Profile

Dr Madeline Taylor is Director of Research Training and Senior Lecturer at Macquarie Law School, Deputy Director of the Centre for Energy and Natural Resources Innovation and Transformation (CENRIT), Co-Lead of the Energy, Communities, and Market Regulation Stream of the Transforming Energy Markets Research Centre, Honorary Associate at the Sydney Environment Institute and Member of the Sydney Institute of Agriculture. Madeline specialises in issues at the intersection of socio-legal aspects of energy and natural resources law, as well as property and commercial law. Her research advances the novel examination of transitioning energy regulation and energy policy from comparative and socio-legal perspectives, including the governance of energy and the division of rights and benefits between the state, energy developers, landholders, and communities. To date, Madeline has published widely on socio-legal aspects of the energy transition. Her current research focuses on establishing regulatory frameworks concerning energy development, spatial planning, and energy justice, particularly concerning large-scale solar energy regulation, agrivoltaics, offshore wind, and hydrogen. Madeline works with researchers in law, science, and with regional communities and the renewable energy industry in her role on the Management Committee of RE-Alliance on questions relating to the energy transition, property rights, and community-based governance. She is a member of the IUCN, The International Association for Impact Assessment, and a contributing author to the Lexis Nexis flagship energy law practitioner text, Energy and Resources Law in Australia.