Environmental Law Dimensions of Human Rights

Ben Boer, Distinguished Professor at Wuhan University, Emeritus Professor at University of Sydney

Professor Ben Boer has been teaching and researching in the field of national and international environmental law since 1979. He specializes in the Asia Pacific region, in the fields of sustainable development, natural and cultural heritage conservation, biodiversity, and human rights and the environment. He was appointed as a Distinguished Professor at Wuhan University Law School in its Research Institute of Environmental Law, and is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Sydney Law School. He was the international director of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law based at the University of Ottawa from 2006 to 2008. He was appointed as Deputy Chair of the World Commission on Environmental Law by the Council of IUCN in 2012. He has served as a consultant to various intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations and foreign aid agencies in a number of countries in the Asia-Pacific region over the past 25 years.

1. Square Pegs and Round Holes? Environmental Rights and the Private Sector, Natasha Affolder
2. Benefit- Sharing as a Bridge between the Environmental and Human Rights Accountability of Multinational Corporations, Elisa Morgera
3. The Environmental Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights: A Comparative Perspective, Riccardo Pavoni
4. Access to Environmental Justice in the European Courts, Ludwig Kramer
5. Environmental and Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific, Ben Boer
6. Human Displacement and Climate Change in the Asia-Pacific, Stefan Gruber
7. Human Rights and the Environment: Where Next?, Alan Boyle