Daniel (Dan) is a legal scholar whose research explores the relationship between legal theory, public law, and environmental governance. His work examines how evaluative and normative commitments shape legal and institutional responses to complex global challenges, including environmental protection, animal welfare, emerging technologies, and the governance more generally of earth systems.
Alongside his theoretical work in jurisprudence, Daniel has published in areas including environmental law, constitutional law, statutory interpretation, public international law, and animal welfare and sentience. He is particularly interested in how legal systems conceptualise responsibility, regulation, and governance in the context of interconnected social and ecological systems.
Daniel is an Australian Lawyer who has held governance and advisory roles across the environmental sector, including with Greenpeace Australia Pacific, the Forest Stewardship Council Australia and New Zealand, and is an advisor to the Sentient Animal Law Foundation.
He teaches and researches in public law, constitutional law, statutory interpretation, and legal theory.