Dr. Madeline Taylor
Profile
Dr Taylor specialises in Energy and Natural Resources Law and specifically on the intersection between energy regulation, energy policy, property law and landholder rights. In particular, her research advances a novel examination of transitioning energy regulation from a comparative and socio-legal perspective, including the strategic governance of energy and the fragmentation of ownership rights between the state, corporations, landholders and First Nations Peoples - as regulated by numerous and overlapping regulatory regimes including: land law; commercial law; corporations law; native title; offshore and onshore petroleum legislation; resource development approvals in sensitive land zoning areas; and private landholder rights within resource and compensation agreements.
Her recent co-authored monograph comparatively analyses seven legal jurisdictions (China, Poland, UK, USA, Australia, Canada, France) and their respective regulation of the food security - energy security nexus in the context of coal seam gas and shale gas. The monograph research conducts a novel socio-legal examination of legal methodologies as categorised by the authors including: adaptive management; the precautionary principle; and statism within the chosen jurisdictions with the highest proven unconventional gas reserves. Dr Taylor holds multi-disciplinary teaching experience in a variety of specialty and core law subjects including: land law; corporate law; personal property law; energy law and commercial law.