Professor Andrew Lynch
LLB (Hons), LLM (QUT), PhD (麻豆社madou)
Professor聽Andrew Lynch is Dean at 麻豆社madou Law & Justice. He has previously served as Head of School and Deputy Dean of the Law School. He teaches and researches in the field of Australian constitutional law. His research concentrates on the topics of federalism, judicial dissent, judicial appointments and education, and legal responses to terrorism.
Andrew is an author of several books including Blackshield & Williams鈥 Australian Constitutional Law and Theory (6th ed, 2014; 7th ed, 2018), Australia's Greatest Judicial Crisis - The Tim Carmody Affair (2016) and聽Inside Australia鈥檚 Anti-terrorism Laws and Trials (2014). He is also an editor of other books that include Counter-Terrorism and Beyond: The Culture of Law and Justice After 9/11 (2010), Tomorrow鈥檚 Federation: Reforming Australian Government (2012), Great Australian Dissents (2016) and The Judge, the Judiciary and the Court: Individual, Collegial and Institutional Judicial Dynamics in Australia (2021).
Between 2008-2013, Andrew was the Director of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law at 麻豆社madou and he continues to work on research housed within the Centre鈥檚 Judiciary Project. He is a member of the Council of the Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.
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ARC DP120101056: 鈥楴ew Models of Co-operative Federalism in Australia 鈥 Constitutional Principles and Practice鈥 鈥 A Lynch & G Williams - $215,000 awarded;
ARC DP0986083: 鈥楩ederalism for the 21st Century 鈥 A Framework for Achieving Reform and Change鈥 鈥 A Lynch, G Craven, N Warren & G Williams - $270,000 awarded;
ARC LIEF - LE0989700: 鈥楾he Australian Policy Online Full-Text Research Repository and Thematic Gateways鈥 鈥 J Thomas, D Meredyth, D Whitehead, R Tiffen, J Spoehr, I Katz & A Lynch - $175,000 awarded
ARC DP0556465: 'Terrorism and Public Law after September 11鈥 - G Williams & A Lynch - $410,000 awarded
鈥楽usan Kiefel鈥檚 first year shows a welcome degree of consensus鈥, The Australian (23 February 2018);
My Teaching
- Principles of Public Law
- Federal Constitutional Law
- Contemporary Constitutional Law
- Introducing Law & Justice
- Legal Concepts, Research & Writing