Associate Professor Maureen Tehan is a Principal Fellow in the Law School at The University of Melbourne. She has been a Chief Investigator on a number of research projects on aspects of negotiation and implementation of agreements, treaties andnegotiated settlements with indigenous and local peoples, the property and sustainability elements of competing claims to land and resources and climate change mitigation, forests and Indigenous and tenure. Her broad teaching and research interests include property, indigenous land tenure and cultural heritage. She has extensive experience as a legal advisor and consultant to Aboriginal Land Councils and organisations.