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Email

erin.odonnell@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Associate Professor, Law
Melbourne Law School - Admin
Education
Doctorate
The University of Melbourne
Doctorate
University of Melbourne
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
Deakin University
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
Adelaide University
ORCID

0000-0002-2615-8012

A/Prof Erin O'Donnell

Associate Professor, Law
Melbourne Law School

76 Scholarly works
9 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    River grabbing from the source: groundwater extraction and the self-perpetuating colonial practices of dispossession in Australia's Northern Territory
    DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2025.103435
  • 2025

    Research contracts (non-grants)

    Gunditjmara Voices: A Strategic Document for Waterways
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Environmental and Cultural Flows in Aotearoa and Australia
    DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199389414.013.833
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Relational representation: Speaking with and not about Nature
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pwat.0000236
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Law and the Environment: An Act of Legal Kintsugi?
    DOI: 10.3366/legal.2024.0070
  • 2023

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Ending Aqua Nullius: Sustainable and Legitimate Water Law in Settler States
  • 2019

    Research Contracts

    Accessing Water to Meet Aboriginal Economic Development Needs
Erin O'Donnell

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2024

    Journal article

    Water courses and discourses: A media content analysis of environmental water reporting in Australia
    DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103703
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Rights and Relationality: A Review of the Role of Law in the Human/Water Relationship
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Water sovereignty for Indigenous Peoples: Pathways to pluralist, legitimate and sustainable water laws in settler colonial states
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pwat.0000144
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Ontological Collisions in the Northern Territory's Aboriginal Water Rights Policy
    DOI: 10.1002/ocea.5388
  • 2023

    Book Chapter

    Repairing our relationship with rivers: Water law and legal personhood
    DOI: 10.4337/9781802204476.00011
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Cultural water and Indigenous water science
    DOI: 10.1126/SCIENCE.ADI0658

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2023

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Ending Aqua Nullius: Sustainable and Legitimate Water Law in Settler States
  • 2023

    Research Contracts

    Independent Peer Review of Baseline Report

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