Professor Don Anton
Areas of expertise
- International Law (Excl. International Trade Law) 180116
- Human Rights Law 180114
- Environmental And Natural Resources Law 180111
- Comparative Law 180106
- Conflict Of Laws (Private International Law) 180107
- Legal Institutions (Incl. Courts And Justice Systems) 180120
- Litigation, Adjudication And Dispute Resolution 180123
- Legal Theory, Jurisprudence And Legal Interpretation 180122
- International Trade Law 180117
Research interests
- International Law
- Human Rights
- International Environmental Law
- International Law and Municipal Law
- Jurisdiction
- Law of the Sea
- Law of Treaties
- Nationality
- Peaceful Settlment of Disputes
- Polar Regions
- Sources Doctrine
- State Responsibility
- Use of Force
- Comparative Law
- Conflicts of Laws (Private International Law)
- Environmental Law
- International Arbitration
- International Trade and Investment Law
- Written and oral advocacy
Biography
Anton is an internationally recognised international law scholar and is listed in the Directory of Experts of the American Society of International Law (ASIL). He has an active international law practice. He has twice appeared as Counsel in the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and has appeared as Counsel for amici before the US Supreme Court. Anton is an Associated Fellow of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research has also taught for the United Nations Environment Programme. Anton is active with various international law bodies. He is the Co-Chair of the ASIL International Environmental Law Interest Group. He is a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law and part of the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment. He was a Member of the International Law Association's Committee Sustainable Development until the end of its work. Anton is an Associate Editor on the Australian International Law Journal and a Corresponding Editor with International Legal Materials. Anton has been a repeat Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan.
Researcher's projects
2013-2016 -- AusAID Development Research Award (approx $900.000). Sole Principle Investigator in a multiyear research project to test the truth of underlying assumptions surrounding the economic development potential and enviornmental consequences of deep seabed mining.
A rearch team led by ANU College of Law Associate Professor Don Anton received nearly $900,000 AusAID grant in 2013 for a project called Exploring the Sustainable Development Potential of Environmentally Sensitive Deep Seabed Mining Sponsored by South Pacific Developing Countries (Pacific).
This reseach team consists of ANU College of Law Associate Professor Don Anton, as Principal Investigator, and an international research team of Co-Chief Investigators, including Professor Don Rothwell (ANU CoL), Associate Professor Colin Filer (ANU CAP), Professor Rosemary Rayfuse (UNSW), Associate Professor Robin Warner(Wollongong), and Dr Joanna Mossop (Victoria University, Wellington).
i) Whether developing states subject to investigation can capture adequate revenue from deep seabed mining;ii) If so, whether this revenue will significantly help address poverty alleviation and sustainable development; andiii) Whether (and if so how) the environmental risks associated with deep seabed mining can best be minimised and managed?
Project funds:
Current student projects
PhD
Paul Govind (Supervisor) - Funding for climate change adaptation as a practical implementation of the so-called right to development.
Fanny Thornton (panel member) - Climate Change Displacement and International Law: What Place for Justice?
Scott Joblin (panel member) - The Antarctic Environmental Protocol: Functionality of present barrier protections regarding hydrocarbon extraction in the Southern Ocean deep seabed.
John Abrahamson (panel member) - Joint Development of Offshore Polar Oil and Gas Resources and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
Matthew Osborne (panel member) - Legal regulation of environmental threats to Australia's marine environment
SJD
Angela Dwyer (supervisor 2004-2008)(SJD conferred) - The Precautionary Principle and Species Protection in Australia
Masters
Masters by Research
Tamsin Paige (panel) 2012 - The Disconnect between Traditional Norms of Piracy and Contemporary Problems in Somalia
Masters Graduate Research Unit
Sophie Chapman (supervisor) 2004
Carolyn Salam (supervisor) 2003
Sharelle Hart (supervisor) 2002
Helen Murphy (supervisor) 2001
Honours
2012
Ben Hopwood - A Long Way from Geneva: Practical Failings of International Humanitarian Law in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Need for Reform
Nick Topfer - The Effectiveness of Conditionality within the World Bank
Caitlin Powell - Has the approach to international environmental law that is characterised by a focus on sustainable development been effective at combating biological diversity loss?
Tanj Ganguly - Ultimate Justice: State responsibility as the normative basis for a duty to protect the victims of anthropogenic change
Tara Schultz - Can the ICC effectively prosecute sexual and gender based violence?
2011
Catriona McKay - International Criminal Liability of Non-State Actors for Environmental Harm During Conflict (published in the ANU SSRN Honours edition)
Cassandra Kanaley - Expert Evidence Before the International Court of Justice
2010
Jinn-Khing Law - The Geoengineering Elephant: Addressing the Need for International Governance
2008
Colin Bailey - Beyond Kyoto: Anticipating Copenhagen in Australia
Julian Bowen - The Global Internal Displacement Crisis and the Role of the International Community: Closing the Protection Gap or Conceding Defeat?
