Anton teaches, researches, and advises in core areas of international law and
organisation. He has been a member of the faculty at the Australian National University
College of Law (ANU) since 2000. He served as Acting-Director of the Australian Centre
for Environmental Law and Convener of all Environmental Law Programs at the ANU until
July 2003. He has taught across a wide range of subjects including International Law,
Human Rights, International Environmental Law, Human Rights and the Environment,
International Climate Change Law, Marine and Coastal Law, International Trade and the
Environment, International Procedure and Advocacy, Federalism and the Environment,
Environmental Dispute Settlement, Property and Torts. 

Anton has an active international law practice. In 2010 he appeared as Counsel on behalf
of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in the Seabed Disputes
Chamber of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Case No. 17,
Responsibilities and Obligations of States Sponsoring Persons and Entitities with Respect
to Activities in the Area. In 2011, Anton is serving as Counsel and Attorney of Record
for thrity eminent amici curiae international law professors on issues of public
international law in Chevron v. Donziger -- an appeal in the U.S. involving a US$8.4
billion dollar judgment in Ecuador against Chevron. Amici include Stephen McCaffery,
Martii Koskenneimi, Manfred Lachs, Linda Malone, Christopher McCrudden, Naomi
Roht-Arriaza, Cesare Romano, Gerry Simpson, Karl Wellens, and Burns Weston. 

Anton consults regularly with government and international organizations on matters of
international law. He has been a consultant to the Australian Department of Foreign
Affairs and Trade, the Australian Fisheries Management Authority, the Great Barrier Reef
Marine Park Authority, and the Australian Senate Committee on Environment. He has also
taught for the United Nations Environment Programme and currently works with the United
Nations Institute for Training and Research. 

Anton is active with various international law bodies. He is currently a Member of the
International Law Association's Committee on International Law on Sustainable
Development. He is the Co-Chair of the American Society of International Law
International Environmental Law Interest Group. Anton has also been a member of the IUCN
Commission on Environmental Law since 1997 and recently was invited to become part of the
Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment. Anton served on the
Executive Council of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law in 2007
and 2008. He was also part of the 2008-2009 American Society of International
Law/American Bar Association Joint Taskforce on Treaties in U.S. Law. The Taskforce
Report was adopted by the American Bar Assocition in 2010. 

Anton also holds a number of international law editorial positions. He currently serves
as an Associate Editor on the Australian International Law Journal and as a Corresponding
Editor with International Legal Materials published by the American Society of
International Law. 

Anton has taught the pathbreaking compulsory Transnational Law subject and International
Environmental Law as a Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan (2008-09; 2003)
and International Human Rights as a Visiting Professor at the University of Alabama
(2007). He also served as a Visiting Lecturer teaching international law subjects at
University of Sydney (1997-1999) and the University of Adelaide (1995-96). He served as a
Lecturer in Law at the University of Melbourne from 1994-1997. From 1992-1993, Anton was
employed as a Research Associate in International Law at Columbia University Law School
in New York working with Professors Louis Henkin and Oscar Schachter. 

Anton is an Australian Research Council Expert of International Standing in international
law. He was the Chairperson of the ACT Fulbright Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Awards
Selection Committee from 2006-2008. While in practice in the U.S. he served as an Idaho
Bar Examiner. 

Anton is admitted to practice law in the United States and Australia. He has a law degree
from St. Louis University and a B.S. in political science from Central Missouri State
University. 

In "former" lives, Anton has worked as a firefighter at the
Pattonville-Bridgeton Terrace Fire District in St. Louis (1978-80) and as an air disaster
litigation attorney in Boise (1988-91).

International Law

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Antarctic Whaling: Australia's Attempt to Protect Whales in the Southern Ocean, Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review (2009)

This Article examines Australia's attempt to protect whales in the Antarctic Southern Ocean, in an...

 

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False Sanctuary: the Australian Antarctic Whale Sanctuary and Long-Term Stability in Antarctica, Cornell Law School Berger International Speaker Papers (2008)

The recent assertion of maritime adjudicative jurisdiction by Australian courts over a Japanese whaling company...

 

Jurisdiction

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Antarctic Whaling: Australia's Attempt to Protect Whales in the Southern Ocean, Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review (2009)

This Article examines Australia's attempt to protect whales in the Antarctic Southern Ocean, in an...

 

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False Sanctuary: the Australian Antarctic Whale Sanctuary and Long-Term Stability in Antarctica, Cornell Law School Berger International Speaker Papers (2008)

The recent assertion of maritime adjudicative jurisdiction by Australian courts over a Japanese whaling company...

 

Natural Resources Law

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Antarctic Whaling: Australia's Attempt to Protect Whales in the Southern Ocean, Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review (2009)

This Article examines Australia's attempt to protect whales in the Antarctic Southern Ocean, in an...

 

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False Sanctuary: the Australian Antarctic Whale Sanctuary and Long-Term Stability in Antarctica, Cornell Law School Berger International Speaker Papers (2008)

The recent assertion of maritime adjudicative jurisdiction by Australian courts over a Japanese whaling company...