The University of Sydney Law School

Ross was appointed to the position of Lecturer in 2012, having previously worked at the University of Sydney Law School in other capacities. In 2010, he completed the Bachelor of Civil Law programme at the University of Oxford. Before travelling to England, he worked as an associate to the Hon Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG of the High Court of Australia and as a Research Assistant at the Victorian Law Reform Commission.

Ross is currently undertaking research for a PhD thesis addressing various matters relating to the work of the High Court of Australia in the field of criminal justice.

Margaret Allars is a professor in the University of Sydney Law School. She is the author of Introduction to Australian Administrative Law (Butterworths, Sydney, 1990), Administrative Law: Cases and Commentary (Butterworths, Sydney, 1997) and many articles and book chapters, the Administrative Law Title in Halsbury's Laws of Australia.

In 1993 she was appointed by the federal government in Australia to chair the Inquiry into the Use of Pituitary Derived Hormones in Australia and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, which reported in 1994. During 1995-96 she was chair of the National Pituitary Hormones Advisory Council and during 1997 she was Acting Head of the Department of Law. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and a member of the Rules Committee of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal in New South Wales.

She teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Administrative Law, Constitutional Law and the postgraduate course Government Regulation, Health Policy and Ethics in the Master of Health Law degree. She is coordinator of the Master of Administrative Law and Policy degree which commenced in the Sydney Law School in 1996.

BEc (Hons) LLB (Hons) PhD (Sydney) Grad Dip (Sydney)

Patricia Apps is a Professor Emerita of Public Economics, The University of Sydney Law School, Adjunct Professor, ANU and UTS, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, and Research Fellow of the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Germany. Her research covers a wide range of areas in Public Economics. She has undertaken extensive analysis of the effects of tax policy on household labour supply, saving and fertitility decisions, and has been a major contributor to the new literature on the economics of the household. Her publications have appeared in leading international journals including the American Economic Review and Journal of Political Economy. She is joint author of Public Economics and the Household, (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Elisa is a leading scholar of constitutional identity. She works in the field of public law, focusing in particular on questions of inclusion and exclusion under the Constitution.

Elisa is currently engaged in a 3 year project on claims on belonging in Australian law and history (with Helen Irving and Rayner Thwaites) and is writing a sole-authored monograph on Constitutional Identities.

Elisa is a member of the Management Board for CERIDAP:https://ceridap.eu/en/ceridap-english/, an outgoing convenor of the International Association of Constitutional Law Research Group on Membership and Exclusion under Constitutions, a former Executive Council member of the Australian Association of Constitutional Law and former Editor of the Sydney Law Review.

Elisa joined the University of Sydney Law School in 2012, prior to which she was lecturer in law at the University of Wollongong and associate to the Honourable Justice Michael Kirby, High Court of Australia.

BA (Italian with Distinction) Wollongong LLB (Hons I) Wollongong GradDipLegPrac College of Law PhD Sydney FAAL

Hussein Badreddine is a Lecturer at the University of Sydney Law School, where he teaches and researches in the areas of public international law, space law, international humanitarian law and corporations law.

For over a decade, Irene Baghoomians has worked in the areas of public interest and human rights litigation, policy and research. She graduated from law school in 1994 and has worked at the Australian Law Reform Commission, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and prior to her departure for New York was a legal policy advisor at the Race Discrimination Unit of HREOC (1998-2000). In New York, she studied for an LLM in Columbia University Law School (2000- 2001) and was designated as a human rights fellow and upon graduation was granted a second human rights fellowship which she spent at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) - a non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the rights enshrined in the US Constitution and the UDHR. At CCR, she worked on human rights cases litigated under the Alien Torts Claims Act and civil rights statutes including Guantanamo Bay detainees cases until her return to Australia in 2004. She is currently a lecturer at the University of Sydney Law School and is the coordinator of the clinical legal education program.

