Mark Harris

Dr. Mark Harris is a Global Distinguished Professor visiting from the Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on Indigenous rights in relation to cultural heritage, land claims, intellectual property, and criminal justice, as well as race and the law, human rights, and environmental justice.

Harris has worked as a lawyer advising Indigenous communities in Australia on native title claims and continues to work with Indigenous groups across a range of legal issues. He has presented at international conferences worldwide and maintains extensive collaborative relationships with academics working alongside Indigenous communities in the United States, New Zealand, India, Africa, and Brazil. As a representative of LatCrit, an NGO of legal academics working in critical race theory, he has participated in the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

His current manuscript, Human Rights, the Rule of Law and Exploitation in the Postcolony: Blood Minerals, forthcoming from Routledge, draws on postcolonial legal theory to examine exploitation in post-independence states. He also serves as editor of the Routledge book series Indigenous Peoples and the Law.