Ms Melissa Castan

Senior Lecturer
BA, LLB(Hons), LLM,

Professional Profile

Melissa Castan is a Senior Lecturer, and Deputy Director for the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law. Her teaching and research interests are Constitutional Law, Indigenous Legal Issues and Legal Education .

She is co-author, with Dr Sarah Joseph, and Jenny Schultz of  The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Cases, Commentary and Materials (2004), and with Dr Sarah Joseph of  Federal Constitutional Law: A Contemporary View (2006).

A selection of Ms Castan's publications is available at:
http://ssrn.com/author=87538

Areas of Expertise

Indigenous legal issues
Constitutional law
Australian legal systems

Teaching Commitments

Constitutional law 306 (Sem 2/T3) (2011) (LAW3201)
Introduction to legal reasoning (Sem2/T3) (2011) (LAW1101)