Publications

BOOKS

The Law of the Sea and the Planetary Crisis

Edited by: Nengye Liu, Shirley V. Scott 

First Published: 7 March 2025

Publisher: Routledge


Sustainable Development in EU Foreign Investment Law​​​​

By: Stefanie Schacherer

First Published: 24 August 2021

Publisher: Brill’s Nijhoff International Investment Law Series 


SPECIAL ISSUES

Law in a hyperconnected world: Joining the dots for sustainable futures

Issue edited by: Michelle Lim, Nengye Liu, Stefanie Schacherer

Pages: 153-341

First Published: July 2024

Journal: Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law: Volume 33, Issue 2


EDITORIALS

Law in a hyperconnected world: Joining the dots for sustainable futures

By: Michelle Lim, Nengye Liu, Stefanie Schacherer

Pages: 155-158

First Published: 26 June 2024

Journal: Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law: Volume 33, Issue 2


Introduction to the Special Issue: Strengthening Australia-China Biodiversity Dialogue in a Changing World​​​​​​​​​​​

By: Nengye Liu, Michelle Lim and Shawkat Alam

Pages: 1-7

First Published: 21 June 2023

Journal: Chinese Journal of Environmental Law: Volume 7, Issue 1

JOURNAL ARTICLES

China in the UNCLOS and BBNJ Negotiations, Yesterday Once More?​​​​

By: Nengye Liu and Shirley V. Scott 

Pages: 1-20

First Published: November 2024

Journal: Leiden Journal of International Law: Volume 38


Establishing Marine Protected Areas in the Southern Ocean, Lessons for the BBNJ Agreement​​​​​​​​​​​

By: Nengye Liu

Pages: 1-7

First Published: July 2024

Journal: Marine Policy: Volume 165


Offsetting ​​​

By: Paul Govind, Donna Houston, Michelle Lim, Andrew McGregor, Emily O’Gorman, Sandie Suchet-Pearson, and Jonathan Symons

Pages: 426-432

First Published: 1 July 2024

Journal: Environmental Humanities: Volume 16, Issue 2 


Building Responsible and Sustainable Supply Chain Frameworks: Limits of International Investment Law and the CSR Initiatives Taken by the EU and China​​​​​​​​​​​

By: Stefanie Schacherer 

Pages: 347-369

First Published: 23 May 2024

Journal: Asia Pacific Law Review: Volume 32, Issue 2


The three eras of Australian practice on MPAs: the interaction between national and international law and policy​​​​

By: Ethan Beringen, Nengye Liu and Michelle Lim 

Pages: 379-409

First Published: 28 June 2023

Journal: Australian Journal of Maritime & Ocean Affairs: Volume 16, Issue 4


The shifting baseline syndrome as a connective concept for more informed and just responses to global environmental change​​​​​​​​​​​

By: Heidi K. Alleway, Emily S. Klein, Liz Cameron, Kristina Douglass, Ishtar Govia, Cornelia Guell, Michelle Lim, Libby Robin and Ruth H. Thurstan

Pages: 885-896

First Published: 15 May 2023

Journal: People and Nature: Volume 5, Issue 3


Towards a transnational approach to transboundary haze pollution: Governing traditional farming in fire-prone regions of Indonesia​​​​​​​​​​​

By: Shawkat Alam, Laely Nurhidayah and Michelle Lim 

Pages: 424-450 

First Published: April 2023

Journal: Transnational Environmental Law: Volume 12, Issue 2


Earth steward: Will Steffen's contributions to Earth System Science, governance and law​​​​

By: Wiebren Johannes Boonstra, Rakhyun E. Kim, Louis J. Kotzé, Michelle Lim, Paulo Magalhães, Brian J. Preston, Johan Rockström and Prue Taylor

Pages: 995-1003

First Published: April 2023

Journal: Ambio: Volume 52, Issue 6


The Polar Silk Road and the future governance of the Northern Sea Route​​​​

By: Nengye Liu and Jan Jakub Solski

Pages: 853-866

First Published: 5 September 2022

Journal: Leiden Journal of International Law: Volume 35, Issue 4 


A plea for survival: Can the return to eco-centrism strengthen the legal protection of nature in Sri Lanka?​​​​

