Dr Stephen Gray

Senior Lecturer
PhD, LLM, BA/LLB (Hons),

Professional Profile

After completing a law degree at Monash University, Stephen was employed at Charles Darwin (previously Northern Territory) University for fourteen years teaching Criminal Law, Intellectual Property, Indigenous People and the Law and Jurisprudence, amongst other subjects.

In 1998 Stephen completed an LLM on legal avenues for protection of aboriginal art at Melbourne University.

He was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory in April 1990.

Stephen has been involved with various committees and community associations.  He has been a member of the Northern Territory Law Reform Committee since 1994, and was on its Committee on Customary Law from 2002 until it reported in late 2003.

In 2004 he published Criminal Laws Northern Territory and is also the author of the novel The Artist is a Thief (2001).

His current research projects include the 'stolen wages' issue and indigenous people, on which he is currently writing a book.

A selection of Stephen's publications is available on-line at:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=865912

Areas of Expertise

Criminal law
Indigenous legal issues
Intellectual property

Teaching Commitments

Overview of Intellectual Property (Sem2/T3) (2011) (LAW7223)
Criminal law and procedure B (Sem2/T3) (2011) (LAW3302)