Prof

Lee Godden

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Law

Prof

Lee Godden

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Law

Primary Interest

Water Law

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FEATURED Book Chapter

Law and sacrifice in Australian extra-territorial nation spaces: The residue of empire

Lee Godden's selected work

Lee Godden's selected work

Property as habitat: reintegrating place, people, and law

Research Grant

Returning water rights to Aboriginal people

NEWS ARTICLE

Capacity Assessment for Waste Legislation in the 15 PacWastePlus Participating Countries

Report

Accessing water to meet Aboriginal economic development needs

Research Contracts

Regulating wind farms out of Victoria

NEWS ARTICLE

PacWastePlus Waste Legislative Review National Options Papers for Waste Legislation in the..

Report

Projects

Displaying the 10 most recent projects by Lee Godden.

Accessing water to meet Aboriginal economic development needs

Property as habitat: reintegrating place, people, and law

This project aims to produce an original account of property law that will connect it to place and human relationships. Property is at the c..

Guidance on policy and legislation on integrated waste management in times of pandemic - Workstream B

Guidance on policy and legislation on integrated waste management in times of pandemic - Workstream A

Options for a framework for accessing and using Aboriginal Water Reserves

Risk and Fragmentation in Water: an ECR perspective

Legislative Review and Assessment of the Environmental and Waste Legislative Environment in 15 pacific Island countries for the PacWaste Plus Project

Going beyond the crisis response: building trust and maintaining legitimacy for all stakeholders in environmental water flows and water governance

National Cultural Flows Research Project Component 5: Law, Policy and Institutions

Climate Change Law and Mitigation: Forest Carbon Sequestration and Indigenous and Local Community Rights

The project examines the impact of climate change law and mitigation on Indigenous peoples and local forest communities in Australia, India ..

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Project Types

10

Research Grant

8

Research Contracts

3

Internal Research Grant

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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Lee Godden.

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Law and sacrifice in Australian extra-territorial nation spaces: The residue of empire

L Godden

Book Chapter | 2021

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Capacity Assessment for Waste Legislation in the 15 PacWastePlus Participating Countries

Jacqueline Peel, Lee Godden, Alice Palmer, Rebekkah Markey-Towler

Report | 2020

This report was prepared by the University of Melbourne (UoM) consultancy team as part of the PacWastePlus Waste Legislative Revie..

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PacWastePlus Waste Legislative Review Regional Solutions Assessment

Jacqueline Peel, Lee Godden, Alice Palmer, Rebekkah Markey-Towler

Report | 2020

This report was prepared by the University of Melbourne (UoM) consultancy team as part of the PacWastePlus Waste Legislative Revie..

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PacWastePlus Waste Legislative Review National Options Papers for Waste Legislation in the 15 PacWastePlus Participating Countries

Jacqueline Peel, Lee Godden, Alice Palmer, Rebekkah Markey-Towler

Report | 2020

This report was prepared by the University of Melbourne (UoM) consultancy team as part of the PacWastePlus Waste Legislative Revi..

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Assessment of Waste Legislation in the 15 PacWastePlus Participating Countries

Jacqueline Peel, Lee Godden, Alice Palmer, Rebekkah Markey-Towler

Report | 2020

The UoM team’s understanding of the coverage of the priority waste streams was drawn from PacWastePlus Programme, The Connection, ..

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Stocktake of Existing and Pipeline Legislation in the 15 PacWastePlus Participating Countries

Jacqueline Peel, Lee Godden, Alice Palmer, Rebekkah Markey-Towler

Report | 2020

This report contains the UoM team’s findings relating to: a. A stocktake of the existing legislative environment for waste managem..

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Legislative Opportunity Assessment and Needs Analysis for Waste Legislation in the 15 PacWastePlus Participating Countries

Jacqueline Peel, Lee Godden, Alice Palmer, Rebekkah Markey-Towler

Report | 2020

This report was prepared by the University of Melbourne (UoM) consultancy team as part of the PacWastePlus Waste Legislative Revie..

