Janice Gray

Dr Janice Gray is a full-time member of the Faculty of Law, UNSW Sydney, Australia where she specialises in property law, water law and the law of unconventional gas. She is particularly interested in the law relating to: property at the margins; water trading; the water-land-unconventional gas-food nexus; and recycled water and sewage. Dr Gray was part of a research team whose work on sewage recycling won a New South Wales government 2012 Green Globe Award for Innovation.

Immediately, before joining the Faculty of Law, Dr Gray was a solicitor in the corporate section of one of the large, commercial, Sydney law firms. She holds a current practising certificate as a lawyer and has served on the Property Law Committee of the NSW Law Society She has also held management positions in the public sector.

Dr Gray is an Affiliate of the UNSW Connected Waters Initiative and a member of the Allens Hub for Innovation and Technology, the latter leading to her contribution to the NSW Law Reform Commission’s 2018-2019 Digital Assets on Intestacy and Incapacity reference. She was the Editor-in-Chief of the Australasian Journal of Natural Resources Law and Policy (2011-2016); Editorial Board Member of the Australasian Journal of Natural Resources Law and Policy, (2009-2010); on the International Advisory Board of the Canadian Journal of Native Studies (approx. 1999 to present); and an editor of the Human Rights Defender (mid 2000s to 2016).

Since its original publication in 2003, she has been the lead author of all four editions of Property Law in New South Wales, Lexis Nexis, Sydney (4th ed, 2017). She is also a co-author of Water Resources Law, LexisNexis, Sydney, (1st ed 2009 with A Gardner, R Bartlett; 2nd ed, 2018 with A Gardner, R Bartlett and R Nelson). Dr Gray is the lead editor of Trans-jurisdictional Water Law and Governance, Routledge, 2016 and co-editor of another four books on ecological integrity. She has also published: articles on water and property law issues in national and international, peer-reviewed journals; book chapters in international and national books; and her work has been cited by the High Court of Australia. She has presented extensively at national and international academic conferences.