Core expertise
Indigenous rights
Water law
Biography
Katie is a non-Indigenous ally researching water from a human rights legal perspective. Before entering academia, she practised as a solicitor in native title, acting for native title claim groups in both Western Australia and Victoria. She holds a Master of Laws in Environmental Law from Macquarie University, and a PhD from Monash focusing on the legal recognition of Indigenous water rights. Her research and teaching interests include Indigenous legal rights, native title, water law, rights of nature laws, human rights, constitutional law, administrative law, and public law and statutory interpretation.
