdon, P. (2021). The targeting of environmentalists with state-corporate intelligence networks. In K. Anker, P. D. Burdon, G. Garver, M. Maloney, & S. Sbert (Eds.), From Environmental to Ecological Law (pp. 25-39). Abingdon, Oxon; United Kingdom: Routledge.
2020 Burdon, P. D. (2020). Neoliberalism in legal education research. In B. Golder, M. Nehme, A. Steel, & P. Vines (Eds.), Imperatives for Legal Education Research Then, Now and Tomorrow (pp. 31-48). London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
2019 Burdon, P. D., & Stewart, J. G. (2019). Can social property survive under neoliberalism?: A view from Australia. In P. Babie, & J. Viven-Wilksch (Eds.), Leon Duguit and the Social Obligation Norm of Property: A Translation and Global Exploration (pp. 355-370). Singapore: Springer.
Scopus12019 Burdon, P. D. (2019). Rethinking Global Ethics in the Anthropocene. In P. Burdon, K. Bosselmann, & K. Engel (Eds.), The Crisis in Global Ethics and the Future of Global Governance: Fulfilling the Promise of the Earth Charter (pp. 92-108). London: Edward Elgar.
2019 Burdon, P. D., Bosselmann, K., & Engel, K. (2019). Fulfilling the Promise of the Earth Charter. In P. D. Burdon, K. Bosselmann, & K. Engel (Eds.), The Crisis in Global Ethics and the Future of Global Governance: Fulfilling the Promise of the Earth Charter (pp. xiii-xxi). London: Edward Elgar.
Scopus12019 Burdon, P. D., Bosselmann, K., & Engel, K. (2019). The Earth Charter. In The Crisis in Global Ethics and the Future of Global Governance: Fulfilling the Promise of the Earth Charter (pp. 284-292). Edward Elgar Publishing.
2019 Burdon, P. D., Bosselmann, K., & Engel, K. (2019). Preface. In The Crisis in Global Ethics and the Future of Global Governance (pp. ix-xii). Edward Elgar Publishing.
2017 Heath, M., & Burdon, P. (2017). Academic resistance: Landscape of hope and despair. In A. Nocella II, & E. Juergensmeyer (Eds.), Fighting Academic Repression and Neoliberal Education: Resistance, Reclaiming, Organizing, and Black Lives Matter in Education (pp. 33-45). NY, USA: Peter Lang Publishing. 2017 Burdon, P. (2017). The Earth Community and Ecological Jurisprudence. In K. Bosselmann, & P. Taylor (Eds.), Ecological Approaches to Environmental Law. Edward Elgar. 2017 Burdon, P. D. (2017). Private Property Revisited. In K. Bosselmann, & P. Taylor (Eds.), Ecological Approaches to Environmental Law. Edward Elgar. 2017 Burdon, P., & Martel, J. (2017). Environmentalism and an Anarchist Research Method. In A. Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, & V. Brooks (Eds.), Handbook of Research Methods in Environmental Law (pp. 316-337). United Kingdom: Edward Elgar. 2016 Burdon, P., Drew, G., Stubbs, M., Webster, A., & Barber, M. (2016). Decolonising Indigenous water ‘rights’ in Australia: flow, difference, and the limits of law. In T. Neale, & S. Turner (Eds.), Other People's Country: Law, Water and Entitlement in Settler Colonial Sites (pp. 58-73). United Kingdom: Routledge. 2016 Burdon, P. (2016). Property: concept, rationale, contexts. In H. Esmaeili, & B. Grigg (Eds.), The Boundaries of Australian Property Law (pp. 6-21). Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.
2016 Burdon, P. (2016). Native title: history and conflict. In H. Esmaeili, & B. Grigg (Eds.), The Boundaries of Australian Property Law (pp. 118-139). Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.