2006
Lian Yong - Revising the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Jeremy Johnson - A Usable Future: The Public Trust and Water Management in Australia
Joesph Critchton - Maintaining the Pacific Ocean: Evaluation of the Dispute Settlement System in the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
2005
Sara Samios - Adequacy of International Legal Responses to the Likely Effects of Climate Change on Small Low-Lying Island States
Anton Wasson - A Bridge Too Far? The Effectiveness of the Global Environment Facility as the Financial Mechanism of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
David Nyskohus - Regulating Gene Technology in Australia: An Investigation of the Applicable Law and Compatibility Aspects of Domestic Legislation and Australia's International Trade Obligations
2004
Karen Stagoll - Europe, Human Rights and the Environment: The Requirement of a New Human Right to the Environment Within the European Human Rights System
Clinton Dengate - Enforcement of Fisheries Law in Antarctica: An Australian Case Study
2003 (University of Michigan)
Brian Schwartz - WTOs and GMOs: Analyzing the European Community's Recent Regulations Covering the Labeling of Genetically Modified Organisms (pubished in the Michigan Journal of International Law)
Aaron Ostrovsky - The European Commission's Regulations for GMOs and the Current WTO Dispute - Human Health or Enviornmental Measures? Why the Deliberate Release Directive is More Apporpriately Adjudicated in the WTO Under the TBT Agreement (published in the Colorado Journal of International Enviornmental Law and Policy)
2002
Ben Fuller - Statutory Interpretation and Environmental Law in Australia
Clare Peters - Water Wars: A Critique of the Water Management Act (2000) NSW and Its Objectives
Paul Shepherd - A Prisoner's Dilemma? Dispute Settlement Under the Convention for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna
2001
Robyn Briese - Precaution and Cooperation in the World Trade Organisation: An Environmental Perspective (Published in the Australian Yearbook of International Law)
Katrina Moore - Commonwealth Regulation of Gene Technology and the Protection of the Environment
Joanne Woodbury - Prosecuting War Crimes in Australia
Francesca Giorlando - The Requirement Under International Law to Conduct Antecedent Environmental Impact Assessments for Ultra-Hazardous Activities that Pose Significant Risk of Transboundary Harm
Haidi Wilmot - World Preservation Through World Law: The Search for International Eunomy
2000
Sanjiva De Silva - Liability for Contamination Caused by Genetically Modified Organisms
Nicholas Dimitriadis - Technocracy v. Democracy in the Regulation of Genetically Modified Organisms in Australia
Patrick Tyson - Australian SPS Measures After the WTO's "Australia-Salmon" Decisions
Claire Crocker - Delivering Sustainable Development: Law, Science, and a Strategy for Success
BE Turnbull - International Trade Law and the Regulation of Investment
Internships
Laurence Edwards - The Limits of International Environmental Law (Australia Awards intern 2012)
Kiko de Guzman - Human Rights and the Environment (Australia Awards intern 2011)
Melissa Steedman - The World Trade Organisation, Dispute Settlement Mechanisms and International Trade and Investment (paper prepared for the Australian Chamber of Commerce, 2000)
Summer research scholars
Summer Research Scholars
Suzanne Zhou (Melbourne University) - 2010-11
Kenneth Chan (University of Auckland) - 2007-08
Publications
- Anton, D 2013, 'Still this Endangered Planet', Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law 2012, American Society of International Law, New York, United States.
- Anton, D 2013, 'Twenty Years After the Rio Earth Summit: What is the Agenda for the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development?', Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law 2012, American Society of International Law, New York, United States, pp. 8pp.
- Anton, D 2013, '"Treaty congestion" in contemporary international environmental law', in S Alam, J H Bhuiyan, T M R Chowdhury, E Techera (ed.), Routledge Handbook of International Environmental Law, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Oxon UK, pp. 651-665.
- Anton, D 2013, 'The "Thirty-Percent Solution" and the Future of International Environmental Law', Santa Clara Journal of International Law, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 209-219.
- Anton, D 2012, 'The 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development and the Future of International Environmental Protection', Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 64-72.
- Anton, D 2012, 'Brief of Amici Curiae Australian International Lawyers'.
- Anton, D 2012, Why it makes no sense for Australia to be a spoiler in Rio, pp. online.
- Anton, D 2011, 'The Principle of Residual Liability in the Seabed Disputes Chamber of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: The Advisory Opinion on Responsibility and Liability for International Seabed Mining (ITLOS Case No. 17)', McGill International Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 241-257.
- Anton, D, Makgill, R & Payne, C 2011, 'Seabed Mining: Advisory Opinion on Responsibility and Liability', Environmental Policy and Law, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 60-65.
- Anton, D 2011, 'Protecting Whales by Hue and Cry: Is There a Role for Non-State Actors in the Enforcement of International Law?', Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 137-145.
- Anton, D 2011, 'Case Concerning Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina v Uruguay) (Judgment) [2010] ICJ Rep (20 April 2010)', Australian International Law Journal, vol. 17, pp. 213-223.
- Anton, D 2011, 'Public international law and international civil litigation', Precedent, no. 107, pp. 28-33.
