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Brad Jessup is a Senior Lecturer at Melbourne Law School and Director of the Melbourne Centre for Law and the Environment. His expertise spans environmental law, legal geography, and interdisciplinary approaches to sustainability. He teaches courses like Environmental Law and the Sustainability Business Clinic. Previously, he practiced as a planning lawyer at Herbert Smith Freehills and held academic positions at ANU and visiting roles at Oxford, UCL, and Berkeley.
Education: PhD (Australian National University, 2019), MA Geography (University of Cambridge, Commonwealth Scholarship), LLB (Monash University, First Class Honours). His research focuses on legal geographies, environmental justice, and the intersection of queer theory with planning law. He has conducted funded studies on pipeline regulation, community values in planning law, and marine protected areas in Australia and Vietnam.
Research interests include spatial justice, climate law, Indigenous land rights, and the legal regulation of harm. His work critiques environmental law through ethnographic and theoretical lenses, emphasizing marginalized communities' perspectives. Recent projects involve queer urbanism, transboundary nuclear dilemmas, and synthetic environmental statutes.
- Awards: Best Thesis Prize (Australian Legal Research Awards, 2019)
- Grants: UoM funding for queer planning law research, Energy Pipelines CRC research
- Teams: Melbourne Centre for Law and the Environment
Teaching innovations include clinics linking law students with sustainability projects. His scholarship bridges legal theory and practice, addressing contemporary challenges like climate adaptation and energy transitions.