Professor Bath's teaching and research interests are in international business and economic law, private international law and Chinese law. She has first class honours in Chinese and in law from the Australian National University, and an LLM from Harvard Law School. She has also studied in China and Germany. Professor Bath has extensive professional experience in Sydney, New York and Hong Kong, specialising in international commercial law, with a focus on foreign investment and commercial transactions in China and the Asian region. Representative publications include: Bath and Moens, Law of International Business in Australasia, 2nd ed, Federation Press 2019; Bath, V, Overlapping Jurisdiction and the Resolution of Disputes before Chinese and Foreign Courts, (2015-2016) 17 Yearbook of International Private Law 111-150 and Bath V, China’s Role in the Development of International Investment Law – from Bystander to Participant (2020) 15 Asian Journal of WTO and International Health Law 359. Professor Bath speaks Chinese (mandarin) and German.

Lic. Law, Lic. Pol.Sc. (Santiago de Compostela), LL.M. (CoE, Brugge), LL.M. (NYU), M.A. Int’l.Rel. (Diplom. Sch. Madrid), Ph.D. Law (Sydney)

José-Miguel [pronunciation here] BELLO y VILLARINO [joint surname] is a Senior Research Fellow at the Law School and an Australian Research Council Early Career Industry Fellow 2025-2027,affiliated with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) and The University of Sydney Centre for AI, trust and governance. At the University of Sydney he is the Director of Research Engagement for the Law School and co-teaches the advanced course of Law and Technology (LAWS5218) and an interdisciplinary course for Dalyell Scholars at the Faculty of Engineering (ENGD3004). He is also a member of the Diplomatic Corps of Spain (on leave) and previously worked in different capacities for the European Union. His ARC fellowship, in partnership with the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption, aims to provide a governance framework for the use of AI and automation for anticorruption purposes in the public sector, especially targeting systemic corruption. He has been a visiting researcher at the European University Institute School of Transnational Governance (2024), the University of Santiago de Compostela Faculty of Law (2024) and Harvard Law School (Fulbright-Schuman scholar 2021).

His current research focuses on regulatory approaches to ADM and Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially on how to deal with risks derived from the operation of AI systems from a comparative approach and the interoperability of these regulations. More narrowly, he is especially interested in the governance of the use of automation in the public sector and in education. His work on AI regulation and on anticorruption has received the Rita and John Cornforth Medal for Research Excellence at the University of Sydney, for outstanding achievement in research (2023) and the Scotiabank Global AI + Regulation Emerging Scholar Award (joint award, 2022). 

His broader academic work covers many areas of international law and legal theory, dealing mainly with finding feasible solutions to current or anticipated legal problems. He often approaches these questions favoring interdisciplinary lenses, understanding the law as a continuum between the public and private spheres. He is especially interested in problems based on his experience in the international arena, often identifying issues that could be better addressed with alternative regulatory approaches. Recent publications cover issues as diverse as corruption and SDGs, human rights and artificial intelligence, women in anticorruption treaties, standardisation of AI, golden passports, international trade agreements, economic analysis of human rights, investor-state disputes, corruption-related data, regulatory competition, space research and gender and the law.

In 2025-2026 he co-chairs the International Economic Law Interest Group of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law ("ANZSIL"). He has previously worked for the Commission and the Council of the EU and served in diplomatic postings in Eastern Europe, West Africa, South-East Asia and Central America and at the HQs in Madrid. His last position before moving to Sydney was Deputy Head of Mission in Islamabad.

BA (Harvard) JD (Penn) LLM (Hons) (Sydney) PhD (Macquarie)

Celeste teaches and researches in the areas of Income Tax Law, International Tax Law, State Taxes, Commercial Law and Tax Administration. Celeste's research is focussed on tax issues related to climate law and policy, in particular offset markets, and also spans tax issues connected with the distinctions between land, fixtures and eqipment, the characterisation of gig workers for tax purposes and withholding tax and royalties. She completed her PhD on the domestic and international tax implications of carbon trading transactions.

