BA (Hons), Phd
Citizenship: Australian Aborigine (Kombumerri and Munaljahlai Peoples)
Griffith Climate Change Response Program, Research Grant Fellow
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Coastal Management, Griffith University.
Contact Details for Dr Christine Black
Research Expertise
- Indigenizing Climate Change Adaptation policy
- CBD Biodiversity and traditional knowledge expert witness
- Indigenous Jurisprudence and Traditional Stories
- Indigenous Media and Arts Research
- Native American Law and Culture
- Visiting Research Fellowship McGill Law School, to develop the Indigenous Law course. 2007/2008
- Visiting Fellow, Endeavor Award Fellowship, University of the South Pacific, Law School, Vanuatu, 2008.
Publications
- Black, C.F, "The Land is the Source of the Law: A Dialogic Encounter with an Indigenous Jurisprudence, Routledge-Cavendish, 2010.
- Black, C.F., "Maturing Australia Through Australian Aboriginal Narrative Law". In South Atlantic Quarterly, Duke University Press, USA (Spring, 2011).
- Black, C.F., "A Timely Jurisprudence for a Changing World", in International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, Springer, New York, 2009.
- Black, C.F., Johnstone, R.and McVeigh, S., "Of the South" Griffith Law Journal, Vol. 16 No. 2 Griffith University, Brisbane, 2008.
- Morris (Black), C. and Meadowsn, M., "Indigenous Communication Response, A Smart State Response" in Breit, R. and Servaes, J. (eds.), Information Society or Knowledge Societies UNESCO in the Smart State, Southbound Publictions, Penang, 2005.
- Morris (Black), C. and Meadows, M.,"Digital Dreaming: Indigenous Intellectural Property and New Communication Technologies", in Goggin G. (ed.), Virtual Nation: an Australian Internet Reader, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2004.
- Morris (Black), C. and Meadows, M.,"Framing the future: Indigenous communication in Australia", in Couldry, N. and Curran J., (eds.), Contesting Media Power, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Boulder, Colorado, USA, 2003.
- Morris (Black), C.,"Consitutional Dreaming", in Beyond the Republic Meeting the Global Challenges to Constitutionalism, Sampford, C. and Round, T. (eds.), Federation Press, New South Wales, 2000.
- Morris (Black), C., "A Full Law", Posey, D.(ed.), London: Cultural and Spiritual Values of Biodiversity - A complimentary contribution to the Global Biodiversity Assessment, United Nations Environment Program and Intermediate Technology, 1999.
- Morris (Black), C., "Oral Tradition Under Threat", Pattel-Gray (ed.), in Aboriginal Spirituality - Past, Present, Future, Harper Collins, Publishers, Sydney, 1996.