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Dr Kate Galloway AM is a consultant lawyer, and a writer and researcher on the law.

She draws on over 30 years’ experience as a lawyer, and 20 years’ experience as a legal researcher and educator to analyse, advise, advocate, and strategise on land tenure, recognition of First Peoples, and corporate governance.

Dr Galloway is a nationally renowned law professor with a long-established reputation as a leader and innovator in legal education. She specialises in the design and implementation of contemporary, professionally accredited law curricula to educate highly skilled, culturally intelligent, and ethically-minded legal practitioners.

She brings to her work high level analytical skills, written and oral communication tailored to diverse audiences and contexts, and strategic acumen.

Dr Galloway is available to consult as a legal researcher and writer, in professional legal development program design, legal training, and community legal education, and on governance of for-purpose organisations.

She does not accept direct instruction on legal matters.

Qualifications, Appointments

  • Bachelor of Economics (UQ)
  • Bachelor of Laws (UQ)
  • Master of Laws (by research) (QUT)
  • PhD (Melbourne)
  • Admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland, High Court of Australia (1992)
  • Member of the Order of Australia
  • Fellow, Australian Academy of Law
  • Principal Fellow, Higher Education Academy
  • Fellow, Governance Institute of Australia
  • Adjunct Research Fellow, Griffith University
  • Affiliate Member, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law

Published Works

Kate has a track record of peer reviewed scholarly work, law reform submissions, and commentary. Her writing canvasses a diverse portfolio including:

  • land tenure
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and the law
  • environmental justice
  • technology, ethics, and the law
  • legal education
  • human rights
  • social justice
  • women’s rights

You can find Kate’s work catalogued in various locations:

See also our discipline-wide collaborative work on Climate Conscious Lawyers.

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