Lynsey teaches and researches in constitutional and public law. Her areas of research interest span constitutional and administrative law and include Australian constitutional, political and institutional history, constitutional theory and the role of institutions in protecting and enhancing individual, social and political wellbeing. Prior to joining Sydney Law School, she was a postdoctoral fellow with the ARC Laureate Program in Comparative Constitutional Law at Melbourne Law School. She has also taught administrative and constitutional law at the University of New South Wales, where she completed her PhD. Lynsey has wide experience in a range of legal policy roles, including working for the New South Wales Department of Premier and Cabinet, the New South Wales Parliamentary Library Research Service and the New South Wales Law Reform Commission.

LLB BA (Hons) LLM (Melbourne)

Ben Boer has been at the University of Sydney since 1992. He was appointed Emeritus Professor in 2008. Formerly, Ben was Professor in Environmental Law, University of Sydney (1997-2008) and held a sponsored chair as Corrs Chambers Westgarth Professor of Environmental Law, University of Sydney (1992-1996). Prior to that, at Macquarie University, he was Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor, School of Law (1979-1991) and part-time Lecturer in the Graduate School of the Environment. From 1974-1979, he was Lecturer, Department of Legal Studies, La Trobe University.

Between 2006 and 2008, he was the international Co-Director of the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Academy of Environmental Law and Visiting Professor based at the University of Ottawa. From 2011 to 2021 he was National Distinguished Professor at Wuhan University Law School in Hubei Province China, in its Research Institute of Environmental Law.  

He was Deputy Chair of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law from 2012 to 2016. He became a member of the Australian Academy of Law in 2016. He continues to be a member of the International Council of Environmental Law, based in Geneva.

Together with colleagues at the University of Sydney, the Australian National University and the University of Adelaide, he founded of the Australian Centre for Environmental Law; at the University of Sydney Law School this body is now called the Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law.

In 2011 He was granted an award ‘in recognition of exceptional contribution to environmental law’ by the Law Council of Australia and the New Zealand Law Foundation Visiting Fellowship in 2011. He won the Senior Scholarship Award of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law in 2014.

Ben has served as a consultant to various intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations and foreign aid agencies in the following countries: China, Federated States of Micronesia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Myanmar, Nepal, New Caledonia, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago, and Vietnam, as well as conducting research for various departments of the Australian Federal Government.

Ben publishes widely in the area of environmental law, heritage law and human rights law. See "Research Outputs" tab for a full list of publications.

BA LLB Grad Dip (W'gong) LLM (High Hons) (Calif.) PhD (UTS)

Dr Adam Booker

Dr Adam Booker is a Lecturer at the University of Sydney Law School and Deputy Director of the Institute of Criminology. His research focuses on criminal law, criminal procedure, policing, evidence, and the administration of justice, with particular interests in, procedural reform, risk, and pragmatism in criminal justice. Adam teaches in criminal law, criminal procedure, policing, and the legal profession. His recent work appears in Current Issues in Criminal Justice, The UNSW Law Journal and The International Journal of Evidence & Proof. Adam also has experience working as a lawyer for the Aboriginal Legal Service in far western NSW, as well as prosecuting for the ODPP in Sydney. In 2017 he was called to the NSW Bar, practicing from Sir Owen Dixon Chambers. His practice identity is largely founded in criminal law and appeal work, appearing across a broad range of matters. Much of his advocacy work is accessible on NSW Caselaw. Adam is also currently a statutorily appointed Member of the NSW Mental Health Review Tribunal, where he sits as a legal member, and an accredited mediator under the National Mediator Accreditation System.

Louise's research is primarily focused on the legal regulation of border control and policing. Louise researches the exercise and regulation of coercive legal powers by both state and private actors in low visibility settings including immigration detention and street-based policing. Louise has particular expertise in the interplay between criminal and immigration law systems within Australia. Louise also undertakes research on the embedding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ knowledges and legal perspectives in the curriculum of professional legal education.

