Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

Theses / Dissertations

• Macpherson EJ. (2016) Commercial Indigenous Water Rights in Australian Law: Lessons from Chile. PhD Thesis, Melbourne, Australia. University of Melbourne.

Journal Articles

• Macpherson EJ. and Clavijo Ospina F. (2018) Rivers as persons in Aotearoa New Zealand and Colombia. Journal of Water Law 25: 283-293.

• Macpherson EJ. and O'Donnell E. (2018) Voice, power and legitimacy: the role of the legal person in river management in New Zealand, Chile and Australia. Australasian Journal of Water Resources : 1-10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13241583.2018.1552545.

• Macpherson EJ. (2017) Beyond Recognition: Lessons from Chile for allocating indigenous water rights in Australia. University of New South Wales Law Journal 40(3): 1130-1169.

• Macpherson EJ. and O'Donnell E. (2017) ¿Necesitan derechos los ríos? Comparando estructuras legales para la regulación de los ríos en Nueva Zelanda, Australia y Chile. Revista de Derecho Administrativo Economico 25: 95-120.

• O'Neill L., Godden L., Macpherson EJ. and O'Donnell E. (2016) Australia, Wet or Dry, North or South: Addressing environmental impacts and the exclusion of Aboriginal peoples in northern water development. Environmental and Planning Law Journal 33(4): 402-417.

• Macpherson EJ. and O'Donnell E. (2015) Desafíos para la gestión ambiental en Chile: perspectiva australiana [Challenges for Environmental Water Management in Chile: An Australian Perspective]. Revista de Derecho Administrativo Economico 2015(21): 171-203.

• Macpherson EJ. and O'Donnell E. (2013) Challenges and Opportunities for Environmental Water Management in Chile: An Australian Perspective. Journal of Water Law 23(1): 24-36.

Chapters

• Macpherson E. (2019) Iwi Companies. In Watson S; Taylor L (Ed.), Corporate Law in New Zealand: 111-125. Wellington: Thomson Reuters.

• Macpherson EJ., O'Neill L., Godden L. and O'Donnell E. (2018) Lessons from Australian water reforms: Indigenous and environmental values in market-based water regulation. In Holley C; Sinclair D (Ed.), Reforming Water Law and Governance: From Stagnation to Innovation in Australia: 213-234. Singapore: Springer. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8977-0_10.

• Macpherson EJ. (2013) Las complejidades del reconocimiento de derechos indígenas de agua en Chile [The Complexities of Indigenous Water Rights Recognition in Chile]. In Arroyo A; Boelens R (Ed.), Aguas Robadas: Despojo Hídrico y Movilización Social: 277-296.Editorial CBC and IE.

Conference Contributions - Other

• Macpherson EJ. (2018) Fluid jurisprudence – Emerging Indigenous Rights to Water in Australasia and North America. Guadalajara: Australia and New Zealand Studies Association of North America (ANZSANA) Conference, 7-9 Feb 2018.

• Macpherson EJ. (2018) Novel responses to indigenous water claims: Legal Rights for Rivers in Aotearoa New Zealand and Colombia. University of Canterbury: College of Business and Law Research Seminar, 21-21 Jun 2018.

• Macpherson EJ. (2018) Te Awa Tupua: El Rio Whanganui como Persona Juridica’ [Te Awa Tupua: The Whanganui River as a Legal Person. Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso Law Faculty, Chile: Water Resources and Environment Colloquium, 25-25 May 2018.

• Macpherson EJ. (2017) Culture and nature in the legal rights of rivers: Cases from Aotearoa New Zealand and Colombia. University of Otago: Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, 6-9 Dec 2017.

• Macpherson EJ. (2017) Legal Rights for the Río Atrato. University of Melbourne: New developments in the legal status of rivers, 11-11 Aug 2017.

• Macpherson EJ. (2017) Te Awa Tupua: El Rio Whanganui. Observatorio Ciudadano Con el apoyo de Colegio de Antropólogos Fundación Heinrich Böll Stiftung Cono: Derechos de Agua y Criminalizacion de la Protesta Social: Contexto Actual, Estrategias y Desafios, 6-6 Sep 2017.

• Macpherson EJ. (2017) Unbundling the bundle of rights: The historical treatment of indigenous water rights in Australia and Chile. University of Canterbury: Australia New Zealand Legal History Society Conference, 14-16 Dec 2017.

• Macpherson EJ. and O'Donnell E. (2017) Do rivers need rights? Comparing legal structures for river regulation in New Zealand, Australia and Chile. Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile: XIX Jornadas de Derecho y Gestion de Aguas, 8-8 Sep 2017.

• Macpherson EJ. (2015) Indigenous Water Rights in Australian and Chilean Laws. Sydney Law School, Sydney, Australia: Indigenous Legal Research Workshop, 6-6 Feb 2015.

• Macpherson EJ. (2014) The Historical Exclusion of Indigenous Peoples from Water Law Frameworks in Australia and Chile. University of Adelaide, Australia: Conference on Law and Indigenous Peoples in Colonial Australia and New Zealand, 1 Nov 2014.

• Macpherson EJ. (2013) Demandas Māori para tierras y recursos en Aotearoa: Nuevos enfoques para resolver las demandas Indígenas’ [Māori claims for land and resources in Aotearoa: New approaches to resolving indigenous claims]. Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Chile: Seminario Propiedad Indigena, 1 Oct 2013.

• Macpherson EJ. (2013) La formalizacion de propiedad ancestral sobre agua en el norte de Chile [The formalisation of ancestral water property rights in northern Chile]. Quito, Chile: 5th Waterlat Conference, 14-18 Oct 2013.

Other

• Macpherson EJ., O'Donnell E. and Clavijo Ospina F. (2018) Meet the River People: Who Speaks for the Rivers? The Christchurch Press [Newspaper].

• Baird NJ., Macpherson E., Barnett S., Brierley OF., Kennedy T., Thompson C. and Siataga T. (2017) Submission on "A Constitution for Aotearoa New Zealand". : 1-18.

• Macpherson EJ., Holley, Cameron., Godden, Lee., O'Donnell, Erin., Owens, Katherine., Carmody, Erin. and O'Neil, Lily. (2017) SUBMISSION TO THE PRODUCTIVITY COMMISSION INQUIRY INTO THE REFORM OF AUSTRALIA'S WATER RESOURCES SECTOR. : 1-9.

• Macpherson EJ., O'Donnell E., Godden L. and O'Neill L. (2016) Water in northern Australia: a history of Aboriginal exclusion. The Conversation: 1 (800 words).

• Macpherson EJ. (2012) The Limitations of Indigenous Water Rights in the Proposed Murray Darling Basin Plan. Right Now: Human Rights in Australia: 1 (2,500 words).

Oral Presentations

• Macpherson EJ. (2014) The Indigenous Water Market: Comparative approaches to commercial indigenous water rights. Centro de Derecho Ambiental, Universidad de Chile Law School: 01 Jan 2014.

Student Supervision

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Current
• PhD - Agelebe D: Precautionary Principle: Application in Non-Renewable Energy Production and its Effects on Climate Change
• Masters - Stephens D: Are the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi being correctly applied to Ensure Maori Interests are Appropriately Represented in New Zealand’s Free Trade Agreements?

Review and Refereeing

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• New Zealand Yearbook of International Law ( 2017 - 2020)

Future Research

• Legal rights for nature
• Water markets
• Indigenous and enviromental water rights