Professor Michael Jeffery QC,
Director, Centre for Environmental Law, Macquarie University

• Professor of Law in the Division of Law at Macquarie University
• Director of the Centre for Environmental
• Dean of Law during the Law School's recent restructuring.
• A former Chairman of the Environmental Assessment Board of Ontario, Canada in the 1980s

Michael practiced for many years at the Ontario Bar and was a senior partner of one of Canada's largest law firms and headed its environmental law practice group. He took up residence in the United States in 1995 to undertake research at the Natural Resources Law Centre of the University of Colorado (CU) as its Distinguished Visiting Research Scholar'(1995/96) in the area of public lands reform and continued on as an Adjunct Professor teaching environmental law subjects at CU for the following three years.

Since his arrival in Australia in September 1998, Michael has been admitted as a legal practitioner in NSW. He is a former Chair and Vice-Chair of the International Bar and American Bar Associations' International Environmental Law Committees respectively, an advisor to the Canadian Law Reform Commission and served as Chair of the Council of Canadian Administrative Tribunals. Michael is the immediate past Deputy Chair of the World Conservation Union's (IUCN) Commission on Environmental Law and member of its Steering Committee. He is currently a member of the Commission's Energy and Ethics Specialist Groups. Michael has published and lectured extensively on a wide range of environmental and administrative law issues.

Michael's academic interests include founding the Canadian Journal of Administrative Law & Practice in 1987 and was its Editor-in-Chief until 1995. He also served as the Canadian Section Editor of the Environmental and Planning Law Journal for a number of years. Michael is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the newly launched Macquarie Journal of International and Comparative Environmental Law. In addition he is a member of the international editorial board of the Journal of South Pacific Law. Professor Jeffery is the chair of the Coordinating Committee of the 2005 IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Colloquium to be hosted by Macquarie University through its Centre for Environmental Law in July. He will serve as a member of the Editorial Board for the 2005 Colloquium papers to be published by Cambridge University Press.