Ms Melissa Castan

Senior Lecturer
BA, LLB(Hons), LLM,

Professional Profile

Melissa Castan is a Senior Lecturer, and Deputy Director for the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law. Her teaching and research interests are Constitutional Law, Indigenous Legal Issues and Legal Education .

She is co-author, with Dr Sarah Joseph, and Jenny Schultz of  The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Cases, Commentary and Materials (2004), and with Dr Sarah Joseph of  Federal Constitutional Law: A Contemporary View (2006).

Areas of Expertise

Indigenous legal issues
Constitutional law
Australian legal systems

Teaching Commitments

Constitutional Law 312 (LAW3200)
Constitutional Law 306 (LAW3201)
Indigenous Peoples and the Law (LAW4158)
Indigenous Rights and International Law (LAW7260)
Introduction to Legal Reasoning (LAW1101)
Legal Research and Problem Solving (LAW7079)
Principles of Constitutional Law (LAW7268)
Research Unit A (LAW4173)