"Acknowledgements" [2018] ELECD 487; in Lyster, Rosemary; Verchick, R.M. Robert (eds), "Research Handbook on Climate Disaster Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018) xiii

Book Title: Research Handbook on Climate Disaster Law

Editor(s): Lyster, Rosemary; Verchick, R.M. Robert

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781786430021

Section Title: Acknowledgements

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Acknowledgements The phrase Climate Disaster Law was first used by Rosemary Lyster in her book Climate Justice and Disaster Law (Cambridge University Press, 2016). This book expanded the notion of Disaster Law to climate disasters. It built upon the work of other legal academics like Daniel A. Farber, Michael Faure, Robert R.M. Verchick and Lisa Grow Sun, who, following Hurricane Katrina and the events of 9/11 in the United States, established a new area of legal academic endeavour -- Disaster Law. This edited collection takes the idea of Climate Disaster Law much further to investigate how it applies to four discrete areas of the law -- International Law, Public Law, Environmental Law and Private Law. Rosemary Lyster and Rob Verchick are deeply indebted to the many outstanding academics who have been persuaded to contribute their discrete expertise to consider the unique challenges, barriers, and opportunities which climate disasters pose for law and policy at the international and domestic levels. This collection marks a destination along the way in the development of Climate Disaster Law scholarship and provides a pathway for understanding how the law can, and should, adapt and respond to climate disasters. Rosemary Lyster acknowledges the University of Sydney Law School, which has supported and sustained her Climate Law research and teaching over the past 22 years. Rosemary is very appreciative of the support which her partner, Mark Lyster, has given her in bringing all of her writing projects to fruition. Her children, Kathryn and Matthew, who are building ...