Prue Taylor

Prue Taylor is a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland, NZ and the Deputy Director of the New Zealand Center for Environmental Law. She has published widely in the field of international and municipal environmental law. Her publications include An Ecological Approach to International Law (Routledge, 1998), Grinlinton D and Taylor P, Property Rights and Sustainability: the evolution of property rights to meet ecological challenges (Martinus Nijhoff, 2011) and The Common Heritage of Mankind: A Bibliography of Legal Writing (Fondation de Malte, 2013). A current focus of her international work is on the common heritage of mankind and its applicability as a guiding legal principle for the protection of the ecological global commons. See for example, The Wealth of the Commons: A World Beyond Market and State (Levellers Press, 2013). Her domestic focus is on climate change mitigation and multi-level governance with an emphasis on the role of local government and cities.

Prue lives in one of the most beautiful places in the world - Waiheke Island, New Zealand - together with her husband and children.