Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
Rebecca Nelson led the Comparative Groundwater Law and Policy Program, a collaborative initiative between Water in the West at Stanford University and the US Studies Centre between 2010 and 2014. Nelson is a Non-Resident Fellow of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and a Senior Fellow of the Melbourne Law School, where she teaches water law. Her research focuses on natural resources law and policy in Australia and the US, with an emphasis on empirical research and practical solutions.