Dr Peter Burdon

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• Appointments

  Date	Position	Institution name
  2016	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
  2016	Award	IUCN Academy of Environmental Law: Emerging Scholarship Award	—	—	—
  2016	Award	Executive Dean of the Faculty of the Professions Prize for Excellence in Teaching	—	—	—
  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

  Ecological Impacts of Climate Change Education Policy Environment Policy Environmental and Natural Resources Law Environmental Philosophy History and Philosophy of Education History and Philosophy of Law and Justice Philosophy Political Science Political Theory Property Law

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• Journals

  Year	Citation
  2018	Burdon, P., & Heath, M. (2018). Protest and Political Communication after Brown v Tasmania. Law Society of SA Bulletin, 40(1), 10-11.
  2018	Brown, D., Breakey, H., Burdon, P., Mackey, B., & Taylor, P. (2018). A Four-Step Process for Formulating and Evaluating Legal Commitments Under the Paris Agreement. Carbon & Climate Law Review, 12(2), 98-109. DOI
  2018	Babie, P. T., Burdon, P. D., & da Rimini, F. (2018). The Idea of Property: An Introductory Empirical Assessment.
  2018	Burdon, P. (2018). Hannah Arendt and Edward Said: Exile and Binationalism. Philosophy Today, 62(2), 377-395. DOI Scopus1
  2017	Heath, M., & Burdon, P. (2017). Silencing of activism in Australian law. Alternative Law Journal, 42(3), 190-194. DOI Scopus1
  2017	Alexander, S., & Burdon, P. (2017). Wild democracy: A biodiversity of resistance and renewal. The Ecological Citizen, 1(1), 45-54.
  2016	Wawryk, A., Burdon, P., & Podgorlec, J. (2016). Siting a Nuclear Waste Storage Facility & Matters of Consent. Law Society of South Australia Bulletin, 38(3), 20-22.
  2016	Burdon, P. (2016). Book Review: Foucault and the Politics of Rights. Adelaide Law Review, 37(2), 523-535.
  2015	Burdon, P., Drew, G., Stubbs, M., Webster, A., & Barber, M. (2015). Decolonising Indigenous water ‘rights’ in Australia: flow, difference, and the limits of law. Settler Colonial Studies, 5(4), 334-349. DOI Scopus3
  2015	Burdon, P. (2015). Hannah Arendt: on judgment and responsibility. Griffith Law Review, 24(2), 221-243. DOI Scopus3
  2015	Burdon, P. (2015). Wild Law: a proposal for radical social change. New Zealand Journal of Public and International Law, 13(1), 157-177.
  2014	Burdon, P. (2014). Idealism and struggle: co-opting legal rights for environmental protection. Alternative Law Journal, 39(3), 176-178. DOI
  2014	Burdon, P., Appleby, G., LaForgia, R., McIntyre, J., & Naffine, N. (2014). Reflecting on Hannah Arendt and Eichman in Jerusalem: a report on the banality of evil. Adelaide Law Review, 35(2), 427-447.
  2013	Burdon, P. (2013). The Earth community and ecological jurisprudence. Onari Socio - Legal Series, 3(5), 815-837.
  2013	Appleby, G., Burdon, P., & Reilly, A. (2013). Critical thinking in legal education: Our journey. Legal Education Review, 23(2), 345-377.
  2013	Heath, M., & Burdon, P. (2013). Academic resistance to the neoliberal university. Legal Education Review, 23(2), 379-401.
  2012	Burdon, P. (2012). A theory of earth jurisprudence. Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy, 37, 28-60.
  2012	Burdon, P. (2012). Earth jurisprudence and the Murray-Darling: the future of a river. Alternative Law Journal, 37(2), 82-85. DOI Scopus2
  2012	Burdon, P. D. (2012). Review Essay: Property Rights and Sustainability: The Evolution of Property Rights to Meet Ecological Challenges'. Adelaide Law Review, 33(2), 581-586.
  2011	Burdon, P. (2011). Earth jurisprudence: private property and earth community. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 144(3), 109-110.
  2011	Burdon, P. (2011). The jurisprudence of Thomas Berry. Worldviews: global religions, culture, and ecology, 15(2), 151-167. DOI Scopus1
  2011	Burdon, P. (2011). Earth rights: the theory. IUCN Academy of Environmental Law e-Journal, 2011(1), 1-12.
  2010	Burdon, P. (2010). The rights of nature: Reconsidered. Australian Humanities Review, 49, 69-89.
  2010	Burdon, P. (2010). Wild law: The philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence. Alternative Law Journal, 35(2), 62-65. DOI Scopus9
  2010	Burdon, P. (2010). What is good land use? From rights to relationship. Melbourne University Law Review, 34(3), 708-735. Scopus4 WoS6
  2010	Burdon, P. D., & Burdon, P. D. (2010). What is Good Land Use? From Rights to Responsibilities. Melbourne University Law Review, 34(3), 708-735.
  2008	Burdon, P. (2008). Native title and the clash of civilisations. Chain Reaction, 104, 21-22.

