By Professor Megan Jane Davis

Books

Davis M; Anderson P, 2023, Our voices from the heart, HarperCollins, Sydney, NSW

Davis M; Williams G, 2021, Everything you need to know about the Uluru Statement from the Heart, NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, NSW

Davis M; Williams G, 2015, Everything you need to know about the referendum to recognise Indigenous Australians, NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, NSW

Nettheim G; McRae H; Anthony T; Beacroft L; Brennan S; Davis M; Janke T, 2009, Indigenous legal issues: Commentary and materials, Thomson Reuters, Sydney

Book Chapters

Davis M, 2022, 'The Land and Environment Court of New South Wales and the Recognition of Indigenous Peoples' Environmental Rights.', in Brian P; Elizabeth F (ed.), An Environmental Court in Action: Function, Doctrine and Process, Hart Publishing, Oxford, pp. 175 - 194, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781509941063.ch-009

Davis M, 2020, 'Native Title – A Constitutional Shift?', in Pascoe R (ed.), The Tuning Cymbal: Selected Papers and Speeches of the Hon Robert French AC, Federation Press, Annandale, NSW

Davis M, 2020, 'Simple Justice – Recognition and Sovereignty?', in Pascoe R (ed.), The Tuning Cymbal: Selected Papers and Speeches of the Hon Robert French AC, Federation Press, Annandale, NSW

Brennan S; Davis M, 2018, 'First Peoples', in Saunders C; Stone A (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Australian Constitution, Oxford University Press, pp. 27 - 55, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198738435.003.0002

Davis MJ, 2017, 'Deploying and Disputing Aboriginal Feminism in Australia', in Green J (ed.), Making Space for Indigenous Feminism, Fernwood Publishing

Davis MJ, 2017, 'Self-determination and the right to be heard', in Morris S (ed.), A rightful place: A road map to recognition, Black Inc., Carlton, Victoria

Davis MJ, 2017, 'Indigenous Women and constitutional recognition', in Irving H (ed.), Constitutions and Gender, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 357 - 386, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781784716967.00022

Davis MJ, 2016, '‘Political Timetables Trump Workable Timetables’: Indigenous Constitutional Recognition and the Temptation of Symbolism over Substance', in Young S; Nielsen J; Patrick J (ed.), Constitutional Recognition of First Peoples in Australia: Theories and Comparative Perspectives, Federation Press, Annandale, NSW

Davis MJ, 2016, 'Intersectional Theory: Where Gender meets Race, Ethnicity and Violence', in Appleby G; Dixon R (ed.), The Critical Judgments Project: Re-Reading Monis V the Queen, Federation Press, Annandale, NSW

Davis MJ, 2016, 'Putting meat on the bones of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples', in Esmaeili H; Worby G; Tur S (ed.), Indigenous Australians, social justice and legal reform: Honouring Elliott Johnston, Federation Press, Annandale, NSW, pp. 265 - 265

Davis MJ; Langton M, 2016, 'Introduction', in Davis M; Langton M (ed.), It's our country: Indigenous arguments for meaningful constitutional recognition and reform, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Victoria, pp. 1 - 26

Davis M, 2016, 'Ships that pass in the night', in Davis M; Langton M (ed.), It's our country: Indigenous arguments for meaningful constitutional recognition and reform, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Victoria, pp. 86 - 96

Davis MJ; Langton M, 2016, 'Constitutional reform in Australia: Recognition of Indigenous Australians and Reconciliation', in Macklem P; Sanderson D (ed.), From Reconciliation to Recognition: Essays on the Constitutional Entrenchment of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights, University of Toronto Press, pp. 449 - 449, https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctv2fjwvv4.21

Davis MJ, 2015, 'To recognise or not to recognise: The place of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Australian Constitution', in Tonkinson R (ed.), The Wentworth lectures: Honouring fifty years of Australian Indigenous Studies, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, ACT, pp. 298 - 298