Louise is committed to teaching compulsory law subjects in part because of their potential to transform student thinking on core legal issues and established an elective to enable students to delve further into the relation between race, racism, and the law.

LLB (Bristol) LLM (Camb)

Professor Bronitt joined Sydney Law School in 2019 as Head and Dean (2019-2024). Over the past three decades, Professor Bronitt published widely, ranging across criminal law and criminal justice, gender violence, policing and terrorism law, and corruption. Recent publications include Federal Proceeds of Crime Law (Thomson Reuters, 2023), Law in Context (5th ed, Federation Press, 2023), Rape Law in Context (Federation Press, 2018), and Principles of Criminal Law (4th ed, Thomson Reuters, 2017). In 2021, he was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.

For complete list of publications:orcid.org/0000-0003-0714-0156

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BA (Hons) (Melb), LLB (Hons) (Melb), BCL (Oxon), PhD (Cantab)

Professor Chester Brown SC is Professor of International Law and International Arbitration at the University of Sydney Law School.  He is also a Barrister (Senior Counsel) at 7 Wentworth Selborne Chambers, Sydney, and an Overseas Member of Essex Court Chambers, London. He teaches and researches in the fields of public international law, international dispute settlement, international arbitration, international investment law, and private international law. He also maintains a practice in these fields, and has been involved as counsel, expert, and arbitrator in various proceedings, including before the International Court of Justice, the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, inter-State and investor-State tribunals, as well as in inter-State conciliation proceedings, international commercial arbitrations, and domestic court proceedings.

Professor Brown joined the University of Sydney Law School in 2009. He previously served as Assistant Legal Adviser at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (2007-2009), and prior to this, he was a Senior Associate in the International Law and International Arbitration Group of Clifford Chance LLP, London (2004-2007).  Professor Brown has held visiting positions at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (2006), Harvard Law School (2011), the University of Cambridge (2013), the University of Auckland (2011-2015), Sciences Po (2019-2020), and Singapore Management University (2020-2021). In January 2021, he delivered a course of lectures on "Evidence in International Adjudication" for The Hague Academy of International Law.

He is the author of A Common Law of International Adjudication (OUP, 2007), a major study on the applicable procedure and remedies before international courts and tribunals, which was awarded the American Society of International Law’s Certificate of Merit, and which has been translated into Chinese (Xiuli Hans trans, China Law Press, 2015). He is also co-author of The International Arbitration Act 1974: A Commentary (Lexis-Nexis, 3rd ed, 2018); co-editor of Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (CUP, 2011), which was awarded OGEMID’s Prize for “Book of the Year 2011”; editor of Commentaries on Selected Model Investment Treaties (OUP, 2013), and co-editor of The Asian Turn in Foreign Investment (CUP, 2021).

Professor Browni s the Co-Editor-in-Chief of The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals, and the Editor (Notes) of the ICSID Review – Foreign Investment Law Journal.  He is a graduate of the Universities of Melbourne, Oxford, and Cambridge, and he speaks French and German.

BA LLM LLD (Sydney)

Peter Butt holds the degrees of BA, LLB, LLM, and LLD, from Sydney University. He is an Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Sydney. His main teaching and research areas are land law, native title, and legal drafting. He has been a visiting professor at a number of overseas universities, including Cambridge, Bristol, Nottingham, and Vanderbilt (USA). In 2001 he was the Inns of Court Fellow at the Inner Temple (London). He co-founded the Law Foundation Centre for Plain Legal Language at the University of Sydney, and was for a number of years the Chair of Clarity (an international plain-language organisation, with a mandate to improve the way that lawyers write). In 2009 he was awarded the Plain Language Association International Award for outstanding contributions to plain language.

Peter has served as a consultant to a number of governments and related bodies on aspects of land law and land rights. They include: the Commonwealth Government on the Native Title Act; the New South Wales Government on aspects of property and conveyancing law; and the governments of Manitoba and Saskatchewan on a self-government treaty for the Meadow Lake First Nations. Peter has also drafted land laws and land registration legislation for a number of overseas jurisdictions, including Mongolia, Uganda and Dubai.

