Bede Harris

Bede Harris has a BA(Mod) from Trinity College, University of Dublin, an LLB (cum laude) from Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, and a DPhil from the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand. He has previously taught at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg; the University of Waikato; James Cook University and the University of Canberra. Bede's areas of research are Constitutional Law (particularly constitutional reform), Indigenous legal issues, Corporations Law and...See more

Bede Harris has a BA(Mod) from Trinity College, University of Dublin, an LLB (cum laude) from Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, and a DPhil from the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand. He has previously taught at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg; the University of Waikato; James Cook University and the University of Canberra. Bede's areas of research are Constitutional Law (particularly constitutional reform), Indigenous legal issues, Corporations Law and Consumer Law. In 2001 Bede was awarded a Fulbright Senior Fellowship and attended the American Studies Institute held at the Meyner Centre for the Study of Government at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, where teachers of Constitutional Law from a variety of jurisdictions studied US constitutional law, before travelling in the south-west of the United States to study native American self-government. See less