Brennan S; Davis M; Edgeworth B; Terrill L, 2015, 'The Idea of Native Title as a Vehicle for Change and Empowerment', in Brennan S; Davis M; Edgeworth B; Terrill L (ed.), Native Title from Mabo to Akiba: A Vehicle for Change and Empowerment?, Federation Press, Annandale, NSW, pp. 2 - 13

Davis MJ, 2013, 'Climate change impacts to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Australia', in Abate R; Kronk EA (ed.), Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 493 - 507, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781781001806.00038

Davis MJ; Cottrell R, 2012, 'Affirmative Action', in Tushnet M; Fleiner T; Saunders C (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Constitutional Law, Routledge, UK, pp. 325 - 336, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203072578-33

Davis MJ, 2012, 'Identity, Power and Rights: The State, International Institutions and Indigenous Peoples in Canada', in Gomez T; Sawyer S (ed.), The Politics of Resources Extraction: Indigenous Peoples, Multinational Corporations, and the State, Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 229 - 251, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230368798_11

Davis MJ, 2011, 'Justifying Designated Parliamentary Seats: International Law and Indigenous Peoples' Right to Self-Determination', in Tham J-C; Costar B; Orr G (ed.), Electoral Democracy: Australian Prospects, Melbourne University Publishing, Victoria, pp. 78 - 98

Davis MJ, 2010, 'Restorative Justice in South Australia: An Indigenous Bill of Rights', in Berg S (ed.), Coming to Terms: Aboriginal Title in South Australia, Wakefield Press, Kent Town, SA, pp. 227 - 245

Davis MJ, 2008, ''A home at the United Nations': Indigenous peoples and international advocacy', in Cooper AF; Hocking B; Maley W (ed.), Global governance and diplomacy, Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 211 - 223, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230227422_13

Davis MJ, 2008, 'Self-determination and the Demise of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission', in Johnston E; Hinton M; Rigney D (ed.), Indigenous Australians and the Law, Routledge Cavendish, London, pp. 217 - 232, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203927960-21

Davis MJ, 2008, 'The globalisation of international human rights law, Aboriginal women and the practice of Aboriginal customary law', in Cain M; Howe A (ed.), Women, crime and social harm: Towards a criminology for the global age, Hart Publishing, Oxford, UK, pp. 137 - 160

Davis MJ, 2007, 'Arguing over Indigenous rights: Australia and the United Nations', in Altman J; Hinkson M (ed.), Coercive reconciliation: stabilise, normalise, exit Aboriginal Australia, Arena Publications, North Carlton, Victoria, pp. 97 - 107

Davis MJ, 2006, 'Chained to the past: The psychological terra nullius of Australia`s public institutions', in Campbell T; Goldsworthy J; Stone A (ed.), Protecting rights without a Bill of Rights: institutional performance and reform in Australia, Routledge, London, pp. 175 - 195, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351151245-8

Davis MJ, 2005, 'Slouching towards Australian public libraries: The World Trade Organisation General Agreement on Trade in Services', in Nakata M; Langton M (ed.), Australian Indigenous knowledge and libraries, Australian Academic and Research Libraries, Canberra, ACT, pp. 129 - 147

Edited Books

Davis M; Appleby G; Lino D; Reilly A, (eds.), 2023, Australian Public Law, Oxford University Press

Davis M; Langton M; Davis M; Langton M, (eds.), 2016, It's our country: Indigenous arguments for meaningful constitutional recognition and reform, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Victoria

Brennan S; Davis MJ; Edgeworth B; Terrill L, (eds.), 2015, Native Title from Mabo to Akiba: A Vehicle for Change and Empowerment?, Federation Press, Annandale, NSW

Journal articles

Davis M, 2023, 'Voice of reason: On recognition and renewal', Quarterly Essay, 90, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.103084876217804

Appleby G; Brennan S; Davis M, 2023, 'Comment: A First Nations Voice and the exercise of constitutional drafting', Public Law Review, 34, pp. 3 - 9

