Associate Director of the ANU Centre for Climate Law and Policy (College of Law)

Grad. Dip. Env Studies (Tas),

Grad. Dip. Legal Practice College of Law (Syd),

B. Com/LLB Syd (Hons), Legal Practitioner NSW, VIC, High Court.

 

Professional Background

After leaving university, Andrew worked as a solicitor at Mallesons Stephens Jacques and later at Minter Ellison, where he was a member of the firm’s environmental and planning law group.

Andrew has also tutored in law at several colleges at Cambridge University and has worked as a legal officer at Cambridge City Council. Prior to joining the ANU College of Law, Andrew was Deputy Director of The Australia Institute and has previously worked as an environmental advisor to the Australian Democrats.

Andrew has written extensively on environmental law and policy, particularly climate change. He is currently co-writing a history of the environment and heritage portfolio under the Howard Government.

Andrew graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Law with First Class Honours in 1998. In 2001, he graduated from the University of Tasmania with a Graduate Diploma in Environmental Studies, having been awarded the Butterworths Prize for Environmental Law in 2000. Andrew was also the recipient of an exchange award to the University of Texas in 1997.

 

Research and Teaching Interests

ANU Centre for Climate Law and Policy.

International and domestic climate law and policy.

Domestic environmental and planning law and policy.

The relationship between international trade and environmental law.

Notable publications

Macintosh, A., 'Domestic Influences on the Howard Government's Climate Policy: Using the past as a guide to the future', Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law (forthcoming).

Macintosh, A. and Downie, C., Aviation and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the ACT, Report for The Australia Institute, The Australia Institute, Canberra, January 2008.

Macintosh, A., Regulating Illegal Timber Imports: A Preliminary Investigation of Legal Issues, Report for the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, ANU Centre for Climate Law and Policy, Canberra, December 2007.

Macintosh, A., Annex I Emission and Emission Per Capita Trends (Excluding LULUCF) 1990 – 2005 and 1996 – 2005, ANU Centre for Climate Law, Canberra, 30 October 2007.

Macintosh, A., Climate Change and Australian Coastal Shipping, The Australia Institute, October 2007.

Macintosh, A. and Hamilton, C. 'Human Ecology: Environmental protection and ecology', in Jorgensen, S. (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Ecology, Elsevier, (in press).

Macintosh, A. and Wilkinson, D., 'Evaluating the success or failure of the EPBC Act: A response to McGrath', Environmental and Planning Law Journal, Vol. 24, 2007.