Why Shark Laws Matter: Ensuring Safe And Healthy Oceans (expired event)

Effective laws are essential to protect people and sharks, and to ensure our oceans stay healthy.

Shark laws include a wide range of provisions - from fishing and finning regulations, conservation and animal welfare laws, to tourism legislation and cultural heritage protections. Erika has researched the vast array of laws in Australia and across the world, and this presentation will highlight the important role that law plays in conserving sharks and managing human activities.

Join Erika Techera as she shares both her passion for sharks and her experience in how environmental law shapes the human relationship to this magnificent and complex species.

Dr Erika Techera is a Professor of Law at The University of Western Australia (UWA). She is an international and comparative environmental lawyer with particular research interests relating to sustainable oceans governance across the Indo-Pacific region: marine environmental law, natural resources law and maritime cultural heritage protection. She has spent ten years researching and writing about laws for the conservation and management of sharks. Erika is a member of the UWA Oceans Institute, and a Research Fellow at the Perth US Asia Centre. She is a former barrister and current member of the WA Museum Maritime Advisory Committee. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and in 2016 was recognised in the Lawyers’ Weekly Australian Law Awards as ‘Academic of the Year’.