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.

Prior to joining Macquarie Law School in 2021, where she serves as Director of Research Training, Taylor held positions at the University of Sydney, Bond University, and the University of Queensland. She has received the 2023 Lawyers Weekly Women in Law Academic/Researcher of the Year Award and Excellence Award (first academic recipient), 2022 Faculty of Arts Early Career Researcher Prize, 2023 Vice-Chancellor's Learning and Teaching Early Career Award, 2023 Clean Energy Council Chloe Munro Scholarship for Transformational Leadership, and 2024 Australian Financial Review Higher Education Awards Emerging Leadership Finalist. Notable publications include "Creating just agrivoltaic transitions for large-scale solar" (Solar Energy, 2026), "Enabling Agri Energy Justice" (Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2026), and "Offshore renewable hydrogen potential in Australia" (2025). As Co-Editor in Chief of the Oil, Gas & Energy Law Journal, Management Committee member of RE-Alliance, and contributor to LexisNexis Energy and Resources Law in Australia, she advises governments, industry, and NGOs via submissions to ACOLA, NSW Government, World Bank, and NOPSEMA. Taylor contributes to media including ABC's 7:30 Report and Landline, and teaches commercial, energy, property, and corporate law with embedded climate perspectives.