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15 QUT L. Rev. 1 (2015)

handle is hein.journals/qutlj15 and id is 1 raw text is: QUT Law Review ISSN: (Print) 2205-0507 (Online) 2201-7275 Volume 15, Issue 1, pp 1-2. DOI: 10.5204/qutlr.vl5il.657 GUEST EDITORIAL: WORLD INDIGENOUS LEGAL CONFERENCE 2014 - SPECIAL FORUM MARCELLE BURNS* The World Indigenous Legal Conference 2014 was hosted by the Indigenous Lawyers Association of Queensland, and held at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, from 24-27 June 2014. The conference brought together over 250 delegates from the academy, legal practice, and community and government organisations, representing a diverse range of Indigenous nations from Australia, Aotearoa, the Americas, Pacific Islands, Asia and Africa to discuss issues of importance to the survival of Indigenous peoples worldwide. The conference theme 'Past - Present - Future' was inspired by Indigenous worldviews and conceptions of time as cyclic rather than lineal - with the present encompassing the past - and also holding the potential of the future,1 with the conference seeking to progress a meaningful dialogue about remembering the past and looking to the future. The conference presentations focused on a number of key legal issues of significance to Indigenous peoples including: * Indigenous human rights * Indigenous knowledges and intellectual property * criminal justice * relationships to land * recognition of Indigenous peoples * economic development. This collection of papers from the World Indigenous Legal Conference engages with a number of these conference themes, and particularly focuses on Indigenous human rights. While these papers deal with a diversity of Indigenous peoples, they also serve to highlight the common challenges faced by Indigenous peoples worldwide with issues of identity, recognition within nation states, discrimination, and historical and continuing genocide recurring threats to the survival of Indigenous peoples, knowledges and law into the future. These struggles are becoming increasingly urgent given the dire ecological crisis facing the global community, and the importance of Indigenous knowledge and law to caring for country and restoring harmony and balance in the relationships between all living things. As will become apparent however it is difficult to isolate the subject matter of these papers into discrete topics as the issues they explore are inter-connected, demonstrating the hegemony of state-dominated legal systems and their discriminatory and assimilationist impacts on first peoples. These papers also bring home * Marcelle Burns, BA/LLB (Hons) (Southern Cross University), GDLP (College of Law), Predoctoral Fellow, School of Law, University of New England (Formerly Lecturer, School of Law, Queensland University of Technology), Conference Committee Member, World Indigenous Legal Conference 2014. ' Irene Watson, Aboriginal Peoples, Colonialism and International Law (Routledge, 2014), 16 - see book review in this issue.

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