Caitlin Murphy

Caitlin Murphy is a Lecturer in Law. Her research critically analyses the energy transition, resource extraction, and the history and political economy of international law and the transnationalisation of private law. She is particularly concerned with the constitution of state-company relations and associated legal techniques. She has written about international law and development, the history of the supply chain form, the politics of critical minerals and in particular lithium extraction.  

She completed her PhD at Melbourne Law School, and is an Honourary Research Fellow with the Laureate Program on Global Corporations and International Law. Her publications include the Oxford Handbook of International Law and Development, edited with Ruth Buchanan, Luis Eslava and Sundhya Pahuja. She is committed to pedagogy and teaches across private law and public international law.