Professor of Law
Osgoode Hall Law School
Email: brichardson@osgoode.yorku.ca
Website: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/faculty/benjaminrichardson.html

BA/LLB (Macquarie University), PhD (Australian National University)

Professor Richardson joined the faculty of Osgoode Hall Law School in January 2003. Previously, Professor Richardson was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester School of Law and, before that, on faculty at the University of Auckland. He was a founding member of the New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law. Prior to becoming an academic, Professor Richardson was a policy advisor for the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service in Australia, as well as a legal consultant to the IUCN (World Conservation Union) in Kenya and Nepal. He has published widely in the fields of environmental law, aboriginal law and financial services regulation. He is currently working on an environmental law reader with Hart Publishing.


Selection of Recent Publications

“Is East Asia Industrializing Too Quickly? Environmental Regulation in Its Special Economic Zones”, UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal (2005) 22: forthcoming.

“Uneven Modernisation: Environmental Regulation in China’s Special Economic Zones”, Asia Pacific Law Review (2005) 15: forthcoming.

"Financing Environmental Change: A New Role for Canadian Environmental Law", McGill Law Journal (2004) 49(1): 145-202.

"Diffusing Environmental Regulation through the Financial Services Sector: Reforms in the EU and Other Jurisdictions", Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law (2003) 10(3): 233-264.

"Horizontal Instruments", The Yearbook of European Environmental Law, Volume 4 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003): 479-500.

"The UK's Climate Change Levy: Is It Working?" Journal of Environmental Law (2003) 15(1): 39-58 (with K. Chanwai).

Environmental Regulation through Financial Organisations (Kluwer, London, 2002), 405 pp.

"Economic Instruments in Australian Pollution Control Law", Pollution Law in Australia, G. Bates and Z. Lipman (Butterworths, Sydney, 2002): 49-100.

"Economic Instruments in UK Environmental Law Reform: Is the UK Government 'Sending the Right Signals'?" European Journal of Law Reform (2002) 3(4): 427-449.

"Indigenous Peoples, International Law and Sustainability", Review of European Community and International Environmental Law (2001) 10(1): 1-12.

"Environmental Law in Postcolonial Societies: Straddling the Local - Global Institutional Spectrum", Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy (2000) 11(1): 1-82.