ANU COLLEGE OF LAW

Qualifications	BA.LLB (Hons) (W.Aust), Postgrad. Dip. (Melb); Ph.D. (ANU); Barrister & Solicitor WA.
Biography	Dr Anthony J. Connolly completed his BA.LLB (Hons) at the University of Western Australia. Following this he practiced law for a number of years, predominantly as a human rights lawyer working with indigenous people in Western Australia. In 2001, he was appointed to the Law School of the Australian National University where he specialises in legal philosophy, indigenous rights law, and public law. In 2007, he was awarded a Ph.D. in philosophy from the Research School of the Social Sciences at the Australian National University under the supervision of Professors Philip Pettit (Princeton) and Robert Goodin (ANU). He is the author of Cultural Difference on Trial: The Nature and Limits of Judicial Understanding (Ashgate Publishing (UK): 2010) and the editor of Indigenous Rights (Ashgate Publishing (UK): 2009). He has also published a number of book chapters and journal articles on legal philosophy and indigenous rights. At present he is completing a book on indigenous rights to be published by University of Pennsylvania Press in 2011. He is currently the Director of the LLB Program at the ANU Law School and will take on the role of Head of School in 2010.
Scholarly Interests	Legal Philosophy, Indigenous Rights Law, Constitutional and Public Law, Evidence, Legal Education.
Recent Publications	Cultural Difference on Trial: The Nature and Limits of Judicial Understanding. Ashgate Publishing (UK) (January 2010). Indigenous Rights. (Ed.). Ashgate Publishing (UK) (2009). ‘Judicial Conceptions of Tradition in Canadian Aboriginal Rights Law’, 7 The Asia-Pacific Journal of Anthropology (April 2006), pp.27-44.

Name	Anthony Connolly
Room	272
Tel	6125 4123
Fax	6125 3971
Email	tony.connolly@anu.edu.au