Dr Terri Libesman researches in the fields of children and law and Indigenous peoples and the law. She works closely with Indigenous children's organisations and her work critically engages with the meaning and implementation of human rights with respect to child welfare. Her research focusses on national and comparative international models for Indigenous children's well-being. She teaches and supervises in the fields of children and the law, tort law, Indigenous peoples and the law and jurisprudence.

Terri has worked for major national inquiries including drafting chapters on contemporary child welfare and self- determination for 'Bringing them home' the report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families. She has subsequently conducted research for public inquires and on research projects examining cultural care, placement in out of home care and principles of self- determination. Terri is the author and co-author of books, chapters and journal articles including recently 'Decolonising Indigenous child welfare - comparative perspectives' 2014 published by Routledge, 'Indigenous Legal Relations in Australia' (with Larissa Behrendt and Chris Cunneen) 2009 published by Oxford University Press and in 2016 she is guest editing a special edition of the 'Australian Indigenous Law Review' on Indigenous child welfare and neo-liberalism.

Terri's current research projects include case studies of arbitrary and discriminatory removals of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families with the Secretariat for National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children (SNAICC); A mothers story with Bev Whyman and Professor Linda Briskman (Swinburne University) and an Indigenous Rule of Law with Associate Prof Mark McMIllan ( Melbourne Law School).