Research

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My article in the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand's Ngā Kete 2023 Annual Collection won the 2022 Sir Ian Baker Published Article Award

My co-authors and I received the first honourable mention in the Transnational Environmental Law Best Article 2023 for our piece on Experiments with the Extension of Legal Personality to Ecosystems and Beyond-Human Organisms: Challenges and Opportunities for Company Law

In 2024 I was appointed to the Advisory Board for the Transnational Environmental Law Journal

In 2024 I was appointed as Associate Editor of the Australasian Journal of Water Resources

Indigenous Water Rights in Law and Regulation responds to an unresolved
question in legal scholarship: how are (or how might be) indigenous peoples’ rights included in contemporary regulatory regimes for water

My article in the International Journal of Human Rights analyses the institutional arrangements for the Waikato and Waipā Rivers in Aotearoa New Zealand to consider how effectively they promote Indigenous rights and the exercise of Māori law and relationships with place.

My recent presentation about designing marine law and policy for the health and resilience of ocean and coastal ecosystems at the Te Au o Te Moana Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge Conference

My book chapter in this edited collection explores ecosystem rights in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia

My article published in Climate Law analyses Aotearoa New Zealand's climate adaptation laws and policies through a feminist lens

My short video about oceans law and policy for the Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge Te Au o te Moana series

My chapter in this book on the recognition of nature and its components as a subject of rights discusses the use of legal personhood for natural resources governance around the world

My article published in Frontiers in Marine Science discusses policy enablers that could encourage the uptake of carbon projects by private landowners in Aotearoa New Zealand

My speech to the United Nations Interactive Dialogue on Harmony with Nature considered the importance of teaching about climate change

My chapter in this book discusses seabed mining in Aotearoa New Zealand 

This article explores key opportunities to align marine law and policy to ecosystem dynamics and identifies critical lessons for scale-sensitive marine law and policy design, globally 

My presentation on law and policy for marine ecosystems in Aotearoa New Zealand, for the Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge