Hon Michael Kirby AC, CMG visits School

The Hon Michael Kirby AC, CMG visited The Dickson Poon School of Law recently to meet with an eminent group of legal academics and jurists to discuss the law and climate change, including climate change litigation.

“There is work for lawyers and courts to do,” he said. "[The impact of climate change] is an extremely serious matter. It’s a serious matter for Australia, with its huge coastal borders. It is a matter that is existential to many island states and countries that are low lying such as Bangladesh and Tuvalu. Climate change is going to affect hundreds of millions of fellow human beings. Therefore it is a great privilege to be involved in discussion of such matters."

Read a transcript of an interview (pdf) with Dr Eloise Scotford (Lecturer in Environmental Law) and The Hon Michael Kirby AC, CM.