Lee Godden

Lee Godden is a Professor at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, and Director of the Melbourne Centre for Law and the Environment. Her research examines environmental and natural resources law, with specialization in water governance, indigenous land rights, and climate change law. She addresses legal frameworks for environmental sustainability through interdisciplinary approaches combining law, policy, and geography.

Godden's scholarship analyzes tensions between resource development and indigenous rights, environmental justice in climate policy, and water allocation systems. She has published extensively on native title law, REDD+ implementation, and climate adaptation governance. Her work engages comparative perspectives from Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the Pacific.

Recognition includes a Vice Chancellor's Knowledge Transfer Award for community engagement. She teaches Environmental Law and Climate Law in the Melbourne Law Masters program and supervises research students in environmental resources law.