Loretta Kelly

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| thesis_title = Stumbling Block to Stepping Stone: Learning from our experience of native title mediation in the development of a process of Aboriginal dispute resolution.

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Loretta Kelly is an Australian Aboriginal law academic, specialising in Aboriginal dispute resolution.

She is of Gumbaynggirr and Dungutti descent and has traditional land at Corindi.{{cite web|url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/ILB/1999/98.html |title=Editors - "Indigenous Women Lawyers: Charmaine Smith; Neva Collings; Dr Irene Watson; Dr Larissa Behrendt; Marie Andrews; Camille Dobson; Barbara Bond; Julie Perkins and Loretta Kelly" [1999] IndigLawB 98; (1999) 4(25) Indigenous Law Bulletin 26 |publisher=Austlii.edu.au |date=1999-11-01 |accessdate=2014-08-14}}

She is currently a senior lecturer at Southern Cross University.{{cite web|url=http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A122463 |title=Loretta Kelly |publisher=Austlit.edu.au |date= |accessdate=2014-08-14}}{{cite web|url=http://scu.edu.au/staffdirectory/person_detail.php?person=9583 |title=Staff Directory |publisher=SCU |date=2012-11-14 |accessdate=2014-08-14}}