Professor Asmi Wood
BE LLB (Hons) PhD
Professor, ANU College of Law and Sub-Dean (Indigenous)
ANU College of Law
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02 6125 8141
Areas of expertise
- Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Law 180101
- Comparative Law 180106
- International Law (Excl. International Trade Law) 180116
- Legal Theory, Jurisprudence And Legal Interpretation 180122
- Other Law And Legal Studies 1899
- Religion And Religious Studies 2204
Biography
National Teaching Award (2015) Neville Bonner Prize (OL&T)
Vice Chancellor's Teaching Excellence Award 2010
Publications
- Wood, A 2022, 'Treaty Making (Makarrata) and an 'Invisible' People: Seeking a Just Peace After 'Conflict'', in Kelli Te Maih?roa, Michael Ligaliga, Heather Devere (ed.), Decolonising Peace and Conflict Studies through Indigenous Research, Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore, Singapore, pp. 231-268.
- Wood, A 2021, 'Establishing a Neutral Legal framework for Treaty in Australia', in Harry Hobbs (ed.), Treaty-Making 250 Years Later, The Federation Press, Sydney, pp. 76-101.
- Kilduff, P & Wood, A 2021, 'Determining sovereignty: Through law? Or a political option?', Australian Bar Review, vol. 50, pp. 476-498.
- Wood, A & Gardiner, C 2021, 'Identifying a Legal Framework for a Treaty between Australia's First Peoples and the State', in Diane Smith, Alice Wighton, Stephen Cornell and Adam Vai Delaney (ed.), Developing Governance and Governing Development: International Case Studies of Indigenous Futures, Rowman and Littlefield International, USA, pp. 63-84.
- Wood, A 2021, 'Australia and pandemics v BLM: No, Love Lost (at the High Court) Part I', Alternative Law Journal, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 178-184.
- Wood, A 2021, 'Australia and Pandemics v BLM: No, Love Lost (at the High Court) Part II', Alternative Law Journal, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 314-319.
- Thornton, M & Wood, A 2020, 'Australia: A Legal Profession Globalised and Magnified', in R L Abel, O Hammerslev, H Sommerlad & U Schultz (ed.), Lawyers in 21st-Century Societies, Hart Publishing, London, pp. 45-64.
- Wood, A 2020, 'Self-determination under international law and some possibilities for Australia's Indigeneous peoples', in Laura Rademaker & Tim Rowse (ed.), Indigenous Self-Determination in Australia: Histories and Historiography, ANU Press, Canberra, Australia, pp. 269-292.
- Burns, M, Hong, A & Wood, A 2019, Indigenous Cultural Competency for Legal Academics Program.
- Wood, A 2019, 'Law and Native Title', in Larissa Behrendt, Chris Cunneen, Terri Libesman and Nicole Watson (ed.), Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Relations, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 167-180.
- Buchowska, z & Wood, A 2019, 'Indigenous experiences of higher education — the role of the ANU Tjabal Indigenous Higher Education Centre', Australian Aboriginal Studies, vol. 2019, no. 1.
- Wood, A & Watson, N 2018, 'Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?', Legal Education Review, vol. 28 , no. 2, pp. 1-16.
- Wood, A & Levy, R 2019, 'A Mini-public of Academics: Experimenting with Deliberative Democracy and Indigenous Cultural Competency in Legal Education', Legal Education Review, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 1-17.
- Macintosh, A, Waschka, M, Jones, J et al. 2017, Costs, benefits, institutional and social considerations for irrigation development. A technical report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Northern Australia Water Resource Assessment, part of the National Water Infrastructure Development Fund: Wa.
- Wood, A 2017, 'The Confluence of Two Rivers: Constitutional Recognition of Australia’s First Peoples', in Heather Devere, Kelli Te Maiharoa,ohn P. Synott (ed.), Peacebuilding and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Experiences and Strategies for the 21st Century, Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland, pp. 89-103.
- Dodson, M, Wood, A & Bailey, P 2016, 'Australia and the International Protection of Indigenous Rights', in Donald R Rothwell & Emily Crawford (ed.), International Law in Australia, Thomson Reuters (Professional) Australia Limited, Sydney Australia.
- Wood, A 2016, 'Constitutional recognition: a case for less is more', in Megan Davis, Marcia Langton (ed.), It's Our Country: Indigenous Arguments for Meaningful Constitutional Recognition and Reform, Melbourne University Press (an imprint of Melbourne University Publishing), Melbourne, Victoria, pp. 104-113.
- Wood, A 2016, 'Is Australia ready to constitutionally recognise indigenous peoples as equals?', in Simon Young, Jennifer Nielsen, Jeremy Patrick (ed.), Constitutional Recognition of First Peoples in Australia-Theories and Comparative Perspectives, The Federation Press, Sydney, pp. 103-128pp.
- Wood, A 2016, 'Some limits on the use of armed force under the Sharia', in Anne Elvey, Deborah Guess, Keith Dyer (ed.), Ecological Aspects of War: Religious and Theological Perspectives, ATF Press, Hindmarsh, pp. 111-137pp.
- Wood, A 2015, 'Indigenous Spiritual Light: Reconsidering the Negative Stereotypes on Indigenous Sprirtuality', in D Iner, S Yucel (ed.), Muslim Identity Formation in Religiously Diverse Societies, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, pp. 266-289.
- Wood, A 2015, 'Law and Native Title', in K Price (ed.), Knowledge of Life: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia, Cambridge University Press, Port Melbourne, Vic, Australia, pp. 39-58.
- Wood, A & Weinman, J 2014, 'Does law constitute identity? Indigenous allegiance and identity in Australia', in Fiona Jenkins, Mark Nolan, Kim Rubenstein (ed.), Allegiance and Identity in a Globalised World, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, pp. 142-165.
- Wood, A 2013, 'Animal Welfare under the Shari'a', Macquarie Law Journal, vol. 11-12, pp. 155-172.
- Wood, A 2013, 'Incorporating Indigenous Cultural Competency through the Broader Law Curriculum', Legal Education Review, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 57-81.
- Wood, A 2013, 'Indigenous studies and the university', in Tony Bennett (ed.), Challenging (the) Humanities, Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd, North Melbourne, pp. 64-78.
- Wood, A 2013, 'Splitting Heirs - Succession between Two Worlds: Australian Law and the Sharia', in Abdullah Saeed and Helen McCue (ed.), Family Law and Australian Muslim Women, Melbourne University Press (an imprint of Melbourne University Publishing), Melbourne, pp. 150-180.
- Wood, A 2012, 'Apostasy in Islam and the Freedom of Religion in International Law', in Paul Babie and Neville Rochow (ed.), Freedom of Religion under Bills of Rights, University of Adelaide Press, Adelaide, Australia, pp. 152-171.
- Wood, A 2012, 'CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM 2013 What are we trying to achieve?', Alternative Law Journal, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 156 - 160.
- Wood, A 2012, 'The position of the Niqab (Face Veil) in Australia under Australian and Islamic Laws', American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 106 - 151.
- Wood, A 2011, 'Law Studies and Indigenous Students' Wellbeing: Closing the (Many) Gap(s)', Legal Education Review, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 251-276.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- National Indigenous Research and Knowledges Network (Secondary Investigator)