Dr Cait Storr

Overview

Dr Cait Storr is a Senior Lecturer at Melbourne Law School and a barrister at the Victorian Bar, where she practises in commercial and public law with focus on property, environmental law, and native title. Her research and practice share a common concern: how law allocates and governs rights in land and resources.

Since joining the Bar in 2025, Cait has been briefed to advise and appear in a broad range of matters in her areas of practice, including connection and compensation in native title, commercial property development, federal and Victorian environmental law, interpretation of planning schemes, sale of land, and constructive trusts and equitable remedies. She can be briefed through her clerk.

Cait has held academic appointments as Lecturer in Land Law at the University of Glasgow, Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney, and as junior faculty with the Harvard Law School Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP). She received the University of Melbourne Chancellor’s Prize for her PhD thesis, which is published with Cambridge University Press. Cait has practised as a solicitor at Freehills (now Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer) in the major projects and corporate governance teams, and served as a legal consultant to the United Nations Development Programme. Prior to studying law, she worked in government roles with Ombudsman Victoria and Aboriginal Affairs Victoria.

Cait teaches property law (including native title), environmental and planning law, and legal research across the Juris Doctor and Masters programs at Melbourne Law School.

Memberships and affiliations

• Victorian Bar
• Melbourne Centre for Law and the Environment
• National Environmental Law Association
• Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law
• Law Institute of Victoria