Jacqueline Peel is an Associate Professor at the Melbourne Law School. She holds the degrees of Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Laws (Hon I) from the University of Queensland, a Master of Laws from New York University where she was a Fulbright scholar, and a PhD from the University of Melbourne. In 2003-2004, Jacqueline returned to NYU Law School as a Hauser Research Scholar and Emile Noel Fellow. Prior to her appointment at Melbourne, Jacqueline completed an internship at the United Nations International Law Commission, working with Professor James Crawford on the ILC's State responsibility articles. From 1997 to 1999 she practised environmental and planning law at the national law firm of Allens Arthur Robinson.
Jacqueline's established research interests are in the areas of environmental law (domestic and international), risk regulation and the role of science, and international trade law. She has published numerous articles on these topics in a number of prominent academic and international journals. Together with Lee Godden, she is the author of a major work on Australian environmental law: Environmental Law: Scientific, Policy and Regulatory Dimensions (OUP, 2010). Jacqueline recently published another book – Science and Risk Regulation in International Law (CUP, UK, 2010) based on her thesis examining the use (and abuse) of science in legal risk assessment processes, such as those undertaken by the dispute settlement bodies of the WTO in cases under the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement. Jacqueline's expertise and scholarship in the field of law/science is also evident in her well-regarded book on the implementation of the precautionary principle (Federation Press, 2005).
In the last few years Jacqueline has expanded her research to focus on the emerging field of climate change law. She has published articles on climate law and climate litigation in leading Australian journals and will contribute several chapters to a new book – Australian Climate Law in a Global Context – to be published by Cambridge University Press. Together with L Godden and R Keenan, Jacqueline holds an ARC Discovery grant to examine the regulatory framework for responding to climate change in Australia. She also secured a US Studies Centre grant in 2009 to undertake a comparative analysis of Californian and Australian climate change law. These projects augment Jacqueline's existing publications and teaching in the fields of environmental and climate change law.
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'Science and Risk Regulation in International Law', (1 ed, 2010).
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L. Godden and J. Peel, 'Environmental law: Scientific, policy and regulatory dimensions', (1 ed, 2010).
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'Interpretation and application of the precautionary principle: Australia's contribution' (2009) 18 Review of European Community and International Environmental Law 11-25.
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'Climate change law: The emergence of a new legal discipline' (2008) 32 Melbourne University Law Review 922-979.
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'The precautionary principle in practice: Environmental decision-making and scientific uncertainty', (1 ed, 2005).
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Domestic and international environmental law, including trade and environment interactions and climate change regulation.
Law and science in environmental law, including risk regulation and the role of the precautionary principle.
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