Dr Stephen Gray - Researcher Profile

Biography

After completing a law degree at Monash University, Stephen was employed at Charles Darwin (previously Northern Territory) University for fourteen years teaching Criminal Law, Intellectual Property, Indigenous People and the Law and Jurisprudence, amongst other subjects.

In 1998 Stephen completed an LLM on legal avenues for protection of aboriginal art at Melbourne University.

He was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory in April 1990.

Stephen has been involved with various committees and community associations.  He has been a member of the Northern Territory Law Reform Committee since 1994, and was on its Committee on Customary Law from 2002 until it reported in late 2003.

In 2004 he published Criminal Laws Northern Territory and is also the author of the novel The Artist is a Thief (2001).

His current research projects include the 'stolen wages' issue and indigenous people, on which he is currently writing a book.

A selection of Stephen's publications is available on-line at:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=865912

 

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Qualifications

PHD (LAW)

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2008

MASTER OF LAW

Institution: University of Melbourne

Year awarded: 1998

Publications

Books

Gray, S., Blokland, J., 2012, Criminal Laws: Northern Territory, Federation Press, Sydney NSW Australia.

Gray, S., 2011, Brass Discs, Dog Tags and Finger Scanners: the Apology and Aboriginal Protection in the Northern Territory 1863-1972, Charles Darwin University Press, Darwin NT Australia.

Gray, S., 2011, The Protectors: a Journey Through Whitefella Past, Allen & Unwin, Sydney NSW Australia.

Gray, S., 2004, Criminal Laws: Northern Territory, The Federation Press, Annandale NSW Australia.

Book Chapters

Gray, S., 2010, The albino and the storyteller: eugenics and the best of intentions in 1930s Darwin, in Frontier Skirmishes: Literary and Cultural Debates in Australia After 1992, eds Russell West-Pavlov, Jennifer Wawrzinek, Universitatsverlag Winter, Heidelberg, Germany, pp. 295-310.

Journal Articles

Gray, S., 2012, Guilt: Ferdinand von Schirach; Text Publishing, 2012; 208pp; $22.95 (paperback), Alternative Law Journal [P], vol 37, issue 1, Legal Service Bulletin Co-operative Ltd, Clayton Vic Australia, pp. 69-70.

Sedeek, M., Montezano, A.C., Hebert, R.L., Gray, S., Di Marco, E., Jha, J.C., Cooper, M., Jandeleit-Dahm, K.A.M., Schiffrin, E.L., Wilkinson-Berka, J., Touyz, R.M., 2012, Oxidative stress, nox isoforms and complications of diabetes-potential targets for novel therapies, Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research [P], vol 5, issue 4, Springer New York LLC, United States, pp. 509-518.

Gray, S., 2011, 'Far too little flogging': Chinese and the criminal justice system in the Northern Territory, Journal of Northern Territory History [P], vol 2011, issue 22, Historical Society of the Northern Territory, Darwin NT Australia, pp. 1-33.

Gray, S., Royan, N., 2009, The blogger prince and the cultured Mongolian: Sedition prosecutions in the modern Malaysian state, Media and Arts Law Review [P], vol 14, issue 4, LexisNexis Butterworths, Chatswood, NSW, Australia, pp. 455-473.

Gray, S., 2008, Holding the government to account: The'stolen wages' issue, fiduciary duty and trust law, Melbourne University Law Review, vol 32, issue 1, University of Melbourne, Melbourne Victoria, pp. 115-140.

Gray, S., 2008, Slavery and Constitutional Invalidity: Rethinking Kruger and Bray, University of New South Wales Law Journal, vol 31, issue 3, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW, pp. 645-668.

Gray, S., 2007, The Elephant in the Drawing Room: Slavery and the Stolen Wages Debate, Australian Indigenous Law Review, vol 11, issue 1, Indigenous Law Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia, pp. 30-54.

Gray, S., 2006, Law in a lawless town: the development of the criminal justice system in the Northern Territory from 1869 to 1911, Journal of Northern Territory History, vol 17, Historical Society of the Northern Territory, Northern Territory, pp. 1-16.

Gray, S., 2004, Imagination, Fraud and the Cultural Protocols Debate: A question of free speech or pornography?, Media & Arts Law Review, vol 9, issue 3, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne Victoria, pp. 23-37.

Gray, S., 2002, A class act, an omission or a non-event?: criminal responsibilityunder section 31 of the Criminal Code (NT), Criminal Law Journal, vol 26, issue 3, Lawbook Co., Ausralia, pp. 175-188.

Gray, S., 2002, Skeletal principles in Malaysia's common law cupboard: the future of Indigenous native title in Malaysian common law, LAWASIA Journal, vol 2002, The Law Association for Asia and the Pacific, Darwin NT, pp. 99-125.

Other

Gray, S., 2011, A culture condemned, The Australian, News Limited, Surry Hills NSW Australia.

Gray, S., 2007, Submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee 'Inquiry into Stolen Wages', Senate Submission (No. 11, 11th September 2007), Parliament of Australia, Canberra ACT.

Teaching Commitment

Overview of Intellectual Property (LAW7223)

Criminal law and procedure B (LAW3302)

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

A Critical Evaluation of Reforms to National Security Laws & Significance to Constitutionalism.

Supervisors:

Lee, H (Main), Gray, S (Associate).