• Normative political, legal and economic theory/philosophy
• Normative issues arising from structural and legal change
• Conceptions of persons and non-human agents in political philosophy
• Republican political thought
• Climate change ethics, politics and governance

Journal Articles

• "Anti-Fossil Fuel Norms", Climatic Change (2018).
• “Legitimate Expectations, Legal Transitions, and Wide Reflective Equilibrium” (2017) Moral Philosophy and Politics.
• “The 1.5⁰C Target and Coal Sector Transition: At the Limits of Societal Feasibility” (2018) 18(3) Climate Policy 335–351 (with T. Spencer et al.).
• “China’s Post-Coal Growth” (2016) 9 Nature Geoscience 564–566 (with Y. Qi, N. Stern, T. Wu and J. Lu).
• “China’s changing economy: implications for its carbon dioxide emissions” (2017) 17 Climate Policy 423–442 (with N. Stern). Published online 16 March 2016.
• “Fragmentation in Two Dimensions: The ICJ’s Flawed Approach to Non-State Actors and International Legal Personality” (2008) 9 Melbourne Journal of International Law 47–77.

Book Chapters

• “The normative foundations of climate legislation”, in A. Averchenkova, S. Fankhauser & M. Nachmany (Eds.), Trends in Climate Change Legislation. London: Edward Elgar, ch 5 (2017). (pre-publication version)
• “Managing economic change and mitigating climate change: China’s strategies, policies and trends” (with N. Stern). In L. Song, R. Garnaut, C. Fang and L. Johnston (Eds). China's new sources of economic growth: reform, resources and climate change. 2016. 419–48 (Ch 18). Canberra: ANU Press (also published as an e-Book).
• “Carbon Compensation in the Resources and Energy Sectors” (2011) AMPLA Yearbook, 468–489 (Yearbook of the Resources and Energy Law Association of Australia).
• “Innovation, risk and government: perspectives and principles from the social sciences”. In Government Office for Science, Innovation: Managing risk, not avoiding it – The Government Chief Scientific Adviser’s annual report 2014. 2014. Ch 1. (with R. Boyd, R. Finighan and N. Stern).

 Working Papers

• “Nationally Self-Interested Climate Change Mitigation: A Unified Conceptual Framework”. 2015. Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP) Working Paper No. 224; Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (GRI) Working Paper No. 199.
• “Prospects for a “just transition” away from coal-fired power generation in Australia: Learning from the closure of the Hazelwood Power Station”. 2017. CCEP Working Paper 1708. Centre for Climate Economics & Policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University (with J. Wiseman and S. Campbell).

 Policy Papers (selection)

• “Climate policy in China, the European Union and the United States: main drivers and prospects for the future”. CCCEP/GRI Policy Paper. November 2016 (with A. Averchenkova et al.).
• “The road to Paris and beyond”. CCCEP/GRI Policy Paper. August 2015 (with R. Boyd and N. Stern).
• “China’s ‘new normal’: structural change, better growth, and peak emissions”. CCCEP/GRI Policy Brief. June 2015 (with N. Stern).
• “‘This time is different’: The prospects for an effective climate agreement in Paris 2015”. CCCEP/GRI Policy Paper. November 2014.
• “An Innovative and Sustainable Growth Path for China: A Critical Decade”. CCCEP/GRI Policy Paper. May 2014 (with N. Stern).
• “Walking alone? How the UK’s carbon targets compare with its competitors’”. CCCEP/GRI Policy Paper. March 2014 (with S. Bassi, S. Fankhauser and M. Nachmany).

• GV262 Contemporary political theory (LSE, 2016–17 and 2017–18)
• Global Energy & Climate Policy (SOAS, 2013–14)