Meg Good

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  • Honorary Adjunct Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Bond University. Adjunct Lecturer, School of Law, University of Tasmania

Dr Meg Good BA/LLB (Hons I), GDLP, PhD is an Honorary Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law Bond University and an Adjunct Lecturer at the School of Law University of Tasmania.

Meg currently works as a Climate Campaigner at the Australian Conservation Foundation based in Sydney. She previously held senior campaigns and legal counsel roles at the Australian Alliance for Animals and Voiceless the animal protection institute. Prior to her work in the charity sector, Meg was a sessional academic at the University of Tasmania. She has also held sessional teaching roles at Monash University and Macquarie University.

Her research focuses on the recognition and implementation of the human right to a healthy environment in Australia, as well as Australian animal law and policy. Meg has volunteered extensively within the animal law sector and currently volunteers on the executive committees of the Australasian Animal Law Teachers’ and Researchers’ Association and Animalex.

UTAS Profile: http://www.utas.edu.au/profiles/staff/law/meg-good
Publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5945-4555

Experience

  • 2017–present
    Adjunct Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania.
  • 2022–present
    Honorary Adjunct Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Bond University.
  • 2023–present
    Climate Campaigner, Australian Conservation Foundation
  • 2020–2023
    Legal Counsel, Voiceless, the animal protection institute
  • 2021–2023
    Tutor in Animal Law, Macquarie University
  • 2021–2023
    Head of Campaigns and Legal Counsel, Australian Alliance for Animals
  • 2020–2022
    Senior Program Manager and Legal Counsel, Voiceless, the animal protection institute
  • 2017–2020
    Animal Law and Education Manager, Voiceless, the animal protection institute
  • 2016–2016
    Teaching Associate, Faculty of Law, Monash University.
  • 2011–2016
    Sessional Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania.

Education

  •  
    Law Society of NSW, Australian Practising Certificate
  •  
    College of Law , Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice
  • 2016 
    University of Tasmania, PhD
  • 2016 
    University of Tasmania, Graduate Certificate in Research
  • 2010 
    University of Tasmania, BA LLB (1st Class Hons)

Publications

  • 2025
    Implications of Recognising the Human Right to a Healthy Environment for Animal Protection in Australia (Book Chapter), Animal Law in Australasia: A Quiet Crisis
  • 2022
    Key animal law in Australia (Book Chapter Co-Authored), Routledge Handbook of Animal Welfare
  • 2021
    Book Review: Erin O’Donnell, Legal Rights for Rivers: Competition, Collaboration and Water Governance, Journal of Human Rights and the Environment
  • 2018
    Could Queensland be the first Australian jurisdiction to recognise the fundamental human right to a healthy environment?, Australian Environment Review
  • 2017
    Editor 's Note - Animal Law Education, Legal Education Review
  • 2017
    Legal recognition of the human right to a healthy environment in Australia: useful, redundant or dangerous? (Book Chapter), E Daly, L Kotze, J May, C Soyapi, A Kreilhuber, L Ognibene and A Kariuki (eds) New Frontiers in Environmental Constitutionalism, UNEP.
  • 2014
    Implications for the Law on Standing: Animals’ Angels e.V. v. Secretary, Dept. of Agriculture [2014] FCAFC 173., Australian Animal Protection Law Journal
  • 2014
    Water pollution treated seriously, or seriously in need of treatment?, Precedent
  • 2013
    Enhancing the knowledge-governance interface: coasts, climate and collaboration (Multiple Authors), Ocean & Coastal Management
  • 2013
    The River as a legal person: Evaluating nature rights approaches to environmental protection in Australia., National Environmental Law Review
  • 2013
    Wild Law Conference 2013., National Environmental Law Review
  • 2011
    Implementing the Human Right to Water in Australia., University of Tasmania Law Review

Professional Memberships

  • Member of the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment
  • Exec Committee Member, Australasian Animal Law Teachers' and Researchers' Association
  • Co-Founder, Animalex

Contact Meg for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision
  • Location: Sydney, Australia.
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