Karen Bubna-Litic Editor

Michael I. Jeffery, QC, is a Professor of Law at Macquarie University and Director of its Centre for Environmental Law, and served as Dean of Law in 1999. He received his LLB degree from the University of Toronto and his LLM degree from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. A former Chair of the Province of Ontario's Environmental Assessment Board, he was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1978 and headed the environmental law practice of one of Canada's largest law firms in the 1990s. He has served as Deputy Chair of the IUCN's Commission on Environmental Law and has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Macquarie Journal of International and Comparative Environmental Law since its inception. Jeremy Firestone is an Assistant Professor of Marine Policy and Legal Studies at the University of Delaware. He holds a J.D. from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the University of North Carolina. Previously, he served as an environmental protection lawyer for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the State of Michigan. Professor Firestone's research and teaching interests include ocean governance, wildlife conservation, energy policy, and indigenous rights. Karen Bubna-Litic is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney, and is Assistant Director of the UTS Centre for Corporate Governance. She holds a Master of Law degree from the University of Sydney. Professor Bubna-Litic has been a visiting professor at the Boalt School of Law, University of California, Berkeley; the School of Environmental Negotiation, University of Virginia; and the Program for Research and Documentation for a Sustainable Society at the University of Oslo. She is a Solicitor and Barrister of the Supreme Court of Western Australia and formerly Director of Research in the Faculty of Law.