Dr Hunter completed her PhD at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her Doctoral thesis is titled 'Legal Regulatory Framework for the Sustainable Extraction of Australian Offshore Petroleum Resources: A Critical Functional Analysis'. Tina researches and teaches at Bond University, where she continues to develop her interests in Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Jurisprudence, Mining Law, Petroleum Law and Energy Law through her work as a full-time Assistant Professor. She is also a researcher at the University of Bergen, where she is a member of the Legal Culture Research Group and the Research Group for Natural Resources, Environment and Development Law. Dr Hunter also completed a honours degree in estuarine marine sediments at the University of Sydney, as well as Masters qualifications in research and information science. Dr Hunter consults to Australian and international government departments advising on law and policy relating to offshore petroleum activities, shale and coal seam gas extraction and mining and investment activities.
Book Chapters
Concepts and overview, Energy and resources law (2011)
Energy and Resources Law has been designed to support legal advisors in providing more timely...
Conflict of laws (with Amir Kordvani), Energy and resources law (2011)
Energy and Resources Law has been designed to support legal advisors in providing more timely...
Introduction, Energy and resources law (2011)
Energy and Resources Law has been designed to support legal advisors in providing more timely...
Offshore petroleum regulatory frameworks of Australia and Norway, Ten years of the hydrocarbon organics law (2001-2011). An international and comparative hydrocarbons law approach - 15 countries, 15 regimes (2011)
Articles
Equality for the Earth – The Role of Intergenerational Equity and Customary International Law, The National Legal Eagle (2011)
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We all want to have an earth that lasts forever. Yet often we...
Offshore petroleum facility integrity in Australia and the United Kingdom: A comparative study of two countries utilising the safety case regime (with John Paterson), Oil, Gas and Energy Law (2011)
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Offshore petroleum activities are undertaken in some of the most hostile environments on earth. The...
National water commission calls for closer look at fracking, Law papers (2011)
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Last week, the Federal Government’s National Water Commission (NWC) delivered its third biannual assessment of...
Conference Papers
Legal regimes that encourage improved oil recovery: The Norwegian experience, Global petroleum conference: Uncovering the game changers (2010)
Petroleum regulation for economic and sustainable development: A comparison of Australia and Norway, 13th Annual interdisciplinary legal studies graduate student conference: Law without borders (2008)
Offshore exploration and production, policy and the Offshore Petroleum Act: Whither now?, Annual Excellence in Upstream Energy Conference (2006)
Extract: This paper is a response to the recent changes to the Offshore Petroleum Law...
Theses
Legal regulatory framework for the sustainable extraction of Australian offshore petroleum resources: A critical functional analysis (2010)
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The sustainable development of petroleum resources in Australia forms the study of this...
Popular Press
NSW's coal seam gas ban: Where the frack to next?, The Conversation (2011)
Fracking. It’s a hotbed of controversy that spans our increasingly energy-hungry globe.