Elizabeth Macpherson

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Dr Elizabeth Macpherson is Pākehā (a New Zealander of European-settler descent) and is a Professor and Rutherford Discovery Fellow at Te Kaupeka Ture (Faculty of Law) at the University of Canterbury. Her research interests are in comparative environmental and natural resources law, human rights and Indigenous rights in Australasia and Latin America. She is the author of the award-winning book Indigenous Water Rights in Law and Regulation: Lessons from Comparative Experience (2019, Cambridge University Press) and leads the Rutherford Discovery Fellowship programme Blue Carbon Futures in Aotearoa New Zealand: Law, Climate, Resilience.

Experience

  • 2024–present
    Professor, University of Canterbury
  • 2020–2023
    Associate Professor, University of Canterbury
  • 2019–2020
    Senior Lecturer, University of Canterbury
  • 2017–2018
    Lecturer, University of Canterbury
  • 2011–2016
    Research Fellow, Teaching Fellow, Universito of Melbourne

Education

  • 2016 
    University of Melbourne, PhD (Law)
  • 2003 
    Victoria University of Wellington, LLB (Hons)
  • 2002 
    Victoria , BCA

Grants and Contracts

  • 2023
    Rutherford Discovery Fellowship
    Role:
    PI
    Funding Source:
    Te Apārangi The Royal Society
  • 2020
    , Law & Policy for Ecosystem-based Marine Management
    Role:
    PI
    Funding Source:
    Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge
  • 2020
    Riverine Rights: Exploring the Currents and Consequences of Legal Innovations on the Rights of Rivers
    Role:
    PI
    Funding Source:
    Resaarch Council fo Norway

Professional Memberships

  • World Commission on Environmental Law
  • United Nations Harmony with Nature

Honours

Rutherford Discovery Fellow, 2024 NZ Selection, Frontiers Planet Prize, 2023 NZ Law Research Foundation Sir Ian Barker Published Article Award, 2021 Royal Society Te Apārangi ECR Excellence Award for Humanities, 2020 Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand award for the most outstanding contribution to law and society by an Australian or NZ scholar

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