Dr Gerry Nagtzaam

Lecturer
PhD, M Env Sci, LLB, BA,

Professional Profile

Gerry's expertise spans both international environmental law and domestic environmental law.  His doctoral thesis, Global Environmental Regimes and the Tensions Between the Norms of Exploitation, Conservation and Preserevation tracked the relative influence of these three environmental norms in three case studies: the Antartica regime, the whaling regime and the tropical timber regime. 

It did so in order to test interest-driven explanations of regime formation and evolution offered by neoliberal institutionalism, against norm-driven explanations offered by constructivism.  

The thesis also explored the possibility of refining and possibly combining these two frameworks for understanding the evolution of international environmental regimes. 

Areas of Expertise

International environmental law

Australian environmental law

Ecoterrorism

Global climate change

Teaching Commitments

International Environmental Law (LAW5136)
Research and Writing (LAW1104)