Books
- Declaration of Peace for Indigenous Australians and Nature: A Legal Pluralist Approach to First Laws and Earth Laws, (2024) Springer, co-authored with Anne Poelina, Mary Graham, Tyson Yunkaporta et al
- The Anthropocene Judgments Project: Future Proofing the Common Law, (2023) Routledge Press, co-edited with Nicole Rogers
- From Environmental to Ecological Law, (2021) Series: Explorations in Environmental Studies, Routledge, co-edited with Kirsten Anker, Peter Burdon, Geoffrey Garver and Carla Sbert
- Law as if Earth Really Mattered: The Wild Law Judgements Project, (2017), Routledge Press, (Law, Justice and Ecology Series), co-edited with Dr Nicole Rogers
- Wild Law in Practice, (2014) Routledge Press, (Law, Justice and Ecology Series), co-edited with Dr Peter Burdon
Book chapters
- ‘Rights of Nature, Earth laws and the work of AELA’, in “The Transformative Potential of Rights of Nature. Perspectives from Arts, Activism, and Academia.”, Edited by Riccarda Fleming, Forthcoming 2026
- ‘Bioregions and Earth Law‘, co-authored with Karie Crisp, in “Earth Law: Emerging Ecocentric Law – A Guide for Practitioners”, Edited by Grant, Adam et al, 2026
- ‘A City of Good Ancestors: A Relationalist View of Urban Governance and Design’, with Mary Graham, in Designing More-than-Human Smart Cities: Beyond Sustainability, Towards Cohabitation, Edited by Marcus Foth et al, Oxford University Press, 2024
- ‘Imagining Ecocentric, Bioregional Law‘ in The Anthropocene Judgments Project: Future Proofing the Common Law, Routledge Press, Edited by Nicole Rogers & Michelle Maloney, 2023
- ‘Duties to Not Harm Ecological Systems, Plants, and Animals’ in The Routledge Handbook of Applied Climate Change Ethics, Edited By Donald A. Brown, Kathryn Gwiazdon, Laura Westra, 2023
- ‘Practical pathways to Ecological Law: Greenprints and bioregional governance’, in From Environmental to Ecological Law, Edited by Kirsten Anker, Peter Burdon, Geoffrey Garver, Michelle Maloney and Carla Sbert; Routledge, 2021
- ‘Introduction: The emergence of ecocentric law and ideas for the future of environmental law”, in Earth Law: Emerging Ecocentric Law – A Guide for Practitioners, Edited by Anthony Zelle, Grant Wilson, Rachelle Adam & Herman Greene; Wolters Kluer, 2021
- ‘Greenprints and bioregional governance: ecological economics in practice?’ in Ecological Economics: Solutions for the Future, edited by Haydn Washington, 2020
- ‘Caring for Country and Rights of Nature: A conversation Between Earth jurisprudence and Aboriginal Law and Ethics’, with Mary Graham, in Cameron La Follette and Chris Maser, Sustainability and the Rights of Nature in Practice, CRC Press 2019
- ‘Re-imagining the Common Law: Rights of Nature Tribunals and the Wild Law Judgements Project’, with Nicole Rogers, Brendan Mackey, Greta Bird and Jo Bird in Representations and Rights of the Environment: Conceptual Foundations, edited by Sandy Lamalle and Peter Stoett; Earth System Governance Series, MIT/Cambridge UP, 2019
- ‘The Wild Law Judgments Project’, in Nicole Rogers and Michelle Maloney (ed) Law as if the Earth Really Mattered: The Wild Law Judgments Project, Routledge Press, 2017
- ‘Greenprints: an Earth-centred governance approach for living within our ecological limits and creating a steady state economy’, in Haydn Washington (ed) Positive Steps towards a Steady State, published by CASSE NSW, 2017
Articles – journals and other publications
- ‘Place based, Earth centred governance in Australia‘, with Mary Graham, in “Radical Democracy: Recovering the Roots of Self-Governance and Autonomy“, edited by Shrishtee Bajpai, published by the Global Tapestry of Alternatives, December 2025
- ‘Is Sustainability Enough? What we can learn from the rise (and rise) of rights of nature and Earth laws‘, with Christina Meyers, Law Society Journal, March 2023, pp 84-91.
