2020 The Castan Centre for Human Rights Law / King & Wood Mallesons Annual Lecture
Professor Megan Davis
Pro VC Indigenous & Professor of Law at UNSW
Member of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous peoples
Date: Tuesday, 27 October 2020
Time: 5.30pm - 6.30pm
Venue: Zoom webinar online
Professor Megan Davis speaks on a subject related to the human rights of Indigenous people.
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About this event
Keynote address by Professor Megan Davis, Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous and Professor of Law at UNSW, and member of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Professor Megan Davis will talk on a subject related to the human rights of Indigenous peoples
Speaker
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.