Emille Boulot

Emille Boulot (she/her) is pursuing a PhD in the Leadership for the Ecozoic project within the Natural Resource Sciences Department at McGill University (supervisor: Nicolas Kosoy). Emille is an Australian lawyer and has completed a Master’s degree in Environmental Governance at the University of Tasmania, where she researched the restoration of cultural landscapes following mineral extraction on Indigenous lands. Her doctoral research investigates adaptive governance in the context of ecological restoration across a number of governance case studies in Australia. She is a member of the Ecological Law and Governance Association and a research fellow with the Earth System Governance Project. Contact: emille.boulot@mail.mcgill.ca. 

Projects   

Adaptive governance in the context of ecological restoration (doctoral dissertation; ongoing) investigates the regulatory challenges and opportunities for the emergence of adaptive governance in the management of ecological restoration. The project involves theoretical, empirical (field research) and doctrinal research. The project is supported by the Leadership for the Ecozoic Project.  

Restoring cultural landscapes: Mine rehabilitation and agreement making on Indigenous land (Masters of Environmental Governance Thesis; University of Tasmania, completed 2019) explored regulatory frameworks that govern mine rehabilitation on Indigenous land and assess the potential for cultural landscape restoration.  

Publications 

Boulot, E. (forthcoming) “Restoring land, restoring law: theorizing ecological law with ecological restoration” In G. Garver, P. Burdon, K. Anker, M. Maloney and C. Sbert (eds.) From Environmental to Ecological Law, New York, Routledge.  

Boulot, E. & Sterlin, J. (2019) "Earth System Governance and the Ontological Turn: Proposals for Law’s Place in Cosmopolitics" Earth Systems Governance Conference Paper 148, October, Oaxaca. 

Vargas Roncancio, I., Temper, L., Sterlin, J., Smolyar, N.L., Sellers, S., Moore, M., Melgar-Melgar, R., Larson, J., Horner, C., Erickson, J.D., Egler, M., Brown, P.G., Boulot, E., Beigi, T., Babcock, M. (2019) “From the Anthropocene to Mutual Thriving: An Agenda for Higher Education in the Ecozoic”. Sustainability, 11, 3312. 

Activity 

Multi-species Justice Reading Group – a reading group for graduate students, postdocs, faculty members and researchers across Australian universities. Meets monthly to discuss recent scholarly texts at the intersections of justice, multi-species and environmental humanities.  

Guest co-editor of the special issue, ‘Posthuman legalities: New Materialism and Law Beyond the Human’. This special edition of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment aims to be an interdisciplinary exploration of other kinds of law that might emerge from an ‘ontological otherwise’.  

Earth System Law Taskforce member - earth system law is intended to reflect the legal dimensions of large-scale transformations, which range from traditional environmental policy problems to the governance of earth system transformation. A major objective of this Task Force is to explore novel legal developments in and for the Anthropocene. More information can be found here:  

https://www.earthsystemgovernance.org/research/taskforce-on-earth-system-law/  

PhD fellow, Leadership for the Ecozoic (L4E), McGill University – involved in the E4A and L4E Law and Governance Research Initiative which acknowledges that the Anthropocene imposes a pressing need to reframe law and governance toward a mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship, with rigorous reliance on contemporary science and traditional knowledge systems. More information can be found here: https://www.l4ecozoic.org