Professor Jennifer McKay (January 2008 - April 2008)

Professor Jennifer McKay works on sustainable development and the law particularly with respect to water law and water planning processes in Australia and India. She is Director of a research centre and has over 60 publications and 9 completed Phd students.The concept of sustainable development is a wide epistimological shift for communities, a departure from older processes that did not attempt integrate decision making over various environmental realms such as urban planning and agriculture.She has conducted research with persons subjected to laws and sustainable water sharing policies and also the key actors drafting those policies to establish the barriers to public acceptance of the concept. Her research has discovered widespread acknowledgement and a desire to achieve sustainable development in all sectors of the community but also a dissatisfaction with processes set out to achieve this. The unease is, for example, with community consultation processes that come too late. She is continuing this work at Oxford in the Centre for Socio legal studies with Study leave from the University of South Australia and in Berkerley with Prof Dan Faber under a Fulbright Senior Fellowship and leave from University of South Australia. For a full cirriculum vitae, please click here <http://www.csls.ox.ac.uk/documents/JMcJayCV.doc