A podcast created by staff and students affiliated with the University of Sydney Law School's Social Justice Advisory Board. In each episode, students sit down with academics to discuss what social justice means to them, and how their work intersects with social justice goals. Through these conversations, we explore the meaning of social justice and highlight the range of social justice research being carried out by academics working in or affiliated with the University of Sydney Law School.
Just Cause
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A podcast created by staff and students affiliated with the University of Sydney Law School's Social Justice Advisory Board. In each episode, students sit down with academics to discuss what social justice means to them, and how their work intersects with social justice goals. Through these conversations, we explore the meaning of social justice and highlight the range of social justice research being carried out by academics working in or affiliated with the University of Sydney Law School.
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April 6, 2026
Orla Kelleher: New Developments in Climate Litigation and Human Rights
As the climate crisis continues to damage our world, how has environmental litigation evolved to address it? How do courts engage with the United Nations Framework on Climate Change? Can judicial review be an effective means of enforcing compliance with environmental law? In this episode, Sydney Law School PhD candidate Libby Newton speaks with Dr Orla Kelleher, Assistant Professor at Maynooth University's School of Law and Criminology, about how climate change litigation intersects with human rights, and on recent legal developments in the field. Drawing from Orla's experience in Irish, European and international environment law, this episode considers how claims under human rights law can intersect with climate change, and tackles how legal practitioners, academics and the judiciary can join efforts to combat the climate crisis. Dr Orla Kelleher joined Maynooth University's School of Law and Criminology in August 2022. Orla specialises in climate change, environmental, and human rights law. Her current research focuses on environmental rights, climate law and litigation, climate justice, and just transitions. Orla was awarded her Ph.D. without corrections from UCD Sutherland School of Law in March 2022. Her Ph.D. examined the impact of climate change on legal reasoning in rights-based systemic climate change litigation in European countries.
December 8, 2025
Rachel Killean and Lauren Dempster: Gaza, Environmental Damage and Green Transitional Justice
How can the damage inflicted by Israel on Palestine’s natural environment be framed as a violation of international law? When responding to conflict, how can nature be properly valued in the delivery of transitional justice? What, then, could "green transitional justice” mean for Palestine and its natural environment? In this final episode of Just Cause’s third season, LLB student Eamonn Murphy speaks with Dr Rachel Killean and Dr Lauren Dempster about their new book, Green Transitional Justice, and their ecocentric approach to transitional justice that seeks to properly redress harms to nature. We consider how green transitional justice functions at large, and how it needs to be driven by Indigenous and grassroots voices, before ending with a discussion of how we might practically apply the principles of green transitional justice with respect to Palestine in the context of Israel’s ongoing military assault. Dr Rachel Killean is a Senior Lecturer and the current Associate Dean for Student Life in Sydney Law School. Dr Lauren Dempster is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law and Fellow of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. Their new book, Green Transitional Justice, is available here: https://www.routledge.com/Green-Transitional-Justice/Killean-Dempster/p/book/9781032206202. Note: in Lauren's application of green transitional justice to Palestine, she refers to several papers that inform her response. Please see links to them below. Research by Irus Braverman on Israel’s control of nature of Palestine as an element of the settler-colonial project: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517915261/settling-nature/. Research by Rehab Nazzal on the importance of olive trees for Palestinians: https://revistas.usal.es/dos/index.php/2254-1179/article/view/27675. Report by the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies: https://arava.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Environmental-Humanitarian-Impacts-of-War-in-Gaza_reduced.pdf.
December 1, 2025
Colin King: Following the Money – Does Financial Crime Law Deliver Justice?
Governments spend billions each year fighting money laundering and terrorist financing, but do these regimes actually make the world fairer or simply more complicated? In this episode, LLB Student Joshua Mortensen speaks with Professor Colin King, a financial crime expert at Sydney Law School, about whether anti money laundering and counter terrorism financing regulations truly serve justice. Colin King is a Professor at Sydney Law School. Originally from Limerick, Ireland - where he completed his LLB and PhD - Colin then moved to the UK for 14 years before arriving in Sydney in 2023. His research focuses on financial crime, particularly money laundering; proceeds of crime; and deferred prosecution agreements.
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