Graduate Researchers
Current Graduate Researchers
Nicholas Ampt
PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School. Topic: Zoorisprudence: How Should the Law treat Animals?
Supervisors: Professor Christine Parker and Professor K. Jones
Ma. Niña Blesilda Araneta-Alana
PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School. Topic: Climate Finance and the Philippines: A Legal and Critical analysis of rules, Institutions and Structures
Supervisors: Professor Margaret Young and Professor Sundhya Pahuja
Sarah Barker
PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School. Topic: Directors' Liability for Corporate Responses to Climate Change: A Comparative Study of Australian, US and UK Law.
Supervisors: Professor Jacqueline Peel and Ms Judith Marychurch.
Ashleigh Best
PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School. Topic: Animals, Disasters and Legal Status: Contributing to and Correcting Vulnerability
Supervisors: Professor Christine Parker and Professor Lee Godden
Lev Bromberg
PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School. Topic: Australian Farm Animal Welfare Regulation: Preventing Unnecessary Suffering, Providing Animals with a Life Worth Living, or Neither?
Supervisors: Professor Christine Parker and Professor Tess Hardy
Xiaoxuan Chen
PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School. Topic: Coastal Management, Community Resilience, and the Law: A Comparative Analysis of Shandong Province in China and the State of Victoria in Australia
Supervisors: Professor Margaret Young and Professor Sarah Biddulph
Alexis Ian Dela Cruz
PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School. Topic: The Imperial Sea: Imaginaries of ocean rule of law and development
Supervisors: Professor Sundhya Pahuja and Professor Margaret Young
Philip Hainbach
PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School. Topic: Renewable Energies in International Trade and Investment Law
Supervisors: Professor Jurgen Kurtz and Professor Margaret Young
Ishrat Jahan
PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law Schoo. Topic: Protection for the Rivers of Bangladesh: In-depth Analysis of the Current legal and Institutional Frameworks related to rivers in Bangladesh
Supervisors: Associate Professor Rebecca Nelson and Dr Erin O'Donnell
Sophie Lamond
PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School. Topic: Campus Food Revolutions: Investigating Policy and Projects for Food System Transformation in US Universities
Supervisors: Professor Christine Parker and Professor John Howe
Elliot Legendre
PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School. Topic: Tax instruments and water rights protection: a compared policy analysis
Supervisors: Professor Miranda Stewart and Dr Erin O'Donnell
Juliette McIntyre
PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School. Topic: Procedures of the International Court: Theory, Function and Practice
Supervisors: Professor Hillary Charlesworth and Professor Margaret Young
Roanna McClelland
PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School. Topic: Rights to Water or Rights of Water? Examining the use of the Human Right to Water and Rights for Rivers at the local level
Supervisors: Professor Lee Godden and A/Professor Rebecca Nelson
Vernon Rive
PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School. Topic: Scattered laws, scattered lives: a regimes analysis of legal and policy responses to climate change-related displacement, migration and relocation in Oceania
Supervisors: Professor Margaret Young and Professor Michelle Foster
Samantha Tang
PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School. Topic: Shareholder Power and the Public Interest
Supervisors: Professor Christine Parker and Professor R Langford
Michael Uche Ukponu
PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School. Topic: Eco-Justice for Environmental Crimes During Peacetime: Examining Alternative Pathways for the Recognition of Ecocide Under International Law
Supervisors: Professor Alison Duxbury and A/Professor Rebecca Nelson
Daria Vasilevska
PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School. Topic: Pollution of the Marine Environment by Plastic: Comparative Approach in International, European and Comparative Law
Supervisors: Professor Margaret Young and Professor S. Maljean-Dubois
Ella Vines
PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School. Topic: At the Coalface: Legal Constraints on Coal Mining After the Paris Agreement
Supervisors: Professor Jacqueline Peel and Professor Margaret Young
Past Graduate Researchers
James Bond
Divergent Risk Perspectives in Environmental Management. Supervisors: Dr Brian Cook (School of Geography and Resource Management) and Professor Lee Godden.
