Kate Miles
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Profile
Degrees
BA LLB LLM (Hons I) Auck LLM NYU
Courses Taught
- International Law
- International Trade and Environment
Areas of Interest
- Public International Law
- International Environmental Law
- International Investment Law
- Investment Trade Regulation
Brief Biographical Detail
Kate Miles specialises in international investment law and international environmental law. She has published work on issues relating to international investment law, sustainable finance, and voluntary codes of corporate conduct. She has recently been appointed as a Legal Research Fellow of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, Montreal. She is a member of the Society of International Economic Law, the Sydney Centre for International Law, and the Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law. She is also an Assistant Editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law.
Kate has an LL.M. in Environmental Law (Hons I) from the University of Auckland, and an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from NYU School of Law. She has taught at King’s College, University of London, and studied at UCL. She was awarded an Australian Postgraduate Award to pursue her doctorate at the University of Sydney on the interrelationship between international investment law and principles of environmental protection. She has been lecturing at the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney since 2004. She has also practiced in leading commercial law firms in Auckland and Sydney, including at Allens Arthur Robinson, Sydney.
Publications
Book Chapters | Refereed Journal Articles | Book Reviews | Conference / Seminar Papers | Media
Book Chapters
- Miles, K, ‘Sustainable Development, National Treatment and Like Circumstances in Investment Law’ in Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Andrew Newcombe and Markus Gehring (eds), Sustainable Development in International Investment Law, Kluwer (forthcoming)
- Miles, K, ‘Reconceptualising International Investment Law: Bringing the Public Interest into Private Business’ in Meredith Kolsky Lewis and Susy Frankel (eds), International Economic Law and National Autonomy, Cambridge University Press: UK (forthcoming 2009)
- Miles, K, ‘Targeting Financiers: Can Voluntary Codes of Conduct for the Investment and Financing Sectors Achieve Environmental and Sustainability Objectives?', in Kurt Deketelaere et al (eds) Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation-Volume V, Oxford University Press: UK (2008) 947-962
- Miles, K ‘International Investment Law: Origins, Imperialism and Conceptualizing the Environment’ (2009) 21(1) Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy (forthcoming).
- Nottage, L & Miles, K, ‘‘Back to the Future’ for Investor-State Arbitrations: Revising Rules in Australia and Japan to Meet Public Interests’ (2009) 26(1) Journal of International Arbitration 25
- Miles, K, ‘Transforming Foreign Investment: Globalisation, the Environment, and a Climate of Controversy’ (2007) 7 Macquarie Law Journal 81
- Miles, K, ‘Innovative Financing: Filling in the Gaps on the Road to Sustainable Environmental Funding’ (2005) 14(3) Review of European Community and International Environmental Law 202
- Miles, K, ‘Book Review: Socially Responsible Investment Law, Benjamin J Richardson’ (2009) 12(1) Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law 237-239
- Miles, K, ‘Review of The Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law, Daniel Bodansky, Jutta Brunnee & Ellen Hey (eds), Oxford University Press (2007) 1056pp, ISBN 9780199269709’ (2007) 10(3&4) Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law 303-305
- Miles, K, ‘Review of Environmental Law for Sustainability, Benjamin J Richardson & Stepan Wood (eds.)’ (2006) 15(3) Review of European Community and International Environmental Law 352
Conference Papers/Seminar Papers
- Miles, K, ‘A Political Juncture for International Investment Law: Breaking from the Past or Reproducing Economic Imperialism?’ presented at The Politics of International Economic Law: The Next Four Years, American Society of International Law, International Economic Law Interest Group Biennial Conference, Washington DC, United States, November 2008.
- Miles, K, ‘Foreign Investment Law and the UNFCCC/Kyoto Protocol: Barriers to Addressing Climate Change’, presented at Climate Change and its Challenges for the International Legal System, Annual Conference, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London, October 2008.
- Miles, K, ‘The Role of the Private Sector in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation’, presented at Climate Change and Developing Countries: International Legal and Financial Instruments, Asia-Pacific Regional Seminar, International Development Law Organization, Sydney, October 2008 (invited speaker).
- Miles, K, ‘Investing in Adaptation: Financing Climate Change Adaptation Measures in Developing States’, presented at Climate Law in Developing Countries Post 2012: North and South Perspectives, IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, Ottawa, Canada, September 2008.
- Miles, K, ‘Acclimatising International Investment Law: The Interaction between Investment Rules and Climate Change Mitigation Measures’, presented at Intersections between Global Climate Change Law and Policy, Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law Conference, Sydney, August 2008.
- Miles, K, ‘International Investment Law and Climate Change: Issues in the Transition to a Low Carbon World’, presented at New Horizons of International Economic Law, The Inaugural Conference of the Society of International Economic Law, Geneva, Switzerland, July 2008.
- Miles, K & Nottage, L, ‘Back to the Future for Investor-State Arbitrations: Revising Rules for Public Interests’, presented at Security, Scarcity, Struggle: The Dilemmas of International Law, the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law, Canberra, June 2008.
- Miles, K & Nottage, L, ‘Back to the Future for Investor-State Arbitrations: Revising Rules to Meet Public Interests’, presented at Sydney Centre for International Law Seminar Series, Sydney Law School, April 2008.
- Miles, K, ‘Reconceptualising International Investment Law: Bringing the Public Interest into Private Business’, presented at International Economic Law and National Autonomy: Convergence or Divergence?, The Inaugural Conference of the New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law, Wellington, New Zealand, December, 2007.
- Miles, K, ‘Funding Climate Change Adaptation: A Role for Decentralised Innovative Financing Mechanisms’, presented at The Third Plenary Meeting, Leading Group on Solidarity Levies to Fund Development, Seoul, South Korea, September 2007 (invited participant).
- Miles, K, ‘Investor-State Arbitration and Broader Issues for Public International Law’, presented at the Diploma on International Commercial Arbitration, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Australia)/UNSW, Sydney, July 2007.
- Miles, K, ‘Targeting Financiers: Can Voluntary Codes of Conduct for the Investment and Financing Sectors Achieve Environmental and Sustainability Objectives?’, presented at Instruments of Change for a Sustainable Economy, The Seventh Annual Global Conference on Environmental Taxation, Ottawa, Canada, October 2006.
- Miles, K, ‘Globalisation and the Transformation of International Law: Collision Course or Harmony for Foreign Investment and the Environment’, presented at Globalisation and the Quest for Social and Environmental Justice: The Relevance of International Law in an Evolving World Order, Macquarie University Law Seminar Series, Sydney, August 2006.
- Miles, K, ‘The Philosophy of Environmentalism’, Intersections Seminar Series, University of Sydney, Faculty of Law, May 2006.
- Miles, K, ‘Innovative Financing for Biodiversity Conservation’, presented at Biodiversity Conservation, Law and Livelihoods: Bridging the North-South Divide, The Third Colloquium of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, Sydney, July 2005.
- Miles, K, Interview, Carbon & Environment Daily, ‘Foreign Investors Empowered to Slow Climate Policy, Lawyer Warns’, 19 August 2008.
- Miles, K, Interview, ABC National Radio, ‘China: Green Credit Scheme to Fight Pollution’, 3 August 2007.