Mary Spiers Williams

Associate Dean (Indigenous Leadership & Engagement)

Faculty of Law

FUNDED RESEARCH

Mary's research examines social structures of colonialism and their impacts on First Peoples' and coloniser-settlers' ways of knowing (including law), and legal pluralism. Her PhD examined the impact of structural discrimination against First Peoples on legal concepts in the practice of criminal law in central Australia. Her current research concerns First Peoples' perspectives on legal Processes arising from untimely loss of life.