Rate My Professor Alice Bleby

Alice Bleby is a Lecturer in the Department of Business Law and Taxation at Monash Business School, Monash University. She researches and teaches environmental, sustainability, and climate law, with particular interests in rights and personhood for nature; environmental law in the Anthropocene; Earth System Law; law and planetary boundaries; climate change framework legislation and mainstreaming; climate change adaptation; the interface between science and environmental law; and international environmental law. Bleby uses theoretical, doctrinal, and empirical methods to examine emerging legal responses to environmental problems, analysing law on paper and in practice to strengthen protections for nature amid crisis. She holds a Doctoral Degree in Law from the University of New South Wales, awarded 26 February 2026, for her thesis 'Putting nature's legal rights and personhood into practice: reshaping nature's status under the law'. Her prior qualifications include a Master of International and European Environmental Law from Aix-Marseille Université, Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice from the Australian National University, Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the University of Melbourne, and Diploma of Modern Languages (French) from the University of Melbourne.

Prior to Monash, Bleby served as research assistant, independent consultant, manager, policy officer in the Victorian Government, and senior policy advisor to a Victorian MP, providing research, policy advice, and leadership on environment and climate issues. She led the Climate Change Adaptation Policy team in the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, lead-authoring Victoria’s Climate Change Adaptation Plan 2017-2020, and worked with environment NGOs. At Monash, she is Unit Coordinator for BTX5910 Corporate Sustainability Regulation and teaches BTX3100 Sustainability Regulation for Business and BTF5910 Corporate Sustainability Regulation. Key publications include 'A conceptual model for climate change mainstreaming in government' (Transnational Environmental Law, 2023, with A. Foerster); 'When climate mainstreaming is the law: a case study of the Climate Change Act 2017 (Vic)' (Sydney Law Review, 2023, with A. Foerster); 'Subnational framework climate laws' (Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonisation in Australia, 2024, with A. Foerster, A. Kallies); 'Climate Mainstreaming in Practice' report (Monash University, 2023, with A. Foerster); and chapters on adaptive theory in environmental law research methods (2023).