Mohammad Islam
Crafting Legal and Institutional Frameworks for groundwater resources of Bangladesh: From Overexploitation to Sustainable Abstraction. Supervisors: Professor Lee Godden and Associate Professor Rebecca Nelson
Sebastian Rioseco
The Influence of Conferences of the Parties of the Content and the Implementation of Their Parent-Treaties. Supervisors: Professor Margaret Young and Professor Hilary Charlesworth
Alice Palmer
Reimagining international environmental law. Supervisors: Professor Lee Godden and Associate Professor Shaun McVeigh. Read more about Alice Palmer.
Penelope Gleeson
Dope, Drugs, and Devices: The Political Legitimacy of Therapeutic Goods Regulation in Australia. Supervisors: Professor Christine Parker and Associate Professor M. Taylor Sands
Kobi Leins
International Law Applicable to the Use of Nanomaterials in War. Supervisors: Professor Christine Parker and Professor Alison Duxbury
Timothy Baxter
Justiciability and the environment – Challenging current conceptions of separation of powers in light of existential environmental threats. Supervisors: Professor Lee Godden and Associate Professor Jason Varuhas.
Josi Khatarina
Decentralisation, Law, and the Failure of Palm Oil Licensing in Indonesia. Supervisors: Professor Tim Lindsey and Professor Margaret Young
Laura Schuijers
The effective regulation of environmental impact assessment: A case study on hydraulic fracturing. Supervisors: Associate Professor Margaret Young and Professor Jacqueline Peel.
The Hon. Philip Cummins
PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School. Topic: Of Judicial Office. Supervisors: Professor Michael Crommelin AO and Laureate Professor Emeritus Cheryl Saunders AO. Read more about The Hon. Philip Cummins.
Elizabeth Macpherson
PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School. Topic: The Indigenous Water Market: Commercial Indigenous Water Rights in Australia and Chile. Supervisors: Associate Professor Kirsty Gover and Adjunct Associate Professor Maureen Tehan.
Carlo Morris
PhD Candidate, Engineering. Topic: Management of the environment using a combination of policy instruments: A case study of farm dams in Victoria. Supervisors: Professor Michael Stewardson (Engineering), Professor Biran Finlayson (Geography and Resource Management) and Professor Lee Godden.
James Munro
PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School. Topic: The relationship between emissions trading schemes and international trade and investment law. Supervisors: Professor Andrew Mitchell and Associate Professor Margaret Young.
Stephanie Niall
PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School. Topic: Shifting Sands: The Complexity of Managing Natural Resources in a Dynamic Environment. Supervisors: Professor Lee Godden and Professor Jacqueline Peel.
Erin O'Donnell
PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School. Topic: Environmental independence: How can environmental law adapt to an environmental corporation with property rights and a voice of its own? Supervisors: Professor Lee Godden, Professor Sundhya Pahuja and Professor John Freebairn (Economics). Read more about Erin O'Donnell.
Lily O'Neil
PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School. Topic: Law, power, and indigenous negotiation outcomes in Australia's natural gas industry. Supervisors: Adjunct Associate Professor Maureen Tehan and Professor Miranda Stewart. =
Joshua Paine
PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School. Topic: International Adjudicatory Functions: A Comparative Study through the Lens of Environmental Cases. Supervisors: Laureate Professor Anne Orford and Associate Professor Margaret Young.
Robin Robinson
PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School. Topic: Unfinished Business: How to address deficiencies in native title jurisprudence relating to the protection of intragroup native title rights and interests. Supervisors: Adjunct Associate Professor Maureen Tehan and Associate Professor Kirsty Gover.
Elizabeth Sheargold
PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School. Topic examines how states seek to safeguard their regulatory autonomy when drafting international trade and investment agreements.
For a comprehensive list of MCLE's Graduate Researchers theses and working papers, please visit the Melbourne Law School Library's website.