Laura practises primarily in public and commercial law. She has a special interest in matters concerning the environment, planning, and climate change. This includes climate attribution, climate adaptation and preparedness, mitigation (emissions reduction), and biodiversity conservation. She has postgraduate qualifications in science and enjoys working with expert scientists.

Before joining the bar, Laura was a full-time academic. She now works part-time as a lecturer at Sydney Law School where she serves as Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law. She publishes in leading academic journals on issues concerning climate change litigation and the development of environmental law. She also supervises Honours and PhD students researching in this field.

Laura has previously practised as a solicitor in planning and environmental law.

Laura holds a Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from the University of Melbourne (Planning and Environmental Law Prize); a Master of Environment (First Class Hons, Dean’s Prize); and a PhD (ARC Award; Endeavour Australia Award). Laura’s PhD thesis examined comparative federal environmental law and environmental and climate risk. She attended Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Law as a visiting scholar and Oxford University’s Law Faculty as a visiting academic, before continuing on as a post-doctoral fellow in climate solutions at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute. Laura is a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law.

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