Larissa Behrendt is a Eualeyai/Kamillaroi woman. She is the Professor of Law and Director of Research at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology, Sydney. She is admitted to the Supreme Court of the ACT and NSW as a barrister. When she gained her Master of Laws and Senior Doctorate of Jurisprudence she was the first Aboriginal Australian to graduate from Harvard Law School.