Dr Andrew Lynch is the Director of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, Faculty of Law, UNSW and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law. His research in recent years has concentrated on the topics of judicial dissent in the constitutional law decisions of the High Court of Australia, legal responses to terrorism and federalism. 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), as well as journal articles, conference and seminar papers in these and other areas. Additionally Andrew has given evidence to a number of parliamentary and non-government inquiries into Australia’s counter-terrorism legislative scheme and written on public law issues in the media. He teaches Public Law, Federal Constitutional Law and National Security Law and Human Rights.
Research Interests
Federal Constitutional Law, Legal Responses to Terrorism, Judicial Decision-making and Equitable Remedies