Prue Taylor

Bio

"Prue Taylor is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Planning, University of Auckland, New Zealand. She teaches environmental and planning law to undergraduate and graduate students. Her specialist interests are environmental ethics, international environmental law, biotechnology, climate change, and environmental governance structures. She was part of in the first drafting sessions for the Earth Charter that took place at the Global Forum in Rio de Janerio in 1992. She became involved again in 1998 as part of the team of legal experts advising on the Charter. Dr. Taylor has worked actively in support of the Charter as a member of the IUCN Ethics Specialist Working Group. She has published a number of articles exploring the Charter in a legal context, and uses the Charter regularly in her teaching of university students." (http://www.earthcharterinaction.org/invent/images/uploads/ENG-Bosselmann.pdf)