Our visitors

Elizabeth Evatt Distinguished Fellows are chosen from a selection of particularly meritorious Spender applications. They are appointed by invitation from the Dean on the recommendation of the Law School's Research Committee.

2025

Professor Paula Giliker (UK)

• Professor in Comparative Law, University of Bristol Law School

Professor Lindsay Farmer (UK)

• Professor of Law, University of Glasgow School of Law

2024

Professor Harpreet Kaur (India)

• Vice-Chancellor, National Law University, Jodhpur

Professor Lincoln Davies (USA)

• Executive Director for Energy, Resource, and Environment Programs, The University of Utah
  
• Co-Director, Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources, and the Environment, The University of Utah
• Dean & Frank R. Strong Chair in Law, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law (2019 - 2024)

The Sir Percy Spender Visiting Fellowship was developed to recognise and support professors with an established record and international standing who wish to make a genuine contribution to the research environment at Sydney Law School.

2025

Professor Sue Farran (UK)

• Professor of Comparative and Plural Laws, Newcastle University 

Professor Lorand Bartels (UK)

• Professor of International Law, University of Cambridge

Professor Ernest Lim (Singapore)

• Professor and Vice Dean, National University of Singapore

Professor Emeritus Alessandro Ferrara (Italy)

• Professor Emeritus of Political Philosophy, University of Rome Tor Vergata and Adjunct Professor of Legal Theory at Luiss University Rome

2024

Professor Carlos Bernal (USA)

• Professor of Law, University of Dayton
• Commissioner, Inter-American Human Rights Commission

Professor Elisa Hoven (Germany)

• Professorship of German and Foreign Criminal Law, Criminal Procedural Law, Economic Criminal Law and Media Criminal Law, Leipzig University

2023

Professor Jane C. Ginsburg (USA)

• Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law at Columbia University School of Law, and Faculty Co-Director of its Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts. 
• Professor Jane Ginsburg the inaugural Sir Percy Spender Fellow

The Sir Percy Spender/ADM+S Visiting Fellowship is sponsored by the Sydney node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S).

2024

Professor Leonardo Netto Parentoni (Brazil)

• Professor of Law, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)

2023

Professor Damiano Canale (Italy)

• Professor in the Department of Law, Bocconi University

The George Flannery Visiting Fellowship was developed to recognise and support outstanding Early to Mid-Career Researchers who wish to visit and collaborate with the University of Sydney Law School. 

2025

Dr Tibisay Morgandi (UK)

• Associate Professor in International Energy and Natural Resources Law, Queen Mary University of London

Dr Can Eken (UK)

• Assistant Professor in Commercial Law, Durham University

Dr David Jefferson (NZ)

• Senior Lecturer Above the Bar, University of Canterbury

Dr Giulia Schneider (Italy)

• Researcher and Lecturer in Economic Law, Catholic University of Milan

2024

Dr Jeevan Hariharan (UK)

• Lecturer in Private Law, Queen Mary University of London 

Associate Professor Michelle Lim (Singapore)

• Associate Professor of Law, Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University

Dr Lucas Clover Alcolea (New Zealand)

• Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Otago

Dr Senthorun Raj (UK)

• Reader in Human Rights Law and Postgraduate Research Lead at Manchester Law School, Manchester Metropolitan University
• Chair of Amnesty International UK
• Human Rights leader returns to Sydney Law School as visiting fellow

Dr Sharon Munedzi (South Africa)

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, North-West University
• Expertise in Mercantile Law, Banking Law, and Financial Markets Law

2023

Associate Professor Ashwini Vasanthakumar (Canada)

• Associate Professor and Queen's National Scholar in Legal and Political Philosophy, Queen's Law School
• Inaugural George Flannery Visiting Fellow leaves her mark
• Just Cause podcast: Injustice, in Theory

Associate Professor Kimihiro Hino (Japan)

• Associate Professor, Department of Urban Engineering at the University of Tokyo
• Advisor for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and the Fukuoka Prefectural Police
• Research expertise includes Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED)

Professor Alexander Bröstl (Slovak Republic)

• Professor of Legal Theory/Jurisprudence, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice
• 13 May 2024 – 14 June 2024 

Professor Anna Chapman (Australia)

• Professor, The University of Melbourne
• 19 November 2024 – 29 November 2024 

Matthew Chippin (UK)

• PhD student, University of Leeds
• 25 October 2024 – 8 November 2024

Professor Andrew Dickinson (UK)

• Professor of the Conflict of Laws, University of Oxford
• 5 February 2024 – 28 February 2024

Professor Ozan Erözden (Türkiye)

• Professor of Legal Theory, Kadir Has University
• 8 April 2024 – 19 April 2024

Professor Guillermo Estrada (Mexico)

