Publications

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Megan Davis and Sean Brennan, Indigenous Legal Issues: Commentary and Materials (5th edition, forthcoming, Thomson Reuters)
Gabrielle Appleby and Megan Davis, Rule of Law in Context: Australia (Hart Publishing, forthcoming 2026)
Gabrielle Appleby and Megan Davis (eds) The Failure of the Voice Referendum and the Future of Australian Democracy (Anthem Press, 2025)
Gabrielle Appleby, Megan Davis, Dylan Lino and Alexander Reilly, Australian Public Law (4th edition, Oxford University Press, 2024)
Patricia Anderson and Megan Davis, Our Voices from the Heart: The Authorised Story of the Community Campaign that Changed Australia (HarperCollins, 2023)
Megan Davis and George Williams, Everything you need to know about the Voice (ÑÇÃÀÆåÅÆ Press, 2023)
Megan Davis and George Williams, Everything you need to know about the Uluru Statement from the Heart (ÑÇÃÀÆåÅÆ Press 2023)
Megan Davis, Marcia Langton (eds), It's our country: Indigenous arguments for meaningful constitutional recognition and reform (Melbourne University Press, 2016)
Megan Davis and George Williams, Everything you need to know about the Referendum to Recognise Indigenous Australians (NewSouth Publishing 2015)
Sean Brennan, Megan Davis, Brendan Edgeworth and Leon Terrill (eds) Native Title from Mabo to Akiba: A Vehicle for Change and Empowerment? (Federation Press, 2015)
G Nettheim, H McRae, T Anthony, L Beacroft, S Brennan, M Davis, T Janke, Indigenous Legal Issues: Commentary and Materials (4th ed, Thomson Reuters 2009)
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Gabrielle Appleby and Megan Davis, ‘First Nations Constitutional Recognition in Australia: Addressing Foundational Failures of Rule of Law’ in David Capper (et al) Law and Constitutional Change (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
Gabrielle Appleby, Sean Brennan and Megan Davis, ‘A First Nations Voice and the exercise of constitutional drafting’ (2023) 34 Public Law Review 3
Gabrielle Appleby, Ron Levy and Helen Whalan, ‘Voice versus Rights: The First Nations Voice and the Australian Constitutional Legitimacy Crisis’ (2023) 46(3) University of New South Wales Law Journal 761
Gabrielle Appleby, ‘The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice: A Modest, Yet Transformative Proposal’ (2023) 26 Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues
Gabrielle Appleby, ‘The First Nations Voice and Parliament: A New Constitutional Relationship’ (2023) 38(1) Australasian Parliamentary Review 18
Megan Davis '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 2022) 175 - 194,Â
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,Â
Megan Davis 'Native Title – A Constitutional Shift?' in Pascoe R (ed.), The Tuning Cymbal: Selected Papers and Speeches of the Hon Robert French AC (Federation Press 2020)
Megan Davis, 'Simple Justice – Recognition and Sovereignty?', in Pascoe R (ed.), The Tuning Cymbal: Selected Papers and Speeches of the Hon Robert French AC, (Federation Press, 2020)
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,Â
Gabrielle Appleby, Vanessa MacDonell and Eddie Synot, ‘The Pervasive Constitution: The Constitution outside the Courts’ (2020) 48(4) Federal Law Review 437
Gabrielle Appleby and Eddie Synot, ‘A First Nations Voice: Institutionalising Political Listening’ (2020) 48(4) Federal Law Review 529
Sean Brennan and Megan Davis 'First Peoples', in Saunders C; Stone A (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Australian Constitution, (Oxford University Press, 2018) 27 - 55,Â
Gabrielle Appleby and Megan Davis, ‘Uluru and the Contested Promises of Truth’ (2018) 49 Australian Historical Studies 501
Megan Davis, 'Deploying and Disputing Aboriginal Feminism in Australia', in Green J (ed.), Making Space for Indigenous Feminism, (Fernwood Publishing, 2017)
Megan Davis, 'Indigenous Women and constitutional recognition', in Irving H (ed.), Constitutions and Gender, (Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2017) 357 - 386,Â
Megan Davis, 'Self-determination and the right to be heard', in Morris S (ed.), A rightful place: A road map to recognition, (Black Inc., 2017)
Gabrielle Appleby and Gemma McKinnon ‘Lessons of 1967 Referendum Still Apply to Debates on Constitutional Recognition’ in John Watson (ed), The Conversation Yearbook 2017: 50 Standout Articles from Australia’s Top Thinkers (Melbourne University Press, 2017)
Megan Davis, '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, 2016) 86 - 96
Megan Davis and Marcia Langton, , 'Introduction', in Davis M; Langton M (ed.), It's our country: Indigenous arguments for meaningful constitutional recognition and reform, (Melbourne University Press, 2016) 1 - 26
Megan Davis and Marcia Langton, '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, 2016) 449,Â
