Karen Bubna-Litic

Associate Professor

BJuris, LLB (WA), LLM (SYD), Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Western Australia.

Academic Profile

Karen Bubna-Litic has an LLM from the University of Sydney, with a particular emphasis on Environmental Law. Since joining the Faculty in 1994, she has taught environmental law, tax law and company law. More recently, she has specialized in teaching environmental law to law, science and business students.

Karen was the Director of Research 2002- 05 and, during this time, established LawRN (the Law Research Network) with the aim of raising the profile of Law Research within the Australian research community.

Karen has been a visiting Professor at UC, Berkeley (1995) at Lewis and Clark, Oregon (1995), at the University of Virginia (1999) and at the University of Oslo (2006). She is co-editor of the Cambridge University IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Research Studies series and an associate member of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) Academy of Environmental Law. She is currently a Director of Streetwize Communications.

Current Research Activities

Collaborative project with the University of Oslo examining the role of mandatory environmental reporting in corporate social responsibility.

The role of regulators in environmental disclosure.

Recent Publications

Chapter 3, Partnerships for Sustainable Development: Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific Region Welford, Hills, Young (Ed) Centre for Urban Planning and Environmental Management [2006]

"The thin green line: embedded? 2002 annual environmental reporting under s299(1)(f) of the Corporations Law" (2004)

"Mandatory Corporate Environmental reporting: Does it really work?", Keeping Good Companies (2004)

"The role of public participation in the disposal of HCBs- an Australian case study" Environmental and Planning Law Journal (2004) (with M. Lloyd-Smith)