Contact Details
p: +61 2 9514 3249
f: +61 2 9514 3400
Location
Faculty of Law
Cnr Quay St & Ultimo Road
Haymarket NSW 2007
Room# CM05B.02.14
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Mailing Address
UTS:LAW
P.O. Box 123
Broadway NSW 2007
AUSTRALIA
Areas of Expertise
› Environment Law
› Endangered Species Protection
› Perverse Incentives
and Biodiversity Conservation
› Quarantine, Trade and
Environment Protection
› Contract
› Legal Professional Employment
Practising Certificates
Barrister & Solicitor,
Supreme Court of Victoria.
Solicitor, Supreme Court of NSW.
Current Teaching
77794 International Environmental
Law
78023 International Trade Law
and the Environment
70211 Law of Contract
76047 Advanced Contracts
Academic Profile
Angela Dwyer joined the Faculty in 2005, having previously taught at La Trobe University. Prior to lecturing Angela practiced as Barrister and Solicitor in Victoria & NSW for 18 years. As a Lecturer, Angela teaches principally in the areas of Environmental Law and Contracts.
Angela is the Law Faculty's Academic Liaison Officer and also a UTS Assistant Student Ombud.
Her particular research interest is in the area of Biodiversity Conservation and she is a doctoral candidate at ANU, with her thesis area being 'the use of precaution in the species listing process'.
On a practical level, Angela was one of the founders and co-ordinator of the Sandy Creek Land Care Group (Albury), which conducted a substantial rehabilitation and regeneration project spanning 12 years. She has been involved in the Mutton Bird surveys in Bass Strait and the conservation research on the Pacific Gull and is an active participant of the National Parks Association Biodiversity Survey Program which contributes data to the NSW Wildlife Atlas.
Angela is a scientific member of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales and a supporter of Humane Society International. She has published and delivered conference papers in the areas of world trade and quarantine regulation; threatened species listing priorities and processes; and the implementation of the precautionary principle in environmental regulation, weed regulation and enforcement of environmental law.
Current Research Activities
Threatened Species Protection under the EPBC Act
The role of the 'special' in Biodiversity Conservation
Entire Agreement Clauses
Doctoral Candidate (ANU)
2006 LSF Grant: "Entire contract clauses- do they work" (with S. Carr-Gregg)
2006 LSF Grant: "Role of charismatic mega-fauna in biodiversity conservation in Australia"
Recent Publications and Conference Papers
"Non-compliance by land managers and the enforcement of environmental law - weeds in Victoria, Australia" (with C.E. Meathrel and A.N. Everaardt), to be submitted to the Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, 2006.
"Precaution and threatened species listing: the potential of 'data deficient'", ALTA Conference Melbourne, July 2006
"The role of charismatic megafauna in biodiversity conservation", Everyday I write the book: Conference, ANU, June 2006
"Species listing and Precaution in under the EPBC Act", ALTA Refereed Published Conference Proceedings 2006
2004 La Trobe University Research and Graduate Studies Grant: "Water Institutions and Water Allocation Efficiency" (with L. Crase).
"The use of the precautionary principle in environmental management in Australia". People and Nature: Sixth Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Ecological Economics, ANU, 2003 (with G. Herath)
2003 La Trobe University Intercampus Research Incentive Scheme: "Developing a Strategic Recruitment and Staff Retention Model for Regional Enterprises", (with D. Boxall, D. Brown, S. O'Keefe and E. Patullock) .