• Professor of Public International Law, Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, Universidad Nacional Autóno de México (UNAM)
• 29 October 2024 – 20 December 2024

Associate Professor Eric Ghosh (Australia)

• Associate Professor, The University of New England
• 20 March 2024 – 14 June 2024 

Professor Özlem Gürses (UK)

• Professor of Commercial Law, King’s College London
• 25 July 2024 – 23 August 2024 

Bulelani Jili (USA)

• Meta Research PhD fellow, Harvard University 
• 2 August 2024 – 17 August 2024 

Dr Yixian Li (China)

• Lecturer and researcher, Yunnan University
• 10 March 2023 – 24 February 2024 

Emma Miquel (France)

• PhD candidate, Polytechnic University of Hauts de France (UPHF) funded by the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Lille
• 1 May 2024 – 31 July 2024  

Dr Irene Pollastro (Italy)

• Lecturer and Research Fellow, Turin University
• 4 March 2024 – 16 March 2024  

Dr Brandon Stewart (Australia)

• Lecturer, The University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
• 9 September 2024 – 20 December 2024

Associate Professor Edith I Tzu Su (Taiwan)

• Associate Professor, National Chunghsing University
• 26 August 2024 – 13 September 2024

Professor Masayuki Tamaruya (Japan)

• Professor of Legal Theory, The University of Tokyo  
• 18 March 2024 – 22 March 2024 

Justice Edilson Vitorelli (Brazil)

• Federal Circuit Judge at the Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit in Brazil 
• Adjunct Professor, Federal University of Minas Gerais Law School (UFMG)
• 31 July 2024 – 16 August 2024

Professor Michael Welch (USA)

• Professor in Criminal Justice, Rutgers University
• 11 June 2024 – 31 October 2024

Helge Wieggrefe (Germany)

• PhD candidate, University of 

Dr Tim Bowley (Australia)

• Member of the Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies, Monash University
• Consultant, Johnson Winter Slattery
• Parsons Centre Research Affiliate for 2024-2025

Michael Murray (Australia)

• Insolvency law author and commentator
• Parsons Centre Research Affiliate for 2024-2025

Associate Professor Andy Schmulow (Australia)

• Associate Professor of Law, University of Wollongong
• Parsons Centre Research Affiliate for 2024

Professor Mark Dawson (Germany)

• Professor of EU Law and Governance, Hertie School in Berlin
  

Mr Michele Di Vita (Italy)

• PhD student in renewable energy law, IUSS Pavia

Associate Professor Shohei Eto (Japan)

• Associate Professor of Law, Hitotsubashi University

Dr Yarran Hominh (USA)

• Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Bard College

Mr Heikki Jaatinen (Finland)

• Doctoral Researcher, University of Turku

Associate Professor Jorge Feliu Rey (Spain)

• Associate Professor, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Dr Meng Jin (China)

• Associate Professor, East China University of Political Science and Law
  

Dr Yixian Li (China)

• Lecturer, Yunnan University

Professor Alex Mills (UK)

• Professor of Public and Private International Law, University College London

Professor Kuei-Jung Ni (Taiwan)

• Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Trans-Pacific Partnership and Transnational Trade Laws, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Dr Sirja-Leena Penttinen (Finland)

• Senior Lecturer at UEF Law School 
• Legal Advisor to the Energy Authority, Finland

Associate Professor Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell (Spain)

• Associate Professor of Commercial Law, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. 

Associate Professor Vivek Sehrawat (India)

• Associate Professor, Mahindra University

Professor Gerry Simpson (UK)

• Professor of Public International Law, LSE Law School

Professor Kim Talus (Finland) 

• Professor of European Energy Law, UEF Law School (University of Eastern Finland)
• Founder and co-director of UEF's Center for Climate, Energy and Environmental Law (CCEEL)

Professor Pierre Thielbörger (Germany) 

• Professor of Public International Law and Executive Director of the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV)

Professor Kimberley Trapp (UK)

• Professor of Public International Law, University College London

The Australian Network for Japanese Law (ANJeL) has partnered with the Supreme Court of Japan's Overseas Training and Research Program for Japanese Judges and court officials since 2002. The program enables Judges from Japan to experience life in a jurisdiction outside Japan for a twelve-month period and provides them with a valuable opportunity to study Australian law courses, access University resources, and undertake research and training activities, including visits to courts and meetings with court personnel.

2024-2025

Judge Hirofumi Higashi

• Civil Division of the Sendai District Court, Miyagi

2023-2024

Judge Kohei Sasaki

• Yamagata District and Family Court 
  

2022-2023

Judge Saori Miyazaki

• Takasaki Branch of Maebashi District Court, Takasaki Branch of Gunma Family Court and Takasaki Summ