BA/LLB, UNSW (2003); LLM, Harvard (2006)


Biography

Rachel is currently working as a legal adviser and consultant to Professor John Ruggie, the UN Special Representative on Business and Human Rights, who is based at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She has advised the Special Representative on international humanitarian and human rights law, particularly with respect to international and domestic corporate criminal liability, and Indigenous peoples’ rights to land and resources.

Prior to her work with the Special Representative, Rachel completed a Master of Laws at Harvard, where she was also a researcher for the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. In Australia, Rachel has worked in the Indigenous Law and Justice Division of the Federal Attorney-General’s Department, and was an associate to the Hon Justice JD Heydon of the High Court of Australia.

Rachel is both an alumni of, and former lecturer in, the Faculty of Law at UNSW, where she worked with the Indigenous Law Bulletin and as a tutor in the Aboriginal Education Program.

Rachel recently represented the ILC at the sixth annual session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York.


Publications

R Davis, The Flandreau Police Department: An Innovative Law Enforcement Partnership between the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe and the City of Flandreau (The Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, Harvard University, forthcoming) 25 pp; (also to be included in a volume on Indigenous governance published by the University of California Press).

R Davis, “Reform of the Judicial Appointments Process: Gender and the Bench of the High Court of Australia”, 27 Melbourne University Law Review 819 (2003) (with Prof. G. Williams)

R Davis, “Invited Submission to United Kingdom Department for Constitutional Affairs, Inquiry into Constitutional Reform: A New Way of Appointing Judges” (Sept. 5, 2003) (with Prof. G. Williams)

R Davis, “Indigenous Governance” (Ch 3) and “Towards Reconciliation” (Ch 12), in Indigenous Legal Issues: Commentary and Materials (Heather McRae et al, eds., Lawbook Co, 3d ed, 2003) lviii + 732 pp (ISBN 0 455 21870 6) (with Em. Prof. G. Nettheim)

R Davis, “A Century of Appointments but Only One Woman: Gender and the Bench of the High Court of Australia”, 28 Alternative Law Journal 54 (2003) (with Prof. G. Williams)

Editor, Valuing Privacy: Legal Protections and Exceptions, University of New South Wales Law Journal Forum, Vol 7(1) (2001) 44 pp

R Davis, Economic Implications of European Integration: Privatization in Eastern Europe,27 Contemporary European Studies Association of Australia Review 24 (2000) (ISSN 1441 0052)