About me

I'm an Associate Professor at Auckland Law School. My research activities focus on three key areas of interest: climate change law, international environmental law and New Zealand environmental law. I have lectured in International Law, Public Law, Judicial Review, Constitutional Law, International Environmental Law, Resource Management Law and Climate Change Law. I'm currently on the Public Law team at Auckland Law School, also leading and teaching electives Climate Change Law, Resource Management Law and contributing to other courses in the Law School and University.

In 2019, my research on a 5-year New Zealand Law Foundation-supported project critiquing New Zealand and international law responses to fossil fuel subsidies culminated in the publication of a monograph Fossil Fuel Subsidies: an International Law Response published by Edward Elgar. I am the author of Laws of New Zealand: Climate Change (LexisNexis NZ, Wellington, 2017); “International Environmental Law” in Alberto Costi (ed) Public International Law: A New Zealand Perspective (LexisNexis NZ, Wellington, 2020); "The Influence of International Environmental Law on Domestic Law in Aotearoa New Zealand" in Salmon and Grinlinton (eds) Environmental Law in New Zealand (3rd ed, Thomson Reuters, 2026) and “Environmental Assessment” in Derek Nolan (ed) Environmental and Resource Management Law (7th ed, LexisNexis NZ, 2020).

I'm currently in the final stage of doctoral research at Melbourne University Law School examining international, regional and domestic responses to climate change-related displacement and migration in Oceania through the lenses of international law fragmentation and regimes theory.