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Staff Directory
Sean Brennan

Senior Lecturer
Director, Indigenous Legal Issues Project, Gilbert +Tobin Centre of Public Law

BA LLB LLM ANU


Contact Details

Telephone: +61 2 9385 2334
Email: s.brennan@unsw.edu.au
Office: Law Building 322


Publications

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Overview

After working with various Aboriginal and other community organisations and in the Commonwealth Parliament’s research service, Sean joined the UNSW Faculty of Law in May 2002. Between 2002 and 2005 Sean was Director of the Treaty Project at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, investigating the public law implications of a treaty or treaty-like agreements between Indigenous peoples and Australian governments. Together with project partners George Williams, Larissa Behrendt and Lisa Strelein, he is the co-author of the book Treaty (Federation Press, 2005). Sean continues his association with the Centre as the Director of the Indigenous Legal Issues Project. He teaches, writes and researches mainly in the areas of native title, land rights and other Indigenous legal issues as well as constitutional law.


Courses Taught

LAWS2140
LAWS2150 Federal Constitutional Law
LAWS2211
LAWS4212
LAWS4415


Research Interests

Indigenous legal issues, land rights and native title, constitutional law


Current Research Projects

Developments in native title and land rights
Regulation of substance abuse in Aboriginal communities
The just terms guarantee for the acquisition of property


Grants

2009 UNSW Faculty Research Grant, Legal Regulation of Alcohol and other Substances in Northern Territory Aboriginal Communities

2005 UNSW Faculty Research Grant, Contemporary native title issues.


Journal Affiliations

Australian Indigenous Law Review, Member Editorial Board