Castan Centre and King & Wood Mallesons Annual Lecture
Join us as Professor Megan Davis discusses Indigenous Rights.
Speaker
Professor Megan Davis
Professor Megan Davis is Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous and Professor of Law at UNSW.
She is Acting Commissioner of the NSW Land and Environment Court and was recently appointed the Balnaves Chair in Constitutional Law. She was a member of the Referendum Council and the Experts Panel on the Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Peoples in the Constitution; was an expert member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (2011-2016); and is currently a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous peoples.
Professor Davis is also a Commissioner on the Australian Rugby League Commission and, like any good Queenslander, she supports the North Queensland Cowboys and the Queensland Maroons.
Moderators
Professor the Hon. Kevin Bell AM QC
Director, Castan Centre For Human Rights Law, Monash Law
N’arweet Dr Carolyn Briggs AM
Boon Wurrung senior elder, Chairperson & Founder, Boon Wurrung Foundation
Event Details
- Date:
- 27 October 2020 at 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
- Venue:
- Online via Zoom
- Cost:
- Free
- Register here:
- https://bit.ly/3llzjUn
Description
Join us as Professor Megan Davis discusses Indigenous Rights.
Speaker
Professor Megan Davis
Professor Megan Davis is Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous and Professor of Law at UNSW.
She is Acting Commissioner of the NSW Land and Environment Court and was recently appointed the Balnaves Chair in Constitutional Law. She was a member of the Referendum Council and the Experts Panel on the Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Peoples in the Constitution; was an expert member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (2011-2016); and is currently a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous peoples.
Professor Davis is also a Commissioner on the Australian Rugby League Commission and, like any good Queenslander, she supports the North Queensland Cowboys and the Queensland Maroons.
Moderators
Professor the Hon. Kevin Bell AM QC
Director, Castan Centre For Human Rights Law, Monash Law
N’arweet Dr Carolyn Briggs AM
Boon Wurrung senior elder, Chairperson & Founder, Boon Wurrung Foundation
Event Contact
- Name
- Janice Hugo
- janice.hugo@monash.edu
- Phone
- 03 9905 3327
- Organisation