Associate Professor Alexander (Alex) Reilly

Biography/ Background

Alex Reilly was a lecturer in the School of Law at Murdoch University, Perth from 1997 to 2000 and then a senior lecturer in the Division of Law at Macquarie University from 2001 to June 2007 when he joined the School of Law at Adelaide.

Alex is currently an Associate Professor in the School and the Associate Dean of Teaching. He teaches and researches in various areas of public law, and has a particular interest in the powers and accountability of Executive government, electoral law and policy, administrative law and Indigenous legal rights.

Teaching Interests

Foundations of Law
Administrative Law
Constitutional Law
Immigration Law
Indigenous Peoples and the Law

Professional Associations

Australian Institute of Administrative Law Incorporated

State Convenor of the Alternative law Journal

Qualifications

1995-96 LL.M. (University of British Columbia)

1993 Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (University of South Australia)

1991 LL.B.(Hons.) (University of Adelaide)

1989 B.A.(Juris.) (University of Adelaide)

Research Interests

Constitutional Law

Administrative law

Indigenous legal rights

Electoral law and policy

Legal Theory

Publications

BOOKS

With Ann Curthoys and Ann Genovese , Rights and Redemption: Indigenous Peoples, History, and Law (UNSW Press, 2008).

BOOK CHAPTERS

(2006): "Making Space for Place in the Mapping of Indigenous Country" in Gus Worby and Lester-Irabinna Rigney (eds) Sharing Spaces: Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Responses to Story, Country and Rights, 255 – 274.

(2003): "Cartography, Property and the Aesthetics of Place: Mapping Native Title in Australia" in Kenyon and Rush (ed) Aesthetics of Law and Culture: Texts, Images, Screens, 221-239.

(2002): "Budgetary Federalism" in Gabrielle Moens (ed), The Convergence of Legal Systems in the 21st Century.

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

With Larissa Behrendt, Ruth McCausland, George Williams and Mark McMillan, "The Promise of Regional Governance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities" (2007) 1 Ngiya: Talk the Law 126-166.

With Andrew Lynch, "The Constitutional Validity of Terrorism Orders of Control and Preventative Detention" (2007) 10 Flinders Journal of Law Reform 105-142.

"How Mabo Helps us Forget" (2006) 6 Macquarie Law Journal 25 - 46.

"A Constitutional Framework for Indigenous Governance" (2006) 28 Sydney Law Review 403-435.

With Ann Genovese, "Claiming the Past: Historical Understanding in Australian Native Title Jurisprudence" (2004)4 Indigenous Law Journal 19 – 42.

"Cartography and Native Title" (2003) 79 Journal of Australian Studies 1-15.

"Can Liberalism be PC? Duncan Ivisonâ€^TMs Postcolonial Liberalism" (2003) 28 Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy 171 - 188.

"From a Jurisprudence of Regret to a Regretful Jurisprudence: Shaping Native Title from Mabo to Ward" (2002) 9(4) Murdoch University E-Law Journal .

"Dedicated Seats for Indigenous Australians in Federal Parliament" 2(1) Balayi: Culture, Law and Colonialism 73 -103.

"The Ghost of Truganini: Use of Historical Evidence As Proof Of Native Title" (20000 28 Federal Law Review 453 - 475.

"Land Rights for Disenfranchised and Dispossessed Peoples in Australia and South Africa: a legislative comparison" (2000) 21 University of Queensland Law Journal 23 - 41.

"The Australian Experience Of Aboriginal Title: Lessons For South Africa" (2000) 16 South African Journal of Human Rights 512 - 534.

"Reading the Race Power: a hermeneutic analysis" (1999) 23 Melbourne University Law Review 476 - 498.

"Constitutional Principles in Canada and Australia: Lessons from the Quebec Secession Decision" (1999) 10 Public Law Review 209 - 220.

"Control In The Leviathan: Limitations On The Power Of Parliament To Pass Genocidal Laws In Australia" (1999) 3 Flinders Journal of Law Reform 247 - 271.

"Entering a Dream: Two Days of a Native Title Trial in the North-East Kimberley" (1998) 4(1) Law/Text/Culture 196 - 211.

"The Heart of the Matter: Emotion in Criminal Defences" (1997) 29 Ottawa Law Review 117 – 151.

"Self-Control in Provocation' (1997) 21 Criminal Law Journal 320 - 335.

Entry last updated: Thursday, 7 Aug 2008