Mark McMillan

Dr Mark McMillan is a Wiradjuri man from Trangie, NSW. He is an Associate Professor at the Melbourne Law School where he is been on the faculty since 2011.

In 2013 Mark was awarded the National NAIDOC Scholar of the Year award.

Mark has received his Bachelor of Laws from The Australian National University, a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from The Australian National University, a Master of Laws and a Doctor of Juridical Science from the University of Arizona, a Certificate II in Indigenous Leadership from the Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre and a Graduate Certificate in Wiradjuri Hertiage, Language and Culture from Charles Sturt University.

Mark was admitted to the Roll of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory as a Legal Practitioner in 2001.

Mark is a current board member of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples and the Trangie Local Aboriginal Land Council.

His research interests are in the area of human rights and, in particular, the expression and fulfillment of those rights for Indigenous Australians. He is currently working on an ARC grant relating to Indigenous governance and jurisdiction for native nations. He intends on expanding his research outcomes to include the application of ‘constitutionalism’ for Indigenous Australians, with a particular emphasis on the use of current constitutional law for the protections envisioned for Indigenous people in the constitutional referendum of 1967.