Anderson P; Davis M; Freeman T; Baum F, 2023, 'A constitutional Voice in parliament would improve the health of Aboriginal Australians', BMJ, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.p1828

Moodie N; Ward J; Dudgeon P; Adams K; Altman J; Casey D; Cripps K; Davis M; Derry K; Eades S; Faulkner S; Hunt J; Klein E; McDonnell S; Ring I; Sutherland S; Yap M, 2021, 'Roadmap to recovery: Reporting on a research taskforce supporting Indigenous responses to COVID-19 in Australia', Australian Journal of Social Issues, 56, pp. 4 - 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.133

Easteal S; Arkell RM; Balboa RF; Bellingham SA; Brown AD; Calma T; Cook MC; Davis M; Dawkins HJS; Dinger ME; Dobbie MS; Farlow A; Gwynne KG; Hermes A; Hoy WE; Jenkins MR; Jiang SH; Kaplan W; Leslie S; Llamas B; Mann GJ; McMorran BJ; McWhirter RE; Meldrum CJ; Nagaraj SH; Newman SJ; Nunn JS; Ormond-Parker L; Orr NJ; Paliwal D; Patel HR; Pearson G; Pratt GR; Rambaldini B; Russell LW; Savarirayan R; Silcocks M; Skinner JC; Souilmi Y; Vinuesa CG; Baynam G, 2020, 'Equitable Expanded Carrier Screening Needs Indigenous Clinical and Population Genomic Data', American Journal of Human Genetics, 107, pp. 175 - 182, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2020.06.005

Appleby G; Davis M, 2019, 'First Nations Voice', Company Director, 35, pp. 37 - 39, ttps://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/agispt.20200128023675

Appleby G; Davis M, 2018, 'The Uluru Statement and the Promises of Truth', Australian Historical Studies, 49, pp. 501 - 509, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2018.1523838

Davis M; Dixon R, 2016, 'Constitutional recognition through a (justiciable) duty to consult? Towards entrenched and judicially enforceable norms of Indigenous consultation', Public Law Review, 27, pp. 255 - 263

Davis MJ, 2016, 'Listening but not hearing: When process trumps substance', Griffith Review, pp. 73 - 87, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/ielapa.858555546614151

Davis MJ, 2015, 'Australia's Reconciliation Process In Its International Context: Recognition And The Health & Wellbeing Of Australia's Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Peoples', Australian Indigenous Law Review, 18, pp. 56 - 66, https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/AUIndigLawRw/2015/15.html

Davis MJ, 2015, 'Closing the Gap in Indigenous Disadvantage: A Trajectory of Indigenous Inequality in Australia', Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, 16, pp. 34 - 44, https://www.jstor.org/stable/43773665

Davis MJ, 2015, 'Indigenous Constitutional Recognition from the Point of View of Self-Determination and Its Exercise Through Democratic Participation', Indigenous Law Bulletin, 8, pp. 10 - 14, https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/IndigLawB/2015/33.html

Davis MJ, 2015, 'Seventh Annual Michael Kirby Lecture: Indigenous Australians and the Constitutional Project: The politics of discrimination and why 'recognition' is not enough', Southern Cross University Law Review, 17, pp. 3 - 18, https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/SCULawRw/2015/1.html

Brennan S; Davis M, 2014, 'Koowarta: constitutional landmark, transition point or missed opportunity?', Griffith Law Review, 23, pp. 79 - 91, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10383441.2014.944008

Davis MJ, 2014, 'Competing notions of constitutional 'recognition': truth and justice or living 'off the crumbs that fall off the white Australian tables'?', Papers on Parliament, pp. 113 - 129, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/agispt.20150108

Davis MJ, 2014, 'Comments: Future challenges on the path to constitutional recognition of Indigenous peoples', Public Law Review, 25, pp. 233 - 233

McGlade H; Davis MJ, 2014, 'The Royal Commission and International Child Rights Law', Indigenous Law Bulletin, pp. 19 - 22, https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/IndigLawB/2014/28.html

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