[WEBINAR] Re-imagining the Laws of Nature – Storying the Rules of Hyperconnected Futures

Webinar recorded: 1Septmber 2022

Abstract:
This webinar considers the revolution needed across law and society to realise desirable multi-species futures on our hyperconnected planet - Earth. The webinar examines the possibilities for thriving multi-species futures by examining law through a more-than-human lens. This webinar challenges the form as well as the substance of legal scholarship to interrogate dominant values and paradigms enshrined within law. It calls for greater emotional and relational engagement with nature and explores the use of creative forms of writing such as speculative fiction and poetry as the vehicles for imagining better worlds, and by extension, better laws.

Speaker:
Dr Michelle Lim -

Michelle Lim is an Associate Professor in Law, Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University. Her interdisciplinary scholarship occurs at the intersection between biodiversity conservation and sustainable livelihoods. Lim’s work focuses on futures-oriented biodiversity law research aimed at advancing equity and sustainability under conditions of unprecedented environmental change. She is increasingly interested in approaches which allows affective engagement with scholarship and explores ways which challenge the form of scholarship including through creative and imaginative means of expression (e.g. speculative fiction, poetry).  

Lim holds a double degree in Science (Ecosystem Management) and Law (First-class Honours) and a PhD on legal and institutional arrangements for transboundary biodiversity conservation at the University of New England, Australia. Prior to joining Singapore Management University, Lim has held positions in Macquarie University, University of Adelaide and the University of Dundee.   Lim was a fellow on the Global Assessment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and an author of the IPBES/IPCC joint workshop report. She sits on the Editorial Board of the Australian Environment Review and the Advisory Board of Ambio. Lim was awarded the 2016/2017 Law Council of Australia Mahla Pearlman Australian Young Environmental Lawyer of the Year Award and the 2021 Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand publication prize for a published scholarly article or book chapter for the paper: “Extinction: hidden in plain sight–Can stories of ‘the last’ unearth environmental law’s unspeakable truth?.” Griffith Law Review. 1-32.

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