Simon is a Professor of Law and Justice and Deputy Director of the Centre for Heritage and Culture at the University of Southern Queensland; and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia. Specialising in public law and First Nations law and policy, and having published several books in these fields, provides expert advice to government, non-government and law reform bodies in Australia and Canada, and collaborates widely with First Nations colleagues and communities in the fields of law and legal education.
Simon’s Fulbright research at the University of Wisconsin’s Global Legal Studies Center and Great Lakes Indigenous Law Center will involve a comparative examination of First Nations’ water rights – seeking new insights on how law and policy can best support First Nations’ economic and management participation in this important context. He will be working with leading U.S. scholars, learning and building collaborations for the future in both substantive law and legal education.