Ms Chloe D'Souza
2020
Bob Hawke John Monash Scholar
LLM
Law and Domestic Policy
Harvard University
United States of America
Law
energy law, native title law, heritage
Chloe is a proud Wilman Noongar woman who grew up in Perth. She is currently an Adviser to Hon Mark Dreyfus KC, Office of the Attorney-General, Australia
Chloe holds a Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours. Chloe was the first Aboriginal person to graduate from Curtin University’s Law School in 2015, and was admitted to the Supreme Court of WA as a Lawyer in 2017. After practising commercial law with a focus on energy and regulation, Chloe moved into Heritage at BHP to understand how the mining industry can work with communities to protect and prolong Aboriginal heritage sites across tenure. In parallel to her career development, Chloe has actively engaged with organisations across WA on their reconciliation initiatives, to fulfil a personal interest in the role that private organisations can have in advancing social policy. Chloe is interested in the intersection of law and policy relating to reform targeted at improving the social and economic outcomes of Indigenous Australians. With the John Monash Scholarship, Chloe studied a Master of Laws at Harvard University, focusing on human rights and comparative studies.