Associate ProfessorEd Couzens

BA Hons LLB (Wits) LLM Environmental Law (Natal & Nottingham) PhD (KZN)

Ed Couzens joined the University of Sydney Law School in 2015 from the School of Law, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, where he lectured for 14 years and held the position of Associate Professor from 2009. He is an attorney of the High Court, South Africa; and holds the degrees of BA Hons LLB (from the University of the Witwatersrand), LLM Environmental Law (awarded jointly by the Universities of Natal and Nottingham), and PhD (from the University of KwaZulu-Natal).

Ed was recognized as an 'Established Researcher' by South Africa's National Research Foundation for the years 2013-2018. He was the IUCN AEL Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, in January 2015, where he taught a course on 'international wildlife and conservation law'; was an Erasmus+ visiting lecturer at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in December 2019; and taught on the University of Eastern Finland - United Nations Environment Programme Course on Multilateral Environmental Agreements each year from 2004 to 2015.

He is principal editor on the Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law (APJEL); assistant editor/editor on the South African Journal of Environmental Law and Policy; and was a co-editor on the University of Eastern Finland - United Nations Environment Programme Review of International Environmental Law-making and Diplomacy from 2006 to 2016. He is a member of the Advisory Boards of Transnational Environmental Law and the Journal of International Wildlife law and Policy. He was Co-Director of the Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law (ACCEL) at Sydney Law School from 2015 to 2021; and is an Associate Member of the Sydney Centre for International Law (SCIL) at Sydney Law School. He was an executive member of the Environmental Law Association of South Africa (www.elasa.co.za) from 2010 until 2014.

Ed has attended more than 50 conferences, presenting papers at most; has attended seven Meetings of the International Whaling Commission (2007, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2022) as a member of the South African delegation or repesenting APJEL; and attended the 17^th CoP of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (2016) and the 17th CoP of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (2011).

Ed has also been a qualified Field Guide in South Africa since 1997.