Peter Burdon

Biography

Peter Burdon is Associate Professor at the Adelaide Law School. He is the deputy chair of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Ethics Specialist Group, deputy director of the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment for Australasia and sits on the steering committee of the Ecological Law and Governance Association. Within the University, Peter sits on the University Student Matters Sub-Committee and the Faculty of Professions Diversity and Inclusion Committee. Peter is also a member of the ALLY Network which promotes an inclusive and respectful university environent for all who identify as LGBTIQ and a delegate for the NTEU. Peter's research uses interdisciplinary materials from sociology, political science, economics, philosophy, history and environmental studies. Peter is a recognised leader in environmental theory and has written and edited books on Earth Jurisprudence and Earth Democracy. In 2017 he published a book on Hannah Arendt and the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. He is currently working on a project about the surveillance of environmental activists and on a commentary of Karl Marx's 'On the Jewish Question.' Peter Burdon is Associate Professor at the Adelaide Law School. He is the deputy chair of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Ethics Specialist Group, deputy director of the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment for Australasia and sits on the steering committee of the Ecological Law and Governance Association. Within the University, Peter sits on the University Student Matters Sub-Committee and the Faculty of Professions Diversity and Inclusion Committee. Peter is also a member of the ALLY Network which promotes an inclusive and respectful university environent for all who identify as LGBTIQ and a delegate for the NTEU. Peter's research uses interdisciplinary materials from sociology, political science, economics, philosophy, history and environmental studies. Peter is a recognised leader in environmental theory and has written and edited books on Earth Jurisprudence and Earth Democracy. In 2017 he published a book on Hannah Arendt and the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. He is currently working on a project about the surveillance of environmental activists and on a commentary of Karl Marx's 'On the Jewish Question.'

Research Interest

Environmental Law and Theory Earth Jurisprudence Protest Law and Civil Disobedience Climate Change Law and Policy Political Theory Hannah Arendt Conservative Legal Thinking  Marxist State Theory and Anarchist Political Philosophy Classics - Greek and Roman Myth and History. Legal Education Critical Thinking and Democracy Neoliberalism and the University