Megan Davis, '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, 2016)
Megan Davis, '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, 2016)
Megan Davis, '‘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, 2016)
Megan Davis and Rosalind Dixon, 'Constitutional recognition through a (justiciable) duty to consult? Towards entrenched and judicially enforceable norms of Indigenous consultation', (2016) 27 Public Law Review 255 – 263
Megan Davis, , 'Australia's Reconciliation Process In Its International Context: Recognition And The Health & Wellbeing Of Australia's Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Peoples', (2015) Australian Indigenous Law Review, 18, pp. 56 - 66,Â
Megan Davis, 'Closing the Gap in Indigenous Disadvantage: A Trajectory of Indigenous Inequality in Australia', (2015) 16 Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, 34 - 44,Â
Megan Davis, 'Indigenous Constitutional Recognition from the Point of View of Self-Determination and Its Exercise Through Democratic Participation', (2015) 8 Indigenous Law Bulletin, 10 - 14,Â
Megan Davis, 'Seventh Annual Michael Kirby Lecture: Indigenous Australians and the Constitutional Project: The politics of discrimination and why 'recognition' is not enough', (2015) 17 Southern Cross University Law Review, 3 - 18,Â
Gabrielle Appleby ‘Constitutionalising an Indigenous Voice in Australian Law-making: Some institutional Design Challenges’ (2015) 18 Australian Indigenous Law Review 98
Gabrielle Appleby ‘An Indigenous Advisory Body: Some Questions of Design’ (2015) 19(8) Indigenous Law Bulletin 3
Sean Brennan; Megan Davis; Brendan Edgeworth; Leon Terrill, '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, 2015)
Megan Davis, '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, 2015)
Sean Brennan and Megan Davis, 'Koowarta: constitutional landmark, transition point or missed opportunity?', (2014) 23 Griffith Law Review 79 - 91,Â
Megan Davis, 'Comments: Future challenges on the path to constitutional recognition of Indigenous peoples', (2014) 25 Public Law Review 233 - 233
Megan Davis, 'Competing notions of constitutional 'recognition': truth and justice or living 'off the crumbs that fall off the white Australian tables'?', (2014) Papers on Parliament, pp. 113 - 129,Â
Hannah McGlade and Megan Davis, 'The Royal Commission and International Child Rights Law', (2014) Indigenous Law Bulletin, pp. 19 - 22,Â
Megan Davis, 'Comments: Speaking ill of the dead: A comment on s 25 of the Constitution', (2013) 23 Public Law Review 231 - 231
Megan Davis, 'Community Control And The Work Of The National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation: Putting Meat On The Bones Of the UNDRIP', (2013) Indigenous Law Bulletin,Ìý8,Ìýpp. 11 - 14,Â
Megan Davis, '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, 2013)
Davis MJ, 2012, 'Aboriginal Women: The Right to Self-Determination [2012 Narrm Oration]', Australian Indigenous Law Review, 16, pp. 78 - 88,Â
Davis MJ, 2012, 'Constitutional Recognition Does Not Foreclose On Aboriginal Sovereignty', Indigenous Law Bulletin,Ìý8,Ìý
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,Â
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,Â
Davis MJ, 2011, 'A Reflection on the Limitations of the Right of Self-Determination and Aboriginal Women', Indigenous Law Bulletin, 7, pp. 6 - 8,Â
Davis MJ, 2011, 'Constitutional Reform and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People: Why do We Want it Now?', Indigenous Law Bulletin, 7, pp. 8 - 22,Â
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; Lemezina , 2010, 'Indigenous Australians and the Preamble: Towards a More Inclusive Constitution or Entrenching Marginalisation?', The University of New South Wales law journal, 33, pp. 239 - 266,Â
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, 2009, 'ATSIC and Indigenous Women: Lessons for the Future', Balayi: culture, law and colonialism, 10, pp. 73 - 86,Â
Davis MJ, 2009, 'Indigenous Struggles in Standard-Setting: The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples', Melbourne Journal of International Law, 9, pp. 439 - 471,Â
Davis MJ, 2009, 'International Human Rights Law, Women's Rights and the Intervention', Indigenous Law Bulletin, pp. 11 - 11,Â
Davis MJ, 2008, 'Indigenous Rights and the Constitution: Making the Case for Constitutional Reform', Indigenous Law Bulletin, 7, pp. 6 - 8,Â
Davis MJ, 2008, 'Indigenous Women's Representation and the Proposal for a New National Representative Body', Indigenous Law Bulletin, 7, pp. 6 - 9,Â
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,Â
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,Â
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 M, 2007, 'The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples', Indigenous Law Bulletin,Ìý6,Ìý
