Bryan Keon-Cohen QC was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, graduated in Law/Arts at Melbourne University, taught at the Monash Law School, worked with the ALRC, and has practised at the Victorian Bar for 30 years. He was junior counsel in the Mabo cases 1982–92 and has appeared in many Federal Court and High Court constitutional and native title cases. He has lectured and published widely on native title and is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Monash University Law School.