My Expertise
Indigenous state treaty making
constitutional law
sovereign citizens
Fields of Research (FoR)
Constitutional law, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the law, Comparative lawSEO tags
Biography
Harry is an experienced constitutional and human rights lawyer working at the forefront of academic research and legal and policy debate on Indigenous-State treaty making. He holds an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Fellowship where he is investigating treaty settlements in Aotearoa New Zealand and modern treaty making processes in Canada to identify lessons for Indigenous-State treaty making across...view more
Harry is an experienced constitutional and human rights lawyer working at the forefront of academic research and legal and policy debate on Indigenous-State treaty making. He holds an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Fellowship where he is investigating treaty settlements in Aotearoa New Zealand and modern treaty making processes in Canada to identify lessons for Indigenous-State treaty making across Australia.
Alongside this work, Harry is examining the growth of sovereign citizens and pseudolaw adherents in Australia and their impact on the administration of justice. He has led an empirical study into the phenomenon in South Australia and regularly discusses this work with judicial officers and the media. The first edited book on this phenomenon, Pseudolaw and Sovereign Citizens will be out in 2025 with Hart Publishing.
My Grants
Australian Research Council DECRA 2024 - A Made in Australian Model for Indigenous State Treaty-Making
Law Foundation of South Australia 2023 - An Empirical Investigation into Sovereign Citizens and Pseudolaw in South Australia
My Awards
Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Paul Bourke Award for Early Career Research 2022
My Research Supervision
Areas of supervision
Constitutional law, Indigenous treaty-making
Publications
ORCID as entered in ROS
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9903-6908