Directors and Staff

Director

Associate Directors

Administrative Staff

 

 

 

Director

Professor Lee Godden

Professor Godden researches and teaches within the Melbourne Law School. She was appointed Director of the Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law in 2008.  Preceeding that she held a joint appointment as Director, Office for Environmental Programs. Professor Godden’s research interests include environmental law, natural resources management, property law and indigenous peoples’ land rights. The impact of her work extends beyond Australia with comparative research on environmental law and sustainability, property law and resource trading regimes, water law resources and Indigenous land rights issues, in countries as diverse as Canada, New Zealand, UK, South Africa, and the Pacific.

 

 

Associate Directors 

 Professor Michael Crommelin

Michael Crommelin is Zelman Cowen Professor of Law, a position he has held since 1985. He was Dean of the Faculty of Law from 1989 to 2002, and from 2003 to 2007. He has held visiting academic appointments in Canada, the USA, the UK, France and Norway. He was a founding member of AMPLA Limited (the Australian energy and resources law association) and served as its president in 1985-6. He was chair of the Academic Advisory Group of the International Bar Association's Section on Energy and Resources Law from 1987 to 1990. He has been a member of the American Law Institute since 1998. His current teaching and research interests include energy and resources law, constitutional law and comparative law.

 

Associate Professor Jacqueline Peel

Jacqueline Peel is an Associate Professor of Law at the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Australia. She has dual degrees in science and law. Her research interests focus on climate change law, environmental law and international environmental law, including law/science interactions and risk assessment in the environmental field. She is the author of numerous publications on these topics, including The Precautionary Principle in Practice: Environmental Decision-making and Scientific Uncertainty (Federation Press, 2005).

 

Associate Professor Maureen Tehan

Associate Professor Maureen Tehan is also the Associate Dean (Undergraduate). Maureen’s major focus of research and academic interest is Indigenous legal issues with particular emphasis on native title, heritage protection and land access, use and management. She has a major interest in comparative Canadian law in these areas.

 

 

Administrative Staff

Ms Anne Kallies