Andrew Burke
Associate Lecturer
Macquarie Law School
Macquarie University
Australia
Biography
Dr Andrew Burke is an Associate Lecturer at Macquarie Law School. He completed a BSc (Environmental Resource Management) LLB at Macquarie University and a subsequent LLM at the University of Sydney. Andrew's PhD thesis is concerned with proportionality in the sentencing of environmental crimes in the Land and Environment Court of NSW. Andrew is a former Director of EDO NSW, a specialist environmental legal centre. Prior to joining Macquarie Law School, Andrew was a solicitor in private practice specialising in criminal defence.
Research Interest
Criminal defence
Publications
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Federated States of Micronesia v Czech Republic: greenhouse emissions as transboundary pollution Burke, A. 2011 In : Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law. 14, 1-2, p. 203-211 9 p.
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Threatened species, endangered justice: how additional maximum penalties for harming threatened species have failed in practice Burke, A. 2016 In : Environmental and Planning Law Journal. 33, p. 451-466 16 p.
