FORA.tv Speaker - Larissa Behrendt

Larissa Behrendt is Professor of Law and Director of Research at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology in Sydney. She is a also a practicing barrister who has previously worked with the United Nations.

She is an author of several books on Indigenous legal issues and in 2005 she won the Commonwealth Writer's Prize for her novel, Home. She was recently named 2009 NAIDOC Person of the Year.