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8 Indigenous L. Bull. 26 (2012-2017)
Human Rights & Human Wrongs: A Life Confronting Racism

handle is hein.journals/indibull8 and id is 890 raw text is: & A Life Confronting Racism Monash University Publishing, 2015 Book Review by Robert Orr ColinTatz is currentlyVisiting Professor in Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University ('ANU'). He has played a major role in researching, writing, and teaching in relation to Aboriginal Australians, and racism more generally.This fascinating autobiography traces his life journey in the pursuit of answers to some of the hardest questions concerning law and racism. I met Colin Tatz when I was a very part-time Masters student at the ANU, desperately seeking a convenient course to undertake. I found one with the principal title of'International Criminal Law' It was only as I began the usually arduous task of reading the set materials that I noted the secondary title, 'Genocide and the Law' But even this did not reveal the full breadth of the course. Taught by Colin, the readings and lectures began with the definition of genocide in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948), but from there sought to investigate 26 1 INDIGENOUS LAW BULLETIN November/ December, Volume B, Issue 27 and understand those horrific and central events of the 20th century, which now take that name, in Turkey, Germany and Europe, Cambodia, Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia and elsewhere. Colin's course focussed on the role of law in causing and preventing acts of genocide, but searched much more broadly into other disciplines to explain them. As he notes in the book, perhaps the hardest question is, 'how is genocide humanly possible'?' Importantly, Colin added the treatment of Australia's Indigenous peoples to the discussion. In the course, Colin clearly demonstrated his immense understanding of and insight into the subject, approaching this task, as he says early in the book, with passion, rather than simply with knowledge.2 He was a very gifted teacher. This course prompted me to read much more widely in this area, including, when I noticed it, Colin's autobiography. This provided a much deeper understanding of his life than was glimpsed at in

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