Dr. Mark Harris is an Associate Professor visiting from the Institute of Gender,

Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia in

Vancouver, Canada. His research focuses on Indigenous rights in relation to

cultural heritage, land claims, the stolen generations, intellectual property and

criminal justice issues. His research also focuses upon race and the law,

human rights and environmental justice. He has worked as a lawyer giving

advice on native title claims for the Indigenous communities in Australia and

continues to work to Indigenous groups on a range of issues. He has

presented at international conferences around the world and has developed

extensive collaborative links with other academics working with and for

Indigenous communities in the USA, New Zealand, India, Africa and Brazil. As

a representative of LatCrit, an NGO comprising legal academics working in

the field of critical race theory and racism, he has participated in the United

Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. He also works in the field of

postcolonial legal theory, which informs the current manuscript he is working

on, titled Human Rights, the Rule of Law and Exploitation in the Postcolony:

Blood Minerals that will be published by Routledge later this year or early

2024. He is also currently the editor for the Routledge book series, Indigenous

Peoples and the Law.