Dr. Laura Westra has lectured on many topics on which she has done research and in which she has special interests. Topics are grouped in three categories: (1) International Law and Human Rights, (2) Practical Ethics, Environmental Law and Case Studies, and (3) Ethical Theory.

(1) International Law and Human Rights

1. Ecoviolence: Crimes Against Citizens in National States

2. Institutional Violence: Western Democracies and International Human Rights in Conflict?

3. Human Rights, Justice and Natural Law

4. Ecoviolence, Public Health and Human Rights

5. Responsibility and Accountability for Ecoviolence: Causation and Complicity in the Law (The Principles of Nuremberg)

6. The Case for Cnminalizing Ecoviolence

7. Jus Cogens Norms as Applied to Ecocrime

8. State Responsibility for Environmental Crimes

(2) Practical Ethics, Environmental Law and Case Studies

1. Ecoviolence: Crimes Against Citizens in National States

2. The Ethics of Biological Integrity

3. Environmental Ethics, Health and Global Justice

4. Environmental Racism: The Case of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni

5. Megafarms, Deregulation and Ecoviolence in Walkerton, Ontario

6. The Ethics of Integrity and the Business of Consumption

7. Corporate Responsibility and Environmental Justice.

8. Conflicts Between Animal Rights and Human Rights: The Perspective from the Ethics of Integrity

9. BFI and Titusville, Al.: Environmental Justice in the Public Interest

(3)Ethical Theory

1. Natural Law and Virtue Ethics

2. Procedural and Substantive Justice: Possible Conflicts

3. The "Good" in Plato and Aristotle

4. The Laws of Nature and the Origins of Natural Law

5. Erga Omnes Obligations to the Future Generations

6. Structural Violence and Basic Rights

7. Human Rights, Justice and Natural Law