Ms Melissa Castan

Research Interests

Aborigines and the Law
Australian Legal System
Constitutional Law
Human Rights
Intellectual Property
International Human Rights Law
International Law
Land Title
Legal History

Supervisor Profile

Qualified to supervise: Honours; Masters; PhD;

Current projects under supervision

Honours:

3 LLB Honours theses and 3 LLB research projects

Masters:

1 LLM Graduate research paper

Doctoral:

Human rights obligations and climate change
(co-supervisor: Gerry nagtzaam)

Determining native title

Neo-liberalist doctrine of individual rights
(co-supervisor: Patrick Emerton)

The Koori Court of Victoria: An answer to cultural and language disadvange for indigenous offenders in the criminal justice system?

Editorial Boards

Editorial Committee Member- Alternative Law Journal

Publications

2012

Journal Articles

S McKemmish, L Iacovino, L Russell, M Castan, ‘Editors' introduction to Keeping cultures alive: Archives and Indigenous human rights' (2012) 12(2) Archival Science 93-111

M Castan & J Debeljak ‘Indigenous Peoples' Human Rights and the Victorian Charter: a Framework for Reorienting Recordkeeping and Archival Practice' (2012) 12(2) Archival Science 213-234

2011

A Gargett, P Gerber, M Castan, 'A right to birth registration in the Victorian Charter? Seek and you shall not find!', (2011) 36(3) Monash University Law Review 1-32.

M Castan, 'Constitutional deficiencies in the protection of indigenous rights: reforming the 'races power'', (2011) 7(25) Indigenous Law Bulletin 12-17.

P Gerber, A Gargett, M Castan, 'Does the right to birth registration include a right to a birth certificate?' (2011) 29(4) Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights 434-459.

M Castan, P Gerber, A Gargett, 'Indigenous Australians' access to birth registration systems: a breach of international human rights law?', (2011) 17(1) Australian Journal of Human Rights 55-89.

S McKemmish, L Iacovino, E Ketelaar, M Castan, L Russell, 'Resetting relationships: Archives and Indigenous human rights in Australia', (2011) 39(1) Archives & Manuscripts 107-144.

Selected list of publications, including those prior to 2011