GEORGINA STEVENS graduated from Law and Japanese Studies at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia in 2000 and was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Western Australia in 2002. A member of the Editorial Board of the Asia Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law in 1999 and 2000, she completed her articled clerkship in the area of insurance law, and went on to complete a Master's in International Law at the Graduate School of Law, Hokkaido University, Japan in 2005. There her research focused on Indigenous rights and the Ainu of Japan in particular. She has also worked as a volunteer and intern at the Tokyo and Geneva offices of the UN ECOSOC accredited non-governmental organization International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism, and is an active member of their Project on Multiple Discrimination Against Minority Women in Japan. Georgina has published a number of articles on legal developments concerning the Ainu, including "The Ainu and Human Rights; Domestic and International Legal Protections" (2001) 2:2 Asia Pac. J. H.R. & L. 110; "The Perspectives of Minority Women into Policy and into Society" (2003) Connect, Special Issue; and "More than Paper: Protecting Ainu Culture and Influencing Japanese Dam Development" (2005) 28:4 Cultural Survival Quarterly 44.