By: Asanka Edirisinghe and Michelle Lim 

Pages: 149-181

First Published: June 2022

Journal: Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law: Volume 24, Issue 2


Governing for transformative change across the biodiversity–climate–society nexus​​​​

By: Unai Pascual, Pamela D. McElwee, Sarah E. Diamond, Hien T. Ngo, Xuemei Bai, William WL Cheung, Michelle Lim et al 

Pages: 684-704

First Published: 1 June 2022

Journal: BioScience: Volume 72, Issue 7


Regulating Exceptions for Research and Exploratory Fishing in Southern Ocean Marine Protected Areas: A Comparative Analysis on Balancing Conservation and Commercial Use​​​​

By: Nengye Liu, Alexander Proelss and Valentin Schatz

Pages: 60-83

First Published: 21 March 2022

Journal: Ocean Development and International Law: Volume 53, Issue 1


CHANS-Law: preventing the next pandemic through the integration of social and environmental law​​​​

By: Kirsten Davies, Michelle Lim, Tianbao Qin and Philip Riordan

Pages: 577-597

First Published: 13 March 2022

Journal: International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics: Volume 22, Issue 3


Developing socio-ecological scenarios: A participatory process for engaging stakeholders​​​​

By: Andrew Allan, Emily Barbour, Robert J. Nicholls, Craig Hutton, Michelle Lim, Mashfiqus Salehin, and Md Munsur Rahman

First Published: 10 February 2022

Journal: Science of the Total Environment: Volume 807


Transformative governance of biodiversity: insights for sustainable development​​​​

By: Ingrid J. Visseren-Hamakers, Jona Razzaque, Pamela McElwee, Esther Turnhout, Eszter Kelemen, Graciela M Rusch, Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Ivis Chan, Michelle Lim et al

First Published: December 2021

Journal: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability: Volume 53



BOOK CHAPTERS

Defining (Sustainable) Investment and Investors

In Cordonnier Segger MC and Stephenson S (eds), Research Handbook on Investment Law and Sustainable Development​​​​

By: Stefanie Schacherer and August Reinisch

First Published: April 2025

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing 


International fisheries as the “whale in the room” at the negotiations
for a new instrument for biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction

In Nengye Liu, Shirley V. Scott (eds), The Law of the Sea and the Planetary Crisis​​​​

By: Ethan Beringen 

First Published: 7 March 2025

Publisher: Routledge


Geopolitical Changes and Futures of CCAMLR

In Shirley V. Scott, Tim Stephens and Jeffery McGee (eds), Geopolitical Change and the Antarctic Treaty System: Historical Lessons, Current Challenges​​​​

By: Nengye Liu

Pages: 201-214

First Published: 28 December 2024

Publisher: Springer Nature


​​​​​​​Futures methods for environmental law research

Chapter 4 in Paul Martin, Solange Teles da Silva, Marcia Leuzinger, Miriam Verbeek and Andrew Lawson (eds), Non-doctrinal Research Methods in Environmental Law​​​​

By: Natalie P. Stoianoff, Paul Martin and Michelle Lim

Pages: 57-81

First Published: 12 September 2023

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing


China and the Polar Regions

In Yoshifumi Tanaka, Rachael Johnstone and Vibe Ulfbeck (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Polar Law​​​​

By: Nengye Liu, Sanna Kopra & Jiliang Chen 

Pages: 512-526

First Published: 2023

Publisher: Routledge 



Rethinking and upholding justice and equity in transformative biodiversity governance​​​​​​​

In Ingrid Visseren-Hamakers & Marcel Kok (eds), Transforming Biodiversity Governance​​​​

By: Jonathan Pickering, Brendan Coolsaet, Neil Dawson, Kimberly Marion Suiseeya, Cristina YA Inoue and Michelle Lim

Pages: 155-178

First Published: 26 May 2022

Publisher: Cambridge University Press