• Books

  Year	Citation
  2018	Burdon, P. (2018). Hannah Arendt: Legal Theory and the Eichmann Trial. London: Routledge. DOI Scopus1
  2015	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.
  2011	Burdon, P. (Ed.) (2011). Exploring wild law: the philosophy of earth jurisprudence. Kent Town, SA: Wakefield Press.

• Book Chapters

  Year	Citation
  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.
  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). New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing.
  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: The 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). Edward Elgar Publishing. DOI Scopus2
  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. DOI Scopus1
  2014	Burdon, P. (2014). Earth jurisprudence and the project of Earth democracy. In M. Maloney, & P. Burdon (Eds.), Wild Law - In Practice (1 ed., pp. 19-30). Taylor & Francis. DOI Scopus9
  2014	Burdon, P. (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. DOI Scopus1
  2013	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. DOI Scopus2
  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
  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.

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 1506 - Property Law

LAW 2526 - Legal Theory (Special Topic, Hannah Arendt & Eichmann in Jerusalem)

LAW 3505 - Aboriginal Peoples and the Law

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• Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2018	Co-Supervisor	Investing in 'Home': Theorising the State's Role in Distributing 'Home' Ownership. Is there a Just Distribution of 'Home' in Australia, and whose Responsibility is this?	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Samuel Paul Tyrer
  2017	Co-Supervisor	Improving legal education in Australia: towards a new law school curriculum	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Joshua Krook
  2017	Principal Supervisor	International Law, International Relations and Climate Change	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Geoffrey William George Leane
  2017	Co-Supervisor	Replacing the Anthropocentric Legal Subject with an Ecocentric Legal Subject as a Means of Securing the Health and Future Flourishing of the Whole Community Life on Earth	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Rev Jana Norman
  2017	Co-Supervisor	Opinion as Law: University Compliance with Ideo-Political Education Policy Regarding Pedagogy in Chinese Universities	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Mr Michael Shaun Patrick Hooper
  2015	Principal Supervisor	The Legal Mind	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr David William Moon
  2015	Co-Supervisor	Critical Legal Studies (CLS)	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	James Gilchrist Stewart
  2014	Principal Supervisor	Environmental Law: Ocean/Climate Science	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full 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
  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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• Editorial Boards

  Date	Role	Editorial Board Name	Institution	Country
  2018 - ongoing	Editor	Alternative Law Journal	—	Australia

• Offices Held

  Date	Office Name	Institution	Country
  2017 - ongoing	Deputy Director	Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment, Australasia	—
  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

• Position: Associate Professor
• Phone: 83134446
• Email: peter.d.burdon@adelaide.edu.au
• Campus: North Terrace
• Building: Ligertwood Building, floor 3
• Room: 3 28
• Org Unit: Adelaide Law School