2016 Burdon, P., & Reilly, A. (2016). Deliberative democracy. In G. Appleby, & R. Dixon (Eds.), The Critical Judgments Project: Re-reading Monis v The Queen (pp. 163-178). Annandale, NSW: Federation Press. 2016 Burdon, P., & Williams, C. (2016). Rights of nature: a constructive analysis. In D. Fisher (Ed.), Research Handbook on Fundamental Concepts of Environmental Law (pp. 196-220). Gloucestershire, England: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Scopus72016 Burdon, P., & Williams, C. (2016). Rights of nature: a constructive analysis. In Research Handbook on Fundamental Concepts of Environmental Law. Edward Elgar Publishing.
2015 Burdon, P. (2015). Environmental human rights: a constructive critique. In A. Grear, & L. Kotze (Eds.), Research Handbook on Human Rights and the Environment (1 ed., pp. 61-78). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Scopus72014 Burdon, P. D. (2014). Earth jurisprudence and the project of Earth democracy. In M. Maloney, & P. Burdon (Eds.), Wild Law - In Practice (1 ed., pp. 19-30). Oxfordshire, England: Taylor & Francis.
Scopus232014 Burdon, P. D. (2014). Realizing earth democracy: governance from below. In L. Westra, & M. Vilela (Eds.), The Earth Charter, Ecological Integrity and Social Movements (1 ed., pp. 24-35). United Kingdom: Routledge.
Scopus22013 Burdon, P. (2013). The project of Earth Democracy. In L. Westra, P. Taylor, & A. Michelot (Eds.), Confronting ecological and economic collapse: ecological integrity for law, policy and human rights (1 ed., pp. 244-254). United Kingdom: Routledge.
Scopus52013 Burdon, P. D. (2013). The project of Earth Democracy. In Confronting Ecological and Economic Collapse: Ecological Integrity for Law, Policy and Human Rights (pp. 244-254). Routledge.
2011 Burdon, P. (2011). The Great Jurisprudence. In P. Burdon (Ed.), Exploring Wild Law: The Philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence (1 ed., pp. 59-78). Australia: Wakefield Press. 2011 Burdon, P. (2011). Eco-Centric Paradigm. In P. Burdon (Ed.), Exploring Wild Law: The Philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence (1 ed., pp. 85-96). Australia: Wakefield Press. -
Conference Items
Year Citation 2012 Burdon, P. D. (2012). Environmental Protection and the Limits of Rights Talk. Poster session presented at the meeting of Unknown Conference. -
Report for External Bodies
Year Citation 2020 Burdon, P. D. (2020). Torrens Governance Reforms. 2017 Bosselmann, K., Burdon, P., Taylor, P., Stewart, N., Kotzé, L., Waikavee, T., & IUCN WCEL Ethics Specialist Group. (2017). Compatibility of trophy hunting as a form of sustainable use
with IUCN’s objectives. IUCN.2017 Bosselmann, K., Burdon, P., Taylor, P., Stewart, N., Kotzé, L., Waikavee, T., & IUCN WCEL Ethics Specialist Group. (2017). Compatibility of trophy hunting as a form of sustainable use
with IUCN’s objectives. IUCN.2015 Burdon, P. D. (2015). A change in the weather? Australia and Climate Change Politics 2007–2014: Ethics and Climate Change: A Study of National Commitments (86). IUCN Publications Services. -
Original Creative Works
Year Citation 2020 Authors: Burdon PD, Alexander S. Title: Death For Gaia: Ecocide and the Righteous Assassins. Description: N/A. Extent: 110 pages.
Law Foundation of South Australia Grant 2022-2024, $30,000 for 'Modernising the Real Property Act 1886 (SA)'
University of Adelaide, Faculty of the Professions and Adelaide Law School, Combined Cat 1 and Momentum Fund Grants 2013-2015, $20,000 for 'Psychology of Property' Pilot and ARC DP Projects
University of Adelaide, Learning and Teaching Award 2020, $5,000 with Anne Hewitt, Stacey Henderson, DavidCaruso, Kellie Toole, Margaret Castles, Gabrielle Golding, Maeghan Toews & David Plater.