- Kopnina, H., Spannring, R., Hawke, S., Robertson, C. D., Thomasberger, A., Maloney, M., Morini, M., Lynn, W., Muhammad, N. Z., Santiago-Ávila, F. J., Begovic, H., & Baranowski, M. (2021). Ecodemocracy in practice: Exploration of debates on limits and possibilities of addressing environmental challenges within democratic systems. Visions for Sustainability, 15, 9–23. https://doi.org/10.13135/2384-8677/5832
- ‘Rights of Nature: Perspectives for Global Ocean Stewardship’, with Harriet Harden-Davies, Fran Humphries, Glen Wright, Christina Gjerde and Marjo Vierras, Marine Policy 122 (2020) May
- ‘The Need for Ecological Ethics in a New Ecological Economics ‘, with Haydn Washington, Ecological Economics, Volume 169, March 2020
- ‘Recognising the Rights of the Great Barrier Reef Could Help Defeat Destructive Coal Mine‘, with Mari Margil, Earth Island Journal, 5 August 2019
- ‘Rights of Nature, Earth Democracy and the Future of Environmental Governance,’ in Rebalancing Rights: Communities, Corporations and Nature, Green Institute, March 2019
- ‘Changing the Legal Status of Nature: Recent Developments and Future Possibilities‘, NSW Law Society Journal, Issue 49, October 2018, pp 78-79
- Earth Centred Governance, Dumbo Feather, 30 July 2018
- ‘The New Economy Network Australia‘, Australian Environment Review (Sep 2017), co-authored with Professor Bronwen Morgan, UNSW
- ‘Eucalyptus flavoured ecofeminism and other ecocentric adventures’, Special Collection, The Ecological Citizen, July 2017
- ‘The UN Harmony with Nature Initiative: why it matters and what it might achieve‘, The Ecological Citizen, March 2017
- ‘Building an Alternative Jurisprudence for the Earth: the International Rights of Nature Tribunal’, (2016) Vermont Law Review, Vol 41:129
- ‘What does the global Earth laws movement mean for Australian law?‘, (2015) Australian Environment Review, Vol 30 No.4&5
- ‘Responding to the Great Work: the role of Earth jurisprudence in the 21st Century‘, (2015) Environmental and Earth Laws Journal, Vol 5 Issue 1, with Pat Siemen
- ‘Finally Being Heard: The Great Barrier Reef and the International Rights of Nature Tribunal’, (2015) Griffith Journal of Law and Human Dignity, Vol 3 Issue 1
- ‘The Australian Wild Law Judgements Project’, (2014) Alternative Law Journal, Vol 39 Issue 3, with Nicole Rogers
- ‘Environmental Justice Network – Where to From Here?’, (2014) Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law, Vol 17
- ‘Ecological Limits, Planetary Boundaries and Earth Jurisprudence’, (2014) in M. Maloney and P. Burdon ‘Wild Law in Practice’, Routledge Press (Law, Justice and Ecology Series)
- ‘Earth Jurisprudence and Sustainable Consumption’, (2011) Southern Cross University Law Review, Special Edition, 2011
- ‘Public policy analysis of energy efficiency and load management in changing electricity businesses’, (2003) Energy Policy 31(5), with E. Vine, J. Hamrin, N. Eyre, D. Crossley, and G. Watt)
Selected essays and opinion pieces
- Reflections on being an Earthling, 22 April 2024
- Imposing Lunar Time Zones: A Great Leap Towards Colonizing the Moon, (2022) co-authored with Mari Margil and Alice Gorman
- Ignorance, an essay contributed to ‘rivus: a glossary of water’, Edited by Jose Roca and Juan Francisco Salazar, 23rd Biennale of Sydney
- Towards Earth-centred governance, Small Giants, 2018
AELA in-house publications and reports
- Editor and co-author – Final Report & Recommendations: 2019 Citizens’ Inquiry into the Health of the Barka/Darling River and Menindee Lakes, co-authored with Gill Boehringer, Gwynn MacCarrick, Manav Satija, Mary Graham and Ross Williams (Final Report: 30 September 2020)
- Co-Author – AELA Submission to the EPBC Act Review, March 2020
- Editor – Earth Ethics Online Journal, “Inspiring Earth Ethics: Linking Values and Action”,
- Editor – Earthwords and Artlings Anthology 2020 and 2022
- Co-Author – Submission to the Product Stewardship Act Review, 2018
- Editor – Earth Arts Catalogues – AELA Arts Programs 2022, 2020, 2018, 2016