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Dr Cait Storr is a Senior Lecturer at the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on the law, history, and politics of property, territory, and jurisdiction, particularly in contexts of natural resource control, imperialism, and decolonization. She holds qualifications as a legal practitioner in Victoria and Australia, with professional experience spanning private practice, UN consultancy, and government roles in Aboriginal affairs.
Storr's academic career includes positions at Glasgow Law School, UTS, and Harvard Law School's Institute for Global Law and Policy. Her award-winning doctoral work, later published as International Status in the Shadow of Empire: Nauru and the Histories of International Law (Cambridge, 2020), examines colonial legal frameworks and Pacific state formation. Current research explores international law governing seabed and space mining, and the extractivist imaginary in legal systems.
- Teaching: Property Law, Environmental Law, Legal Research in the Melbourne JD program
- Affiliations: Melbourne Centre for Law and the Environment (MCLE), Institute for Global Law and Policy (Harvard), Australia and New Zealand Society of International Law
Her scholarship critiques traditional legal concepts of territory and jurisdiction, drawing on decolonial perspectives to re-examine imperial legacies in international law. Recent articles address space resource governance, corporate territorial claims, and the evolution of decolonization frameworks in legal systems.
- Awards:
- Melbourne Law School Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis (2018)
- University of Melbourne Chancellor's Prize (2018)
Storr's work bridges legal history with contemporary challenges, addressing intersections between environmental governance, resource extraction, and postcolonial legal orders. Current projects include examining Australia's role in transnational mineral negotiations and the legal frameworks shaping outer space and seabed exploitation.
