Progress for All with Law & Justice highlights the work of our researchers, Centres and Institutes on the challenges outlined in the Law & Justice Strategy 2030. This is a great opportunity for the UNSW community to learn more about the impact of our work and about opportunities to collaborate.
The internal series will feature six challenges aligned with the Law & Justice 2030 strategy and Progress for All.
Join Professor Cameron Holley (UNSW Institute for Climate Risk & Response), Gillian Moon and Maria Nawaz (Australian Climate Accountability Project, Australian Human Rights Institute) for a conversation on the Climate Crisis – Governance, Accountability and Justice.
Explore how law, governance and accountability can help address one of the defining challenges of our time. The discussion will examine how environmental regulation, human rights frameworks and climate accountability initiatives are shaping responses to the climate crisis, and where new opportunities exist for research, policy and societal impact.
Learn how Law & Justice researchers are working across disciplines and sectors to address complex climate challenges, why accountability and justice matter in climate action, and how collaboration across UNSW can help drive meaningful change.
Connect with UNSW colleagues across disciplines and discover opportunities for collaboration.
Light lunch will be provided at this event.
Cameron Holley is a leading environmental law scholar and former Head of School at the School of Law, Society and Criminology at UNSW Law & Justice. He serves as the Deputy Director of the UNSW Institute for Climate Risk & Response (ICRR) and is a current co-chair of the International Network of Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (INECE) Academic Committee, a member of the Taskforce on Earth System Law, a member of the Steering Committee for the UNSW Global Water Institute and a former Director of the Connected Waters Initiative, UNSW Sydney. He was also a member of The Australian Panel of Experts on Environmental Law (APEEL).
An empirical researcher, Cameron has worked closely with Australian and international government and non-government organisations on a range of environmental and natural resource management research projects. His current research agenda is centred on water law and energy governance, including unconventional gas, renewable energy, the energy-water-food climate nexus and compliance and enforcement.
Gillian Moon is a Senior Visiting Fellow at Law & Justice, UNSW, where she has held both teaching and research academic positions since 2003. She is the founder and Research Lead at the Australian Climate Accountability Project of the Australian Human Rights Institute (UNSW). She has taught, researched and published widely in human rights law, particularly its intersections with international economic law, international climate law and development theory. She has previously practiced in public interest law, has experience in policy formulation and law reform, and was an Advisor to Commonwealth Ministers for Justice in Canberra.
Maria Nawaz is the Project Lead at the Australian Climate Accountability Project. She is a human rights lawyer specialising in climate justice, discrimination law, women’s rights, strategic litigation, and law reform. Maria was previously the General Counsel at Grata Fund, where she incubated and supported more than 60 public interest cases spanning human rights, climate justice, and democratic accountability. In 2025, Maria was recognised as In House Lawyer of the Year by the Women's Lawyers Association of NSW.
Phillip Wadds is Associate Professor in Criminology at UNSW, Sydney. His award-winning research is situated at the at the interface of criminology, urban studies, alcohol and other drug (AOD) studies and public health, and examines issues related to crime prevention, community safety, policing, nightlife and related leisure, drinking and drug consumption and violence with an overarching concern for harm reduction. His work has made significant contributions to nightlife and festival safety as well as policy and practice, and highlights his role in leadership through transformative and interdisciplinary research.
