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    Sean Brennan

    Project Director, Indigenous Rights, Land and Governance Project
    Senior Lecturer

    BA LLB LLM ANU


    Contact Details

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



    Overview

    After graduating, Sean Brennan worked as an Associate to a Federal Court judge and then at Inner City Legal Centre in Darlinghurst. Between 1994 and 1998 he worked with Cape York Land Council, the National Indigenous Working Group and other Aboriginal organisations. From 1999 to 2002 he was in the Commonwealth Parliament’s research service before joining the UNSW Law School. 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 and particularly its work on Indigenous legal issues as Director of the Indigenous Rights, Land & Governance Project.


    Courses Taught

    LAWS2140 Public Law
    LAWS4212 Native Title Law, Policy and Practice
    LAWS2150 Federal Constitutional Law


    Research Interests

    Indigenous legal issues, Land rights and native title, Constitutional law


    Current Research Projects

    Public law implications of treaty between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.


    Grants

    2005 UNSW Faculty Research Grant, Contemporary native title issues.


    Journal Affiliations

    Australian Indigenous Law Review, Member Editorial Board









     
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