The University of Western Australia

Assoc/Prof Alex Gardner

Associate Professor
Law School

Contact details

Address

Law School
The University of Western Australia (M253)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 2483

Fax

6488 1045

Email

alex.gardner@uwa.edu.au

Qualifications

BA LLB ANU, LLM Br.Col.

Biography

BA (Hons), LLB (Hons) ANU
LLM Br Col

Office: Law Link Building Room 1.40

Key research

Alex's research interests are in Natural Resources and Environmental Law, with a special interest in Water Resources Law.

Publications

2009 Publications: http://research.publishing.uwa.edu.au/research/publications/2009/law
2008 Publications:
http://research.publishing.uwa.edu.au/research/publications/2008/law
2007 Publications: http://research.publishing.uwa.edu.au/research/publications/2007/law
2006 Publications: http://research.publishing.uwa.edu.au/research/publications/2006/law
2005 Publications: http://research.publishing.uwa.edu.au/research/publications/2005/law
2004 Publications: http://research.publishing.uwa.edu.au/research/publications/2004/law
2003 Publications: http://www.publishing.uwa.edu.au/research/2003/law-school.asp
2002 Publications: http://www.publishing.uwa.edu.au/research/2003/law-school.asp
2001 Publications: http://www.publishing.uwa.edu.au/research/2003/law-school.asp
2000 Publications: http://www.publishing.uwa.edu.au/research/2000/law.asp
1999 Publications: http://www.publishing.uwa.edu.au/research/1999/LawSchool.asp
1998 Publications: http://www.publishing.uwa.edu.au/research/1998/LawSchool.asp
1997 Publications: http://www.publishing.uwa.edu.au/research/1997/law-school.asp
1996 Publications: http://www.publishing.uwa.edu.au/research/1996/law-school.asp
1995 Publications: http://www.publishing.uwa.edu.au/research/1995/law.asp
1994 Publications: http://www.publishing.uwa.edu.au/research/1994/law-school.asp

Roles, responsibilities and expertise

Since 1994, Alex has been an environmental legal consultant, especially to the Environmental Defenders Office (WA) and to Western Australian Government Agencies responsible for water resources management. He was a member of the Advisory Council to the Environmental Protection Authority of Western Australia from June 1995 to August 1999 and was appointed a senior sessional member of the State Administrative Tribunal in 2005. From October 2006 to June 2008, Alex was advising the State Department of Water on water resources law reform. In 2009-10 he assisted with advice to the Commonwealth Government on issues relating to the Murray Darling Basin.

Future research

One project will focus on sustainability of groundwater management with the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training: http://www.arc.gov.au/ncgp/centres/centres_ncgrt.htm

Funding received

Australian Research Council / National Water Commission, funding through the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training.

Memberships

National Environmental Law Association;
Resources and Energy Law Association;
LAWASIA.

Teaching

Alex currently teaches postgraduate units in Natural Resources and Environmental Law and undergraduate units in Natural Resources and Environmental Law, and Administrative Law. He has formerly taught courses in Comparative Law and Constitutional Law.

Alex also teaches Water Resources Law in the graduate program at the Australian Centre for Environmental Law at the Australian National University Law School.

Current external positions

Adjunct Professor, Australian National University College of Law, Australian Centre for Environmental Law.
Visiting Lecturer, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland
Senior Sessional Member of the Western Australian State Administrative Tribunal since 2005, re-appointed in 2010.

New and noteworthy

Alex and Professor Richard Bartlett of the UWA Faculty of Law, with Ms Janice Gray of the Faculty of Law of the University of New South Wales, have completed a five year project to produce a treatise on Water Resources Law, published by LexisNexis Butterworth, July 2009.

Papers and Presentations:
“Water Reform and the Federal System”, in G Williams et al (eds), Tomorrow’s Federation, Federation Press, forthcoming 2012.

“The Legal Protection of Ramsar Wetlands and Migratory Bird Habitat: Australian Reforms”, paper presented to the 2009 Annual Colloquium of IUCN Academy of Environmental Law in Wuhan, China, and 1 of 17 papers to be published in the conference proceedings, P Martin et al (eds), Environmental Governance and Sustainability, Edward Elgar (forthcoming 2011).

With Zhang Yanfang and Zhang Yi, “Legal Perspective of Water Environmental Protection in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area” (2008) 18(1) Journal of Environmental Management College of China 42-44 (ISSN 1008-813X)
With Zhang Yanfang, “Principles of Environmental Water Allocation and Management in Australia and China” [2008] Journal of China University of Geosciences – Social Sciences Edition 11-14 (ISSN 1671-0169)

“Exploiting the Unspeakable: Third Party Access to Sewage and Public Sector Sewerage Infrastructure”, second author with Janice Gray, delivered to the 2007 Annual Symposium of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, Canberra, November 2007.

“Environmental Water Allocations and Their Governance”, with Kathleen Bowmer, paper presented to Delivering the National Water Initiative conference, Parliament House, Canberra, December 2006.

"Environmental Water Allocations in Australia" presented at International Symposium on Sustainable Water Management, National Europe Centre, the Australian National University, Canberra, September 2005.

With V Chung, "The Law and Policy of Environmental Water Allocations in Western Australia", and "Pricing Water for Environmental Externalities", Water Law Conference hosted by the Environmental Defenders Office (WA), Perth, July 2005.

Current projects

Alex is a Chief Investigator in the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training, which is funded jointly by the Australia Research Council and the National Water Commission:
http://www.law.uwa.edu.au/research/water_resources_law

Research profile

Research profile and publications