Dr. Gary D. Meyers is Associate Professor of Law, Associate Dean/Research and Chair of the LLM and Post-Grauate Studies Programs at Murdoch University School of Law. He has a long background in Indigenous Land Rights issues, with a particular focus on comparative natural resources rights derived from his work in the US and Australia. He is currently the Director of the Law School’s Indigenous Lands: Rights,Governance and Environmental Management Project. He has consulted widely with government and Indigenous groups. From 1995-97 he was the innaugural Director of the National Native Title Tribunal Legal Research Unit and in 1996 was Acting Director of the Tribunal’s Research Division. Before coming to Australia in 1992, Prof Meyers was Adjunct Professor of Law (1984-91) and Asistant Dean/Director of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program (1983-88) at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, USA.
At Murdoch Law School, Prof Meyers teaches Environmental Law and Native Title Law and was the foundation Coordinator of the Koora Kudidj (“Learn Before”) Indigenous Pre Law Program. He is Co-author (with, Malcolm O’Dell, Guy Wright, and Simone Muller) of A Sea Change in Land Rights Law: The Extension of Native Title to Australia’s Offshore Areas (Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Studies, Native Title Research Unit, 1997). From 1997 –2001 he was engaged in a major Australian Research Council funded research project with Prof Garth Nettheim of the University of New South Wales and Associate Professor Donna Craig of Macquarie University on Indigenous Governance Structures. Their book, entitled Indigenous Peoples and Governance Structures: A Comparative Analysis of Land and Resource Management Rights (Aboriginal Studies Press) is forthcoming later in 2001.