Dr Cait Storr

Overview

Dr Cait Storr is a Senior Lecturer at Melbourne Law School and a barrister at the Victorian Bar. Her academic research addresses the intersections of property, territory and jurisdiction, with a focus on struggles for control over natural resources. She has published widely in this field, including on critical minerals and national security, on the law and history of the commons, on the history of international administration, on the concept of territory in international law, on imperialism and geopolitics in the Pacific, and on environmental law. Her doctoral thesis was awarded 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 in government and private legal practice. She has worked at a major law firm in resource projects, environment and planning, and corporate governance, and 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 academic 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 member with the Institute of Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School. Cait teaches Property Law, Environmental Law, and Legal Research in the Juris Doctor programme. As a barrister, she accepts briefs in property, equity and trusts, environmental law, planning law, native title, and resources law.

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)