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Publications Click here for Publication listing Overview Megan Davis is Director, Indigenous Law Centre and Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law. Megan`s scholarship involves critical analysis of Indigenous public law issues in particular constitutional reform and democratic theory and governance. Megan`s research also includes Indigenous peoples rights in international law, in particular UN treaty body jurisprudence and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and she is also an Australian member of the International Law Association’s Indigenous Rights Committee. Megan`s previous positions include Director, Bill of Rights project, G + T Centre of Public Law; Senior Research Fellow, Jumbunna, UTS and Legal Counsel, Administrative, Legislation and Corporate Law Section, Legal Branch, ATSIC. Megan has held a UN Indigenous Fellowship, UNOHCHR, Geneva and has participated for a decade in UN expert seminars and working groups as an Indigenous lawyer. Megan is an admitted Legal Practitioner of the Supreme Court of the A.C.T. Megan is completing her PhD (Law) at the Regulatory Institutions Network, ANU examining Aboriginal women and democracy. Courses Taught LAWS2140 LAWS2211 LAWS4415 Research Interests Indigenous peoples and democracy, Indigenous peoples and constitutional law, Aboriginal women’s legal issues, Indigenous peoples in International law, UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Current Research Projects A study of how Aboriginal women fare in Australian liberal democracy (ARC) Indigenous peoples rights in International Law – The UN Declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples (ILA) “Unfinished business”: reconciliation, constitutional reform, extra-parliamentary democratic representation. Grants ARC: A study of how Aboriginal women fare in liberal democracies (ARC Discovery Indigenous Researchers Development scheme) UNSW Law Early Career Research grant: Aboriginal women and constitutional reform Journal Affiliations Indigenous Law Bulletin, Member Editorial Board Editor, Australian Indigenous Law Review Indigenous Law Bulletin, Member Editorial Board Service to Discipline and the Profession Oxfam Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Reference Group Member, Steering Committee, UNSW Health and Human Rights Initiative Australian Member, Indigenous Rights Committee, International Law Association Member, International Law Association (Australia Branch) Member, Australian Lawyers for Human Rights Ngalaya Aboriginal Corporation – Indigenous Lawyers in NSW Management Committee, Indigenous Law Centre, UNSW Faculty of Law Centre Associate, Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW Faculty of Law Australasian Law Teachers Association Foundation for Aboriginal Islander Research Action (FAIRA) |
