Megan Jane Davis

Professor Megan Jane Davis is a prominent constitutional lawyer and public law expert at UNSW Sydney, where she serves as Pro Vice-Chancellor Society (PVCS). She also holds the Balnaves Chair in Constitutional Law and the Whitlam Fraser Harvard Chair in Australian Studies, with visiting professorships at Harvard Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. Her work focuses on Indigenous peoples' legal rights, constitutional recognition of First Nations, and democratic frameworks.

• Leading Australian lawyer on constitutional recognition of First Nations peoples for two decades
• Co-Chair of the Uluru Dialogue and architect of the Referendum Council’s deliberative process
• Former Commissioner on the NSW Land and Environment Court and QLD Commission of Inquiry into Youth Detention Centres
• Elected expert member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (2011–2016) and appointed to the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2017–2022)