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Melissa Castan is a Professor at Monash Law. She teaches and writes in the areas of public law, constitutional law and Indigenous Peoples rights. Her research focuses on the relationship between constitutional law, Indigenous rights and human rights law. Melissa authored LawBriefs: Constitutional Law (Thomson Reuters, 2015) and is co-author with Professor Sarah Joseph of Federal Constitutional Law: A Contemporary View (Thomson Reuters, 6th ed, 2024). She is the Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, the National Editor for the Alternative Law Journal and co-host of the legal issues podcast Case in Point.