Peter was joint editor of the inaugural edition of The Australian Legal Dictionary (Butterworths). He has also written books on land law, conveyancing, the Torrens system of land registration, Australian native title, the rule against perpetuities, legal writing, and legal drafting. He was for 30 years the editor and chief contributor to the ‘Property and Conveyancing’ section of the Australian Law Journal.

He has presented seminars on property law and legal drafting to students, academics and legal professionals in many countries. They include Australia, England, Scotland, Ireland, Malta, Canada, the United States of America, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore.

BA LLB (ANU) PhD (Melbourne) FAHA

Simon is Director of the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at the University of Sydney Law School (CAPLUS). Fluent in Indonesian, Simon has written widely on Indonesian law and the Indonesian legal system. He has consulted on Indonesian law to the private and public sectors, and has provided advice and expert opinions about Indonesian law for litigation in the US, UK, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia.

Danielle Captain-Webb is a Wiradjuri and Gomeroi Woman who was born and raised on Darkinjung Country.
Danielle commenced as the First Nations Practioner in Residence within Sydney University Law School in February 2025.
She also holds the position of Solicitor Advocate within the Coronial Inquest Unit at Legal Aid NSW.

AO, LLB DipCrim (Melbourne) PhD (Monash)

Terry Carney (LLB. (Hons), Dip. Crim. (Melb), PhD. (Mon)) AO, FAAL is Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Sydney Law School, where he was a long-serving Director of Research and past Head of Department. A Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, he is a past President (2005-2007) of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health, and chaired Commonwealth bodies such as the National Advisory Council on Social Welfare and of the Board of the Institute of Family Studies, along with various State enquiries on child welfare, adult guardianship and health law.

The author of nearly a dozen books/monographs and over 250 academic papers, he is currently an Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-making and Society, writing on issues of automation in social security law, welfare services and the NDIS, his recent monographs include: Bigby, Carney, Then, Wiesel, Sinclair, Douglas, & Duffy, Diversity, Dignity, Equity and Best Practice: A Framework for Supported Decision-Making (2023) Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability, 1-421; Carney, Tait, Perry, Vernon &. Beaupert, Australian Mental Health Tribunals: Space for fairness, freedom, protection & treatment? (Sydney: Themis/NSW Law Foundation, 2011, i-xi, 1-353); Carney et al Managing Anorexia Nervosa:  Clinical, Legal & Social Perspectives on Involuntary Treatment (New York: Nova Science, 2006); Social Security Law and Policy (Sydney: Federation press, 2006) and Bennett, Carney, & Karpin,  (eds), The Brave New World of Health (Federation Press, 2008).  He currently is a Chief Investigator on the Medical Research Future Fund project: 'Building capacity for supported decision-making for people living with Dementia and acquired Disability' (Sinclair et al 2024-).

More recent books include Carney, Tait, Perry, Beaupert & Vernon, Australian Mental Health Tribunals: Space for fairness, freedom, protection & treatment, (Sydney: Themis/NSW Law Foundation, 2011); Managing Anorexia Nervosa: Clinical, Legal & Social Perspectives on Involuntary Treatment (New York: Nova Science, 2006); Social Security Law and Policy (Sydney: Federation press, 2006) and Bennett, Carney, & Karpin, (eds), The Brave New World of Health (Sydney: Federation Press, 2008).  His book Carney & Ramia, From Rights to Management: Contract, new public management and employment services (Kluwer Law International, 2002), 1-217 examined transformations of social rights in the area of social security and employment, as wrought by privatization and market forces. These and other works apply citizenship theory and contractualism to analyse law and policy for vulnerable groups such as the unemployed, children, the aged and disabled. Earlier works include Carney & Tait An Experiment in Popular Justice: Adult guardianship in Australia (1997, Federation Press).  Carney, Law at the Margins:  Towards Social Participation (Melbourne: OUP 1991); Carney & Singer, Ethical and Legal Issues in Guardianship Options for Intellectually Disadvantaged People (Canberra:  AGPS, 1986); Carney & Hanks, Australian Social Security Law Policy and Administration  (Melbourne:  OUP, 1986); Carney, Drug Users and the Law in Australia:  From crime control to welfare (Sydney:  LBC, 1987).

