Published: 24 September 2018
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Australian Jewry has produced some of the country’s most influential lawyers, jurists and legal academics – from Sir Isaac Isaacs, Sir Zelman Cowen to Julius Stone. But few have changed the course of Australian history through quite like the late Ron Castan; one of Australia’s best-known human rights lawyers he was the senior counsel in the historic 1992 Mabo Ruling that recognised native title in Australia for the first time.
His daughter, Melissa Castan carries on his legacy – as a writer, researcher and associate professor of law at Monash Unversity – and thinks through the role law can play in redressing social injustices.
She is Director of Equity and Social Inclusion at Monash University and Deputy Director at the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law.
