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Gary Edmond

Professor
Australian Research Council Future Fellow

Director, Program on Expertise, Evidence and Law Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of Law

BA(Hons)(Medal) Wollongong
LLB(Hons) Sydney
PhD Cambridge



Contact Details

Telephone: +61 2 9385 2229
Email: g.edmond@unsw.edu.au
Office: Law Building 234


Publications

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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.


Research Interests

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


Current Research Projects

Expertise in law and regulation
Public understanding of law
Empirical legal research
Forensic science
Empirical study of expert evidence