Rowena Cantley-Smith

Rowena Cantley-Smith is a Lecturer at the Law Faculty of Monash University in Australia.  She currently teaches and researches in contract law, environmental law, energy law, regulation and policy, public international law and private international law.  She is also an Associate Fellow of the International Energy Programme at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations, Clingendael in The Hague (CIEP).  Ms Cantley-Smith is involved in multidisciplinary research which examines the interface between public international law and international economics in traditional energy markets.  This research is undertaken within the broad scope of public international law and sustainable development, including international energy law, international environmental law and human rights law.   

Ms Cantley-Smith has also practised as a Barrister and Solicitor in Australia: Barrister-at-law (1998-present); Associate to the Honourable Justice K.M. Hayne (High Court of Australia and Victorian Supreme Court of Appeal; 1996-1998); Solicitor (1994-1996).  Prior to her admission to practice, Ms Cantley-Smith had undertaken university studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia: Bachelor of Economics (1989); Bachelor of Laws (1993).

In 2001 she successfully completed a Master of Laws specialising in public international law at Leiden University in the Netherlands and in 2002 commenced doctoral studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.  Her legal research and private practice have encompassed a broad range of public and private law areas including constitutional law, conflicts of law, contract law, corporate and commercial law, energy law, environmental law, human rights law, indigenous peoples’ rights law and international trade law.