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Our people

Meet our exceptional and remarkable scholars

Our staff are acclaimed legal educators, world-renowned researchers and venerated practitioners. We also attract the involvement of prominent international scholars and leaders in the judiciary and government.

School leadership

Rita Shackel

Professor Rita Shackel

Interim Head of School and Dean / Professor of Law and Ethics

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Contact:  law.deanEA@sydney.edu.au

Jason Harris

Professor Jason Harris

Interim Deputy Head of School and Dean

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Associate Deans 

Directors

Program Directors

Emeritus professors

  • Patricia Apps MED (Yale) PhD (Camb)
  • Hilary Astor BTech (Law) PhD Brunel
  • Ben Boer LLB BA (Hons) LLM Melbourne
  • Peter Butt BA LLM LLD Sydney
  • Terry Carney AO LLB (Hons) Dip Crim Melbourne PhD Monash
  • John Carter BA LLB Sydney PhD Camb
  • Graeme Cooper BA LLB LLM DipJur (Sydney) LLM (Ill) LLM JSD (Col)
  • Reg Graycar LLB (Hons) Adelaide LLM Harvard
  • Jennifer Hill BA LLB (Hons) Sydney BCL Oxford
  • Helen Irving BA (Hons) Melbourne MPhil Camb LLB (Hons) PhD Sydney 
  • Gail Mason LLB (UQ) DipCrim (Melbourne) MA (SUNJ) PhD (La Trobe)
  • Ron McCallum AO, BJuris LLB (Hons) Monash LLM UQ
  • Barbara McDonald, BA LLB Sydney LLM Lond
  • Colin Phegan BA LLB LLM Sydney LLM Mich
  • Joellen Riley Munton BA MA LLB  Sydney BCL Oxford PhD Sydney
  • The Hon Justice Elisabeth Peden BA (first class Hons) LLB (first class Hons and University Medal) (Sydney) PhD (Cantab)
  • Simon Rice, BA (UNSW) LLB (UNSW) MEd (UNSW) OAM
  • Gillian Triggs LLB Melbourne LLM SMU PhD Melbourne
  • Anne Twomey BA LLB (Hons) Melbourne LLM ANU PhD UNSW
  • Richard Vann BA (Hons) LLB (Hons) (UQ) BCL (Oxf)
  • David Weisbrot AM, BA (Hons) Queens NY JD UCLA

Challis lecturers

  • The Hon Chief Justice James Allsop AO, BA LLB Sydney, Challis Lecturer in Maritime Law
  • The Hon Robert Austin BA LLM Sydney DPhil Oxon, Challis Lecturer in Corporate Law
  • The Hon Justice Mark Leeming SC, BA LLB PhD Sydney, Challis Lecturer in Equity

Honorary titles

  • Ross Anderson, LLB (Hons) (Sydney) LLM (Lond), Honorary Senior Lecturer
  • Her Excellency The Honourable Justice Margaret Beazley AC KC
  • Peter Cane, Honorary Professor
  • Duncan Chappell BA LLB (Hons) UTAS PhD Camb, Honorary Professor
  • Jennifer Corrin, Honorary Professor
  • Michael Davis, BA La Trobe PhD UTS, Honorary Research Fellow
  • Brent Fisse, Honorary Professor
  • Kate Harrison Brennan, Honorary Associate
  • Richard Johnstone, Honorary Professor
  • Jane Stapleton, Honorary Professor

Adjuncts

  • Andrew Bell SC, BA LLB Sydney PhD, Adjunct Professor
  • The Hon Joseph C Campbell KC, FAAL, BA (Hons) LLB (Hons) Sydney, Adjunct Professor
  • Peter Chiam, Adjunct Lecturer
  • Rebecca Connolly LLB (Hons) LLM PhD Syd., Adjunct Senior Lecturer
  • Nicholas Cowdery, Adjunct Professor
  • Thomas Crofts, Adjunct Professor
  • Richard Fisher, Adjunct Professor
  • Michael Gvozdenovic, BEc Sydney LLB (Hons) Sydney LLM (Columbia), Adjunct Senior Lecturer
  • Nicholas Lennings, Adjunct Senior Lecturer
  • Jack Pembroke-Birss, BSc LLB Macquarie, Adjunct Senior Lecturer
  • Alison Pert, LLB Manc LLM Lond PhD Sydney, Adjunct Associate Professor
  • Lindsay Powers, Adjunct Associate Professor
  • Amelia Simpson, BA ANU, LLB ANU, LLM Columbia, JSD Columbia, Adjunct Associate Professor
  • Roy Williams, Adjunct Senior Lecturer
  • Leon Wolff, Adjunct Associate Professor

Research Affiliates

  • Tony Bogdanoski, Research Affiliate
  • Katherine Bones, Research Affiliate
  • Timothy Bowley, Research Affiliate
  • Frank Decker, MSc PhD in Physics Berlin MAppFin Macquarie PhD Bremen, Research Affiliate
  • Neil Francey, Research Affiliate
  • Belinda Jane Newton, Research Affiliate
  • Peter Prince, Research Affiliate
  • Nobumichi Teramura, Research Affiliate