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Michael James "Mick" Dodson (born 10 April 1950, in Katherine, Northern Territory) is an Indigenous Australian barrister, academic, and member of the Yawuru peoples in the Broome area of the southern Kimberley region of Western Australia.〔(Biography at the National Museum of Australia )〕 His brother is Patrick Dodson, also a noted Aboriginal leader. Following his parents' death, he boarded at Monivae College, Hamilton, Victoria. He graduated with degrees in Jurisprudence and Law from Monash University in 1974, as the first Indigenous person to graduate from law in Australia. Following graduation, he worked as a criminal solicitor for the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service, and later as a criminal defence barrister at the Victorian Bar, where he still practices as a barrister specialising in native title. He has worked extensively as a legal adviser in native title and human rights, and as an academic in Indigenous law. He is currently Professor of Law at the Australian National University, as the director of its National Centre for Indigenous Studies, and has lectured as a visiting academic at the University of Arizona and Harvard University respectively. He has been a prominent advocate of land rights and other issues affecting Indigenous peoples in Australia and globally and has extensive involvement in the United Nations Forum on Indigenous Issues. He is the Chief Investigator for the '(Serving Our Country ): a history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the defence of Australia' project which is an Australian Research Council-funded research project based at The Australian National University. On 25 January 2009, he was named Australian of the Year.〔(Mick Dodson named Australian of the Year )〕〔Redner, Erica Jaffe (December 6, 2011). ("Voice of Conscience: Mick Dodson’s Place Amidst Australia’s Unfinished Business" ). ''Cultural Survival Quarterly'' 35-4.〕 He now lives and works in Canberra. ==Honours== *Australian of the Year, 2009 *(Chairperson ) of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies *Distinguished Alumni Award, Monash University, 1998 *Fellow, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 2009 *Honorary Member of the University of Kingwood Nationals, 2010 *Member of the Order of Australia (AM), 2003 *Member of the Order of Indonesia (PM), awarded on New Years Day 2003 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mick Dodson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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