- Anton, D & Shelton, D, 2011, Problems in Environmental Protection and Human Rights: A Human Right to the Environment, ANU College of Law Research Paper No. 11-17
- Anton, D & Shelton, D, 2011, Problems in Human Rights and Large Dams,ANU College of Law Research Paper No. 11-18
- Anton, D & Shelton, D, Problems in Climate Change and Human Rights, ANU College of Law Research Paper No. 11-16
- Anton, D, 2011 (Book Review) International Courts and Environmental Protection (2010) 29 Australian Yearbook of International Law 201-209 (published August 2011)
- Anton, D, 2011, Brief of International Law Professors as Amici Curiae in Support of Defendants in Chevron versus Donziger, ANU College of Law Research Paper No. 11-23
- Anton, D, 2011, Trying to Discipline the 'Green Economy' of Rio plus 20, ANU College of Law Research Paper No. 11-14
- Anton, Donald, Makgill, Robert, and Payne, Cymie, 2010, Advisory Opinion on Responsibility and Liability for International Seabed Mining (ITLOS Case No. 17): International Environmental Law in the Seabed Disputes Chamber, Environmental Policy and Law, Forthcoming, ANU College of Law Research Paper No. 11-06
- Anton, D 2010, 'Dispute Concerning Japan's JARPA II Program of "Scientific Whaling" (Australia v. Japan)', Insights, vol. 14, no. 20, p. 11.
- Anton, D 2010, 'Book Review: International Courts and Environmental Protection', Australian Year Book of International Law, vol. 29, pp. 201-209.
- Anton, D, Urbas, G, 2010, Why Julian Assange May Have a Case to Answer in Australia, Despite What the AFP Says (or, Why Julia Gillard Might Be Right), ANU College of Law Research Paper No. 11-04
- Anton, D & Charney JI & O'Connell, ME, 1997, Politics, Values and Functions: International Law in the Twenty-First Century, Martinus Nijhoff, The Netherlands
- Anton, D, 1997, Law for the Sea's Biological Diversity, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 36, 1997
- Anton, D, 1996, Challenge: Global Enviornmental Protection, McGraw-Hill, Sydney
- Anton, D, 1996, Nuclear Weapons - The Lawyer's Interest, Public Law Review, Vol. 7, p. 80, 1996, ANU College of Law Research Paper No. 08-13
- Anton, D, 1995, Memorandum of 6 August 1995 Addressed to President Jacques Chirac Regarding the Resumption of Nuclear Testing in the Pacific Ocean at Moruroa Atoll, Environmental and Planning Law Journal, Vol. 12, No. 300, 1995
- Anton, D, 1996, Letter of 6 August 1995 to President Jacques Chirac Regarding the Resumption of Nuclear Weapons Testing in the Pacific Ocean at Moruroa Atoll, Environmental and Planning Law Journal, Vol. 12, No. 299, 1995
- Anton, D, 2011, Problems in Human Rights and Transboundary Pollution, ANU College of Law Research Paper No. 11-19
- Anton, D, 1993, Nationalizing Environmental Protection in Australia: The International Dimensions, Environmental Law, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 1-21
- Anton, D, 1986, The Missouri Aberration: Abolition of Remittitur, St. Louis University Law Journal, Vol. 30, No. 4, 1986
- Anton, D & Shelton, D 2011, Environmental Protection and Human Rights, Cambridge University Press, UK.
- Anton, D 2009, 'Antarctic Whaling: Australia's attempt to protect whales in the Southern Ocean', Boston College of Environmental Affairs Law Review, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 319-351.
- Anton, D 2008, 'Introductory Note to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Fourth Assessment Report Summary for Policy Makers', International Legal Materials, vol. 47, pp. 94-124.
- Anton, D 2008, 'Australian Jurisdiction and Whales in Antarctica: Why the Australian Whale Sanctuary in Antarctic Waters Does Not Pass International Legal Muster and is also a Bad Idea as Applied to Non-Nationals', Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law, vol. 11, no. 334, pp. 159-192.
- Anton, D 2008, 'False Sanctuary: The Australian Antarctic Whale Sanctuary and Long-Term Stability in Antarctica', Sustainable Development Law and Policy, vol. 8, pp. 17-25.
- Anton, D, Charney, J, Sands, P et al. 2007, International Environmental Law: Cases, Materials and Problems, Document Supplement, LexisNexis, United States.
- Anton, D, Mathew, P & Morgan, W 2005, International Law: Cases and Materials, Oxford University Press, USA.
- Anton, D 2003, 'Environmental Law in Australia', in (ed.), Vers un nouveau droit de l'environnement, Centre international de Droit Compare de l'Environnement, France, pp. 229-266.
- Anton, D 2002, 'Book Review: Nuclear Weapons and Scientific Responsibility', Australian Year Book of International Law, vol. 22, pp. 229-234.
- Anton, D 2000, 'Truth, Justice and the Australian Way About Open Standing: Truth About Motorways Pty Ltd v Macquarie Infrastructure Investment Management Ltd', Environmental Law Reporter, p. 1.
- Anton, D 2000, '[Environment Defender's Office] Opposing the Multilateral Agreement on Investment', in James Goodman and Patricia Ranald (ed.), Stopping the Juggernaut: Public interest versus the Multilateral Agreement on Investment, Pluto Press, Annandale, NSW, p. 0.