University of Adelaide, Faculty of the Professions, Diversity and Inclusion Grant 2017, $2,000.
University of Adelaide, Faculty of the Professions and Adelaide Law School, Combined Cat 1 and Momentum Fund Grants 2013-2015, $20,000 for 'Psychology of Property' Pilot and ARC DP Projects.
University of Adelaide, Green Loan Fund 2014, $5,000.
University of Adelaide, Green Loan Fund 2013, $5,000.
My teaching style has been influenced by the educational writings of John Dewey, Paulo Freire, bell hooks, Mary Heath and Stephen Brookfield. I seek to create an educational space that is inclusive, democratic and which encourages critical thinking.
I teach the following courses:
LAW 2561 - The Politics of Law
LAW 2526 - Legal Theory (Special Topic, Hannah Arendt & Eichmann in Jerusalem)
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Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2023 Principal Supervisor Unfulfillable Promises: On the Limits of International Humanitarian Law Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Emma Louise Lush 2022 Principal Supervisor Protecting Public Health Against Avoidable Harm from Medical Device Adverse Events Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Aminath Ali Mariya 2021 Principal Supervisor The Modern Interface of Law and Science: CRISPR Technology Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Miss Olga Christine Pandos 2020 Principal Supervisor Consent to treatment in acute care health settings: clinical practice and patient autonomy Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Patricia Carlisle 2014 Principal Supervisor Environmental Law: Ocean/Climate Science Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Claire Marie Williams -
Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2021 - 2023 Principal Supervisor Disability Discrimination in Education: A Mixed-Methods Study Examining Complaints about Compulsory-Aged South Australian and Victorian Students with Disability-Related Challenging Behaviour Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Peta Spyrou 2018 - 2023 Co-Supervisor 'Home" Among The Gumtrees: The Experience of Home Under Australian Real Property Law and in Property Theory Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Samuel Paul Tyrer 2017 - 2022 Principal Supervisor Limiting Constraints on a Global Climate Change Regime: Neoliberalism and the Global Order of States Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Geoffrey William George Leane 2017 - 2019 Co-Supervisor Posthuman Legal Subjectivity in the Anthropocene: Introducing the Cosmic Person Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Rev Jana Norman 2017 - 2021 Co-Supervisor Towards a New Law School Curriculum in Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Joshua Krook 2017 - 2023 Co-Supervisor Rule of Law in the Classroom: Teacher Interpretation and Application of Policy Regarding Teaching Methods in Undergraduate Ideo-Political Subjects in China Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Michael Shaun Patrick Hooper 2015 - 2019 Co-Supervisor Demystifying Critical Legal Studies Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time James Gilchrist Stewart 2014 - 2018 Principal Supervisor Lawful Cruelty: Six Ways in Which Australian Animal Welfare Laws Permit Cruelty Towards Nonhuman Animals Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Katherine Elizabeth Russell
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Committee Memberships
Date Role Committee Institution Country 2020 - ongoing Member Expert Reviewer National Science Centre Poland Poland 2019 - ongoing Member Expert Reviewer European Research Council (ERC) Belgium -
Memberships
Date Role Membership Country 2019 - ongoing Member Environment Institute, University of Adelaide Australia -
Editorial Boards
Date Role Editorial Board Name Institution Country 2018 - ongoing Editor Alternative Law Journal - Australia -
Offices Held
Date Office Name Institution Country 2019 - ongoing Deputiy Director Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment - International United States 2017 - ongoing Director Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment, Australasia Australia 2016 - ongoing Steering Committee Ecological Law and Governance Association - 2016 - ongoing Editorial Board International Journal of Political Theory - 2012 - ongoing Deputy Chair International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Ethics Specialist Group - 2012 - ongoing Delegate National Tertiary Education Union Australia 2011 - 2012 Executive Committee Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature - 2010 - 2013 Management Committee Environmental Defenders Office (SA) Australia 2007 - 2011 Executive Committee Conservation SA Australia
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