Is there a way to use your legal skills for social justice? Can lawyers be part of movements that generate systemic change? In this episode, LLB IV student Julia Jacobson interviews Teela Reid, a Wiradjuri and Wailwan woman and one of the founders of the rebellious lawyering movement in Australia. Together they discuss the three pillars of rebellious lawyers: lawyering, storytelling and activism.
Teela Reid is a Wiradjuri and Wailwan woman, a rebellious Lawyer, storyteller and essayists. Teela is currently a Senior Solicitor in Aboriginal Land Rights litigation and in 2022 was appointed the inaugural First Nations Lawyer in residence at The University of Sydney Law School. She has previously worked as a working group leader on section 51(xxvi) Race Power, the Constitutional Dialogue process culminating in the Uluru Statement from the Heart, organising Australia’s inaugural Rebellious Lawyers Conference in 2021 and the design of the NSW Walama Court proposal.