Elizabeth Macpherson

2025-09-29 03:10:58

(MENAFN- The Conversation)

Professor of Law and Rutherford Discovery Fellow, University of Canterbury

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Dr Elizabeth Macpherson is Pākehā (a New Zealander of European-settler descent) and is a Professor and Rutherford Discovery Fellow at Te Kaupeka Ture (Faculty of Law) at the University of Canterbury. Her research interests are in comparative environmental and natural resources law, human rights and Indigenous rights in Australasia and Latin America. She is the author of the award-winning book Indigenous Water Rights in Law and Regulation: Lessons from Comparative Experience (2019, Cambridge University Press) and leads the Rutherford Discovery Fellowship programme Blue Carbon Futures in Aotearoa New Zealand: Law, Climate, Resilience.

Experience

2020–present Associate professor, University of Canterbury

Honours

Rutherford Discovery Fellow, 2024 NZ Selection, Frontiers Planet Prize, 2023 NZ Law Research Foundation Sir Ian Barker Published Article Award, 2021 Royal Society Te Apārangi ECR Excellence Award for Humanities, 2020 Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand award for the most outstanding contribution to law and society by an Australian or NZ scholar

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