Alexander Gillespie - Te Piringa: University of Waikato

Professor Alexander Gillespie

LLB LLM(Hons) Auckland PhD Nottingham

Professor Alexander Gillespie obtained his LLB and LLM degrees with Honours from The University of Auckland. He did his PhD at Nottingham and post-doctoral studies at Columbia University in New York City. His areas of scholarship pertain to international and comparative environmental law; the laws of war; civil liberties; and a number of pressing issues of social concern.

Alexander has published seventeen books. His most recent work is Volume IV of his Causes of War (1650-1800) series which was published in 2021 by Bloomsbury/Hart in Oxford, UK. He has also written over forty academic articles.

Alexander has been awarded a Rotary International Scholarship, a Fulbright Fellowship, a residency at the Rockerfeller Bellagio Centre in Italy, and the New Zealand Law Foundation International Research Fellowship. He was the recipient of a Francqui Foundation award with which he held a professorship at Ghent University, Belgium, for six months during 2018/2019. In 2021 he was the joint winner of the Critic and Conscience of Society Award.

Alexander has also been the lawyer/expert on a number of international delegations and advised the New Zealand government on multiple matters of international concern. Professor Gillespie was the first New Zealander to be named Rapporteur for the World Heritage Convention, involving international environmental diplomacy under the auspice of UNESCO. Alexander has also been engaged in policy formation for the United Nations, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and governmental, commercial and non-governmental organisations in New Zealand, Australia, United States, United Kingdom, Ireland and Switzerland. He has also made a number of appearances before the Waitangi Tribunal and Select Committees of the New Zealand Parliament.

Public Speaking

Alexander is available for public talks. Although there is a speaker’s fee, 100 per-cent of this fee is donated to charity. The charities that Alexander supports are Women’s Refuge; the Salvation Army; any local Hospice; and Youthline. It is up to the group that Alexander addresses, to decide which of the four charities they shall donate the speaker’s fee.

Books Available

Below are some of Professor Alexander Gillespie's books that have been published. Click on the image or the book title to get the book description and some reviews. These books can be purchased from Amazon.

The Long Road to Sustainability	History of the Laws of War: Vol 01	History of the Laws of War: Vol 02	History of the Laws of War: Vol 03
The Causes of War: Vol 01	The Causes of War: Vol 02	The Causes of War: Vol 03	The Causes of War: Vol 04
Protected Areas and International Environmental Law	International, Environmental Law, Policy, & Ethics	Conservation, Biodiversity and International Law	Whaling Diplomacy
Waste Policy	The Future of Cetaceans in a Changing World.	Climate Change in the South Pacific:	Burning Issues
The Illusion of Progress	People, Power and Law	Climate Change, Ozone Depletion and Air Pollution

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