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Indigenous Water Rights and Water Law Reforms in Australia

Lee Godden, Sue Jackson, Katie O'Bryan

Journal article | 2020 | ENVIRONMENTAL AND PLANNING LAW JOURNAL

This article critically examines the diverse policy and legal frameworks in Australia that seek to address Indigenous peoples’ wat..

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Cry Me a River: Building Trust and Maintaining Legitimacy in Environmental Flows

EL O’Donnell, AC Horne, Lee Godden, B Head

Journal article | 2019 | Australian Journal of Water Resources

Water reforms in Australia over a decade ago have seen large-scale recovery of water for the environment. While the recovery progr..

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Community Participation: Exploring Legitimacy in Socio-Ecological Systems for Environmental Water Governance

Lee Godden, Ray Ison

Journal article | 2019 | Australasian Journal of Water Resources

Environmental water governance is a highly contested space in which the legitimacy of institutional and legal models for water man..

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Justice and the Law

Environmental and Resources Law

Other Law and Legal Studies

Environmental Management

Environmental Policy, Legislation and Standards

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, Society and Community

International and Comparative Law

Adaptation To Climate Change

News

Displaying the 8 most recent news articles by Lee Godden.

Returning water rights to Aboriginal people

Erin O'Donnell, Lee Godden, Katie O’Bryan, Will Mooney, Lauren Chester, Grant Rigney

“We’ve been managing the river as custodians from the beginning of time, but governments are not asking us how we did that.”Water justice is..

pursuit Article

Regulating wind farms out of Victoria

Lee Godden, Anne Kallies

Victorian planning amendments treat wind farms as a menace on the horizon. greenery/FlickrWind farms, like much new technology, have generat..

December 2, 2020

pursuit Article

3 billion animals were in the bushfires' path. Here's what the royal commission said (and should've said) about them

Ashleigh Best, Christine Parker, Lee Godden

The Black Summer bushfires were devastating for wildlife, with an estimated three billion wild animals killed, injured or displaced. This st..

November 8, 2020

conversation Article

Sharing your meter data might help cut your power bill, but it needs secure regulation

Sangeetha Chandrashekeran, Anne Kallies, Lee Godden, Svenja Keele

We are now well and truly in the era of big data. Scandals such as Cambridge Analytica show that vast amounts of our personal data are being..

September 13, 2018

conversation Article

The story behind Osama bin Laden's watery grave

Shahram Akbarzadeh

US forces "eased" bin Laden's body into the Arabian Sea. AAPOsama bin Laden has long been a focus for conspiracy theorists wit..

pursuit Article

Water in northern Australia: a history of Aboriginal exclusion

Elizabeth Macpherson, Erin O'Donnell, Lee Godden, Lily O'Neill

The Ord River was targeted for agricultural expansion in the 20th century. isthatdaves/Wikimedia Commons, CC BYIn May, the Northern Territor..

conversation Article

From little things: the role of the Aboriginal customary law report in Mabo

Lee Godden

The Recognition of Aboriginal Customary Laws report was released by the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) in June 1986, after an inten..

conversation Article

Commonwealth should keep final say on environment protection

Lee Godden, Jacqueline Peel, Lisa Caripis

As a World Heritage Area, Springbrook National Park gets additional protection from the Commonwealth. What if Queensland were in charge of i..

December 4, 2012

conversation Article

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News Articles

Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2017

FASSA - Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia

2016

FAAL - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Professor

Law

Chair, Academic Advisory Group, Section On Energy,Environment, Resources And Infrastaructure Law

International Bar Association

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

Griffith University

Bachelor of Legal Studies

Macquarie University

Master of Arts

University of Melbourne

Graduate Diploma in Education

State College of Victoria

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ORCID

0000-0001-9534-5148

International Linkages

University of Stellenbosch

South Africa

North-West University: Potchefstroom Campus

South Africa

Victoria University of Wellington

New Zealand