Andrew Lynch

Professor

LLB (Hons), LLM QUT, PhD UNSW
Director, Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law

Contact details

Room:

329 Law Building

Phone:

9385 9654

E-mail:

a.lynch@unsw.edu.au

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Brief overview

Professor Andrew Lynch is the Director of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law in the Faculty of Law. Andrew’s research concentrates on the topics of judicial dissent in the the High Court of Australia, federal reform and the intersection of public law and legal responses to terrorism. He is an author of Equity and Trusts (2001 and 2005), What Price Security? Taking Stock of Australia’s Anti-Terror Laws (2006) and a co-editor of Law and Liberty in the War on Terror (2007) and Counter-Terrorism and Beyond: The Culture of Law and Justice After 9/11 (2010), as well as an author of journal articles, conference and seminar papers in these and other areas. Additionally Andrew has frequently been called before parliamentary and non-government inquiries to speak to submissions on matters of public law and Australia’s counter-terrorism legislative scheme. He writes regularly on public law issues in the media.

Courses taught

Areas of expertise

Federal Constitutional Law, Federalism, Judicial Dissent, Legal Responses to Terrorism