Claire Burgess

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University of Canterbury

Bio: PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Canterbury Claire Burgess is a doctoral researcher examining how Indigenous authority and customary marine tenure intersect with blue-carbon initiatives across Aotearoa and northern Australia. She brings nine years’ policy-advocacy and research experience with governments, NGOs and Indigenous peoples across Australia, Aotearoa NZ and Myanmar/Burma. She has a first-class honor from the University of Melbourne in Development Studies and a LLM with a focus on international & public law. Her research interests are in Coastal Tenure, Legal Pluralism, Indigenous Authority, and Decolonising Climate Policy. In her spare time, she enjoys contemporary dance and learning to surf.