I am an internationally recognised researcher of environmental and natural resources law in transnational, interdisciplinary contexts. I have published widely on Indigenous rights, freshwater and marine law in high-quality and high-impact publications.
I am a Rutherford Discovery Fellow, leading the project Blue carbon futures in Aotearoa New Zealand: Law, climate, resilience
My award-winning book with Cambridge University Press Indigenous Water Rights in Law and Regulation is the seminal analysis of transnational law and policy frameworks on Indigenous water rights. My work on opportunities for Indigenous peoples' water rights in laws and policies globally earned me the 2021 Royal Society Te Apārangi ECR Excellence Award for Humanities.
I have led multidisciplinary environmental research teams to deliver research projects for the Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge on law and policy for ecosystem-based management and the Riverine Rights Norwegian Research Council project on legal innovations recognising the rights of rivers. I am a principal investigator on the Ministry for Primary Industries funded project that will produce a climate maladaptation evaluation tool for Aotearoa, and the Sustainable Seas project on Scale and EBM.
My research has been used by governments and Indigenous peoples tackling pressing socio-environmental challenges around the world and relied on in evidence, government inquiries, by judges and in government reports. I have research collaborations with Iwi and Hapū across Aotearoa and I use my comparative law and Spanish language skills to transfer knowledge across settler-Indigenous contexts around the world.
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
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 short video about oceans law and policy for the Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge Te Au o te Moana series
My speech to the United Nations Interactive Dialogue on Harmony with Nature considered the importance of teaching about climate change
My presentation on law and policy for marine ecosystems in Aotearoa New Zealand, for the Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge
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