Gary Edmond

Professor

BA(Hons)(Medal) Wollongong, LLB(Hons) Sydney, PhD Cambridge
Australian Research Council Future Fellow
Director, Program on Expertise, Evidence and Law Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of Law

Contact details

Room:

234 Law Building

Phone:

9385 2229

E-mail:

g.edmond@unsw.edu.au

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Brief overview

Gary has published on law and science, expert evidence, and the public understanding of science in journals dedicated to law, sociology, and science studies. His research interests, spanning the Anglo-American world, are primarily focused on the evidentiary and procedural dimensions of expert evidence, particularly admissibility issues and the forensic sciences.

He is a member of the Australian and New Zealand Forensic Science Society, the Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science, the Society for the Social Study of Science (US) and sits on the Council of the Australian Academy of Forensic Sciences. He is currently engaged in an ARC-funded empirical study of expert evidence in Australia, and is actively engaged in interdisciplinary research with forensic scientists, experimental psychologists, theorists and practitioners.

Areas of expertise

Expert evidence, forensic science, Law and science, Law and society, Sociology of scientific knowledge, Public understanding of law, Empirical legal studies.