Dr Christine Black

BA (Hons), Phd

Citizenship: Australian Aborigine (Kombumerri and Munaljahlai Peoples)

Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Coastal Management, Griffith University.

Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Socio-Legal Research Centre, Griffith Law School.

Visiting Fellow, Endeavor Award Fellowship, University of the South Pacific, Law School, Vanuatu, 2008.

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Research Expertise

• Indigenous jurisprudence and traditional stories of climate change.
• Position Paper on Indigenous Children and Aboriginal Law:An Alternative Regulatory Mechanism for Managing Climate Change  . 
• Protection of Indigenous genetic material and benefit sharing of biodiversity products – expert to CBD & ICUN
• Harvard Business School theory and Indigenous traditional trading practices.  
• Visiting Research fellowship McGill Law School, to develop the Indigenous Law course. 2007/2008

Publications

Black, C.F, "The Land is the Source of the Law: A Dialogic Encounter with an Indigenous Jurisprudence, Routledge-Cavendish, UK (forthcoming 2010).

Black, C.F., "How can you know the law if you don’t live the stories?:Indigentiy, Sovereignty, and Law in Aboriginal Australia". In South Atlantic Quarterly, Duke University Press, USA (forthcoming 2010).

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.