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The University of Western Australia's Professor Erika Techera, Dean of Law, has been elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.

The Australian Academy of Law is the fifth learned Academy in Australia and brings together the three strands of the legal profession-the judiciary, legal practitioners and legal academics - united in promoting high standards of learning and conduct, and appropriate collegiality across the profession.

The F ellowship of the Academy of Law comprises elected Fellows who are persons of exceptional distinction in the discipline of law and are demonstrably committed to the objects of the Academy.

Professor Techera joined UWA in 2012, prior to becoming an academic she practiced as a barrister at the NSW bar and has also been the Managing Director of a litigation support company.

Erika researches in the area of international and comparative environmental law as well as supervising research students across a number of environmental and cultural heritage law areas. She is a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law and World Commission on Protected Areas. She has worked on inter-disciplinary and legal projects with a number of bodies including UNEP, UNESCO, IUCN and WWF.