The Indigenous Law Centre was established in 1981 to develop and coordinate research, teaching and information services in the multi-disciplinary area of Indigenous peoples and the law. Our objectives are to:

• To conduct legal research into Indigenous peoples and the law, emphasising the core ILC areas of research and publish and disseminate ILC research throughout Australia and internationally;
  
• To participate in national and international law and policy discussion and debate about Indigenous peoples and the law;
  
• To develop curricula and teaching materials on domestic and international Indigenous legal issues and encourage and foster student research in domestic and international Indigenous legal issues.

Megan Davis is the Director of the Indigenous Law Centre and Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, UNSW. The ILC is coordinated by a Management Committee. The ILC publishes the Australian Indigenous Law Review and the Indigenous Law Bulletin.

Core areas of research

• Indigenous peoples and public law:
  focusing on legal issues related to the recognition of Indigenous rights and constitutional reform; extra parliamentary representation of Indigenous peoples; critical engagement with the idea of a bills of rights; legislative developments affecting Indigenous rights; native title and land rights; stolen wages; “democracy” and Indigenous peoples; intellectual property reform; the nexus between public law reform and health;human rights impact of climate change on Indigenous communities.
  
  
• Indigenous peoples and international law:
  focusing on Indigenous legal issues in international law; United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; Indigenous peoples advocacy at the UN; UN human rights treaties, treaty bodies and indigenous specific jurisprudence; Convention on the Rights of the Child and Indigenous children; Indigenous peoples, trade and WTO; Indigenous peoples and WIPO.
  
  
• Indigenous women and Australian democracy:
  A study of how Indigenous women fare in contemporary democracies, in particular Aboriginal women in Australian democracy; Indigenous women’s issues and Australian public institutions; Aboriginal women, human rights and aboriginal law; Indigenous women and the right to self-determination; Indigenous women and extra-parliamentary representative structures.