Dr Cait Storr

Overview

Dr Cait Storr is a Senior Lecturer at Melbourne Law School. She researches the law, history and politics of property, territory and jurisdiction, with a focus on struggles for control over natural resources. She has published on the history of international administration, the concept of territory in international law, imperialism in the Pacific, decolonisation, environmental law, and on property and concepts of the commons. Her doctoral thesis was awarded the Melbourne Law School Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis and the University of Melbourne Chancellor's Prize (2018), and is published as a monograph, International Status in the Shadow of Empire: Nauru and the Histories of International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Cait's research is informed by her professional experience working in government and private legal practice. She is a qualified legal practitioner, with experience at a major law firm in resource projects, environment and planning, and corporate governance, and has worked as a legal consultant for the United Nations Development Program. Prior to studying law, Cait worked with Ombudsman Victoria and Aboriginal Affairs Victoria. Cait has held positions as Lecturer in Land Law at Glasgow Law School, as Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney, and as junior faculty with the Institute of Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School. Her postdoctoral project, 'Regulating 'New' Mining in the International Seabed and Space', examined the history and politics of the international law governing mineral resource extraction in areas beyond national jurisdiction, including global commons. Cait co-ordinates Property Law and teaches Environmental Law and Legal Research in the Juris Doctor programme.

Memberships and affiliations

• Admitted as barrister and solicitor in the Supreme Court of Victoria
• Admitted as barrister and solicitor in the High Court of Australia
• Member, Melbourne Centre for Law and the Environment (MCLE)
• Junior Faculty Member, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School
• Member, Australia and New Zealand Society of International Law (ANZSIL)
• Member, National Environmental Law Association (NELA)
• Member, Law Institute of Victoria (LIV)