Faculty of Law

SPECIALISTS IN WATER GOVERNANCE AND PLANNING We undertake law and policy design optimisation for The UNSW Faculty of Law has a highly regarded governing water extraction, water planning, water international reputation in water law, water governance pollution, natural resource use, sanitation and water and planning. related impacts of unconventional gas.

UNSW Law is one of the world’s top ranking Law Schools OUR PARTNERS (13th in the QS World University Rankings 2016). It is at UNSW Law collaborates extensively with university the cutting edge of interdisciplinary water law and researchers both internationally and within . In governance research that leads to real change in water addition to this, extensive collaboration with government policy and water law. and industry is a hallmark of UNSW Law.

THE TOOLS OF OUR TRADE ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE Our Faculty has large, state-of-the-art resources that include: Our key academic disciplines include: water law and policy, regulation and governance, natural resource • A team of highly experienced professional staff management, property law and environmental law. comprising academics, lawyers, researchers, postgraduate students and support staff. KEYSTONE PROJECTS • A range of leading legal research, advocacy and education centres, including Andrew & Renata Kaldor • Decentralised Groundwater Management: Centre for International Refugee Law; Australian Comparative Lessons from France and Australia Human Rights Centre; Centre for International • Revitalising Collaborative Water Governance: Finance & Regulation; Centre for Law, Markets & Lessons from Water Planning in Australia Regulation; China International Business & Economic • Compliance and enforcement in non-urban water Law Initiative (CIBEL); Cyberspace Law & Policy extraction in NSW (with DPI Water) Community; Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law and • Trans-jurisdictional Water Law and Governance the . • Collaborative Natural Resource Management in Australia and New Zealand • Well established multidisciplinary networks with water research centres involving engineers, scientists and OUR EXPERTS modelers.

WHAT WE DO Associate Professor Cameron Holley is the UNSW Law Faculty UNSW Law is a research leader in Australia water law, liaison. Cameron’s current research governance and planning. interests include compliance and enforcement of non-urban water Our researchers are engaged in multiple disciplines and extraction, water monitoring policy, areas of law, including environmental science, property collaborative water governance and law, environmental law, natural resources law, market based instruments for water. He is a member of and indigenous law. the Connected Waters Initiative Research Centre. We undertake quantitative surveys, qualitative interviews and doctrinal analysis on cutting edge water governance Janice Gray has extensive research challenges including water allocation planning, water experience in water law (including metering policy, sanitation, self-regulation, unconventional sewage), natural resources law gas, community engagement, compliance and (including unconventional gas and enforcement of water extraction, bore driller regulation, fracking) and property law. She is a water trading and market based instruments. research affiliate of the Connected Waters Initiative Research Centre Our interdisciplinary research is utilised to enhance understanding, inform debate and influence change in and coauthor of Water Resources Law (Lexis Nexis). water governance practice.

Our expertise includes water law (including sewage), water regulation, water planning, water trading, water and unconventional gas, groundwater governance, adaptive management and collaborative water governance.

More information contact: A/Prof Cameron Holley ([email protected]),