Rate My Professor Madeline Taylor

Associate Professor Madeline Taylor is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Early Career Industry Fellow and Co-Lead of the Energy, Communities, and Market Regulation Stream of the Transforming Energy Markets Research Centre at Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University. She is also an Honorary Associate at the Sydney Environment Institute and Member of the Sydney Institute of Agriculture. Specializing in socio-legal aspects of energy and natural resources law, property law, and commercial law, her research explores transitioning energy regulation and policy through comparative and socio-legal perspectives. This work addresses energy governance and the distribution of rights and benefits between states, energy developers, landholders, and communities. Key projects include her ARC EC Industry Fellowship (2025-2028) on the "The Foundational Australian Agrivoltaics Regulation Model (FAARM) Project" with NSW Department of Primary Industries and Spark Renewables; Chief Investigator role in the ARC Discovery Project "Just Transmission" (2025-2028) led by A/Prof Jonathan Pickering; and the $5,970,165 Department of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry Future Drought Fund project "Novel Energy and Evaporative Storage Technologies for Irrigators (NEESTI)" (2025-2030), assessing floating solar photovoltaics for irrigated agriculture sectors.