Alex Reilly
Senior Lecturer
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• Biography
• Principal Subjects Taught
• Research Interests

• Recent Publications:
  • Book Chapters  and Refereed Journal Articles

Alex Reilly teaches and researches in public law. He has a particular interest in electoral law, administrative law and Indigenous legal issues. He is a project partner in the Gilbert and Tobin Public Law Centre Indigenous rights, land and governance project and is a researcher and collaborator on two Australian Research Council projects; one considering the use of Australian colonial history in Indigenous claims to land and compensation, and another developing a legal framework for regional governance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Australia.

Principal Subjects Taught

Administrative Laws

Australian Public Law
Indigenous Legal Issues
Electoral Law

Recent Publications

Book Chapters  

• “Making Space for Place in the Mapping of Indigenous Country” in Gus Worby and Lester-Irabinna Rigney (eds) Sharing Spaces: Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Responses to Story, Country and Rights (2006), 255 – 274.
  
• “Cartography, Property and the Aesthetics of Place: Mapping Native Title in Australia” in Kenyon and Rush (ed) Aesthetics of Law and Culture: Texts, Images, Screens (2003), 221-239.

Refereed Journal Articles  

• With Andrew Lynch, “The Constitutional Validity of Terrorism Orders of Control and Preventative Detention”, (2007) 10 Flinders Journal of Law Reform 105 – 142.
  
•  “How Mabo helps us Forget” (2006) 6 Macquarie Law Journal 25 - 46.
  
•  “A Constitutional Framework for Indigenous Governance” (2006) 28 Sydney Law Review 403-435.
  
• With Ann Genovese “Claiming the Past: Historical Understanding in Australian Native Title Jurisprudence” (2004) 3 Indigenous Law Journal 19 – 42.
  
• Cartography and Native Title” (2003) 79 Journal of Australian Studies 1-15.
  
• “Can Liberalism be PC? Duncan Ivison’s Postcolonial Liberalism” (2003) 28 Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy 171 - 188.
  
• “From a Jurisprudence of Regret to a Regretful Jurisprudence: Shaping Native Title from Mabo to Ward”, Murdoch University E-Law Journal Vol 9(4) 2002.
  
• “Dedicated Seats for Indigenous Australians in Federal Parliament” (2001) 2(1) Balayi: Culture, Law and Colonialism 73.
  
• “The Ghost Of Truganini: Use Of Historical Evidence As Proof Of Native Title” (2000) 28 Federal Law Review 453.
  
• “Land Rights for Disenfranchised and Dispossessed Peoples in Australia and South Africa: a legislative comparison” (2000) 21 University of Queensland Law Journal 23.
  
• “The Australian Experience Of Aboriginal Title: Lessons For South Africa” (2000) 16 South African Journal of Human Rights 512.
  
• “Reading the Race Power: a hermeneutic analysis” (1999) 23 Melbourne University Law Review 476.