Davis MJ; Brennan S, 2007, 'A narrative of exclusion: Indigenous rights in Australia', Human Rights Defender, 16, pp. 15 - 17,Â
Davis MJ, 2007, 'Aboriginal or Institutional Silence?: A Brief Comment on the National Emergency Response to the Anderson Wild Report', Indigenous Law Bulletin,Ìý6,Ìýpp. 2 - 3,Â
Davis MJ, 2007, 'Election 2007: Indigenous policy – unfinished business', Australian Review of Public Affairs, Digest, November 2007,Â
Davis MJ, 2007, 'How Do Aboriginal Women Fare in Australia Democracy?', Indigenous Law Bulletin,Ìý6,Ìýpp. 9 - 11,Â
Davis MJ, 2007, 'Parliamentary Inquiries Into Free Trade Agreements and Indigenous Issues', Journal of Indigenous Policy, 7, pp. 90 - 98,Â
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, 2007, 'The Challenges of Indigenous Women in Liberal Democracies', Indigenous Law Bulletin, 7, pp. 20 - 22,Â
Davis MJ, 2007, 'The Recognition of Aboriginal Customary Law and International Law Developments', Indigenous Peoples: Issues in International and Australian Law, Martin Place Papers No. 6, 2007, pp. 25 - 30,Â
Journal articles | 2007
Davis MJ, 2007, 'The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples', Australian Indigenous Law Review, 11, pp. 55 - 63,Â
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,Â
Davis MJ; Watson N, 2006, '"It's the same old song": Draconian Counter-Terrorism Laws and the Déjà Vu of Indigenous Australians', Borderlands E-Journal: new spaces in the humanities,Ìý5,Ìý
Davis MJ, 2006, 'A Culture of Disrespect: Indigenous Peoples and Australian Public Institutions', The UTS Law Review,Ìý8,Ìýpp. 136 - 154,Â
Davis MJ, 2006, 'International Trade, The World Trade Organisation and the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples', Balayi: culture, law and colonialism, pp. 5 - 30,Â
Davis MJ, 2006, 'Treaty, yeah? The utility of a treaty to advancing reconciliation in Australia', Alternative Law Journal, 31, pp. 127 - 136,Â
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
Davis MJ, 2005, 'International Trade Law and Indigenous Peoples: A New Direction in Human Rights Advocacy', Australian Indigenous Law Reporter, 9, pp. 16 - 22,Â
Davis MJ, 2004, 'Indigenous Australia and the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement', Indigenous Law Bulletin,Ìý5,Ìýpp. 20 - 23,Â
Davis MJ, 2003, 'Civics education and human rights', Australian Journal of Human Rights, 9, pp. 236 - 255,Â
Megan Davis, 2002, 'The United Nations Draft Declaration 2002', Indigenous Law Bulletin,Ìý5,Ìýpp. 6 - 9,Â
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- Gabrielle Appleby and Megan Davis, Submission on the Truth and Justice Commission Bill 2024 to the Joint Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander AffairsÌý(2024)
- Gabrielle Appleby, Sean Brennan, Megan Davis, Dylan Lino, Eddie Synot, Submission to the Inquiry into the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice Referendum, Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 (2023)
- Gabrielle Appleby, Megan Davis, Janine Gertz, Eddie Synot and Sophie Rigney, Submission to the Inquiry into the Application of the UNDRIP of the Joint Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs (2022)
- Gabrielle Appleby, Sean Brennan, Megan Davis and Dylan Lino, Submission to the Constitutional Reform and Referendums Inquiry of the Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs (House of Representatives) (2021)
- Patricia Anderson, Megan Davis, Noel Pearson, Sean Brennan, Gabrielle Appleby, Dylan Lino, Gemma McKinnon, Submission to the Joint Select Committee on Constitutional Recognition relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (2018)
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- Gabrielle Appleby, Sean Brennan and Paul Kildea, Expert analysis of the ‘Official Yes/No Cases’ published by the Australian Electoral Commission, Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 (Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law & Indigenous Law Centre, ÑÇÃÀÆåÅÆ, 28 August 2023)
- Indigenous Law Centre, supported by the Law Council of Australia and the Australian Association of Constitutional Law, First Nations Voice Constitutional Amendment & Referendum: Report on National Consultation with Targeted Members of the Legal Profession (December 2022)\
- Gabrielle Appleby, Sean Brennan and Megan Davis, Issues Paper 1: The Constitutional Amendment (Indigenous Law Centre Report, September 2022)
- Gabrielle Appleby, Sean Brennan and Megan Davis, Issues Paper 2: The Referendum Question (Indigenous Law Centre Report, September 2022)
- Gabrielle Appleby, Sean Brennan and Megan Davis, Issues Paper 3: Finalisation of the Voice Design (Indigenous Law Centre Report, September 2022)
- Gabrielle Appleby, Emma Buxton-Namisnyk and Dani Larkin, Expert Analysis of the NIAA Public Consultations (2021)