Sean Brennan works in the areas of constitutional law and Aboriginal legal issues. He co-edited Native Title From Mabo to Akiba: A Vehicle for Change and Empowerment? (Federation Press, 2015) and is a co-author of Blackshield and Williams Australian Constitutional Law and Theory (Federation Press, 8th ed, 2024). He was formerly Director of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law (2014-2019) and remains Director of its Indigenous Legal Issues Project. In 2016-17 he was a member of the pro bono legal team that supported the Regional Dialogues and First Nations Constitutional Convention, the process which culminated in the Uluru Statement from the Heart. Visit Sean’s homepage.

Posts by Sean

• Commonwealth v Yunupingu: A Constitutional Case Testing Commonwealth Liability for Aboriginal Dispossession

• Constitutional drafting: Key questions

• Timber Creek and Australia’s Second Chance to Grasp the Opportunity of Mabo

• High Court sharply divided in latest native title case

• Welcome to AUSPUBLAW