LLB (University of Melbourne)
Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (ANU)
Admitted as Legal Practitioner (ACT) 1998
Admitted as a Solicitor (Qld) 2001
Associate Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Griffith University


Research Interests

Aboriginal women and Family law


Biography

Keryn has been jointly employed by the Law School and the Gumurrii Centre since March 2004. She is one of two Indigenous Student Academic Support people in the Law School (the other being Phil Falk). Keryn's role in providing Indigenous Academic Support includes assisting in the Indigenous Pre-Law Orientation program, advising Indigenous students in relation to academic issues and providing support and general academic assistance.

Keryn teaches in the Advanced Family Law Clinic and Contracts and Civil Obligations. Prior to joining the Law School, Keryn spent several years working as a solicitor at the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women's Legal and Advocacy Service (ATSIWLAS) in Brisbane, working mainly in the areas of family law, child protection and domestic violence. She was seconded to the Premiers Department for three months in 2001 to work as a researcher for Justice Tony Fitzgerald's Cape York Justice Study and also worked for the Qld Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy on an Indigenous Governance project for several months in 2003.

Keryn was employed as a solicitor by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission in Canberra from 1998 to 2000 and was Associate to Justice Derrington in the Supreme Court of Qld in 1997. Keryn is a member of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander CMC Consultative Committee and a volunteer at the Women's Legal Service and ATSIWLAS. Keryn is an Aboriginal woman from the Nunukal people of North Stradbroke Island.


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