A recipient of several Australia=in Research Council grants, he more recently completed working on an ARC funded study: Effective Decision Making Support for People with Cognitive Disability; [ Bigby C, Douglas J, Carney T, Wiesel I, Then S] and a Report for the Disability Royal Commission. He is an Associate Investigator on the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making (ADM+S). Prior to that he was a CI on a recently completed study: National registration of health practitioners: a comparative study of the complaints and notification system under the national system and in NSW. He was the recipient of the University of Sydney Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Higher Degree Supervision.

Professor Carney has chaired various Government enquiries (including Victorian enquiries on Child Welfare Practice and Legislation (1982-84), on Health Law (1986-1987)) and was a member of Australia's pioneering enquiry into Adult guardianship (1980-1982). He oversaw the writing of the Social Security Act 1991 (Cth) and for nearly 40 years served as a member of the Social Security Appeals Tribunal and its successor the Social Services and Child Support Division of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. He was also a founding Director of the National Children and Youth Law Centre (1992-2003).

Dr Judy (Judith) Cashmore AO is Professor Emerita (Socio-legal Research and Policy). Her research is interdisciplinary and translational, building bridges between research and its application to improve the experience and outcomes for children and young people involved in criminal and civil legal decision-making processes that affect their lives.

She is internationally recognised as a leading scholar in her field, and received significant awards for her research, which is cited in judicial judgements, inquiries and in parliamentary reforms. She has published 100+ peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and reports to reach an international and national academic and professional readership.

She has worked as a consultant to various state and federal government agencies including the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. She has been involved in numerous state and federal government committees concerning children and families.

Judy was an appointed Member of the Judicial Commission of New South Wales 2004- Dec 2024.She was visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of Otago Faculty of Law S1 2024. She has a PhD in Developmental Psychology and a Masters in Education and is an Adjunct Professor at Southern Cross University (since 2005).

LLB (Hons) London GradDipLegalPrac PhD Sydney GradCertEdStud(HigherEd) Sydney

Dr Louise Cauchi is an Education-Focused Lecturer at the University of Sydney Law School with over ten years of dedicated service as a sessional academic and examiner. Her teaching portfolio spans a comprehensive array of courses within the Law School Professional Law Programs (LLB/JD) and Postgraduate Coursework Programs, including Legal Research, Civil and Criminal Procedure, Criminal Law, Torts, and Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System. Louise's teaching philosophy emphasises creating an inclusive and supportive learning environment that fosters student engagement and a personalised learning experience. With a seven-year background as a lawyer specialising in medical negligence, she brings practical insights into her teaching.

She holds a PhD in Law from the University of Sydney, where her thesis explored the intersection of cosmetic surgery and the law of negligence. Louise's ongoing pursuit of educational scholarship, completing the Graduate Certificate in Educational Studies (Higher Education), reinforces her commitment to continuous improvement and innovation in pedagogical practices, ensuring that her teaching remains at the forefront of educational excellence. She has recently been appointed a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). Louise is a member of the Law School's Education Committee and actively contributes to strategic initiatives including leading curriculum and assessment development, and educational reform. She is also a member of the University of Sydney Human Research Ethics Committee - Teaching & Learning Low Risk Subcommittee and an Executive Member of the Australasian Law Academics Association.

Prior to becoming a lawyer and academic, Louise was a professional ballet dancer with London City Ballet based at Sadler's Wells Theatre. She performed in numerous productions including 'Swan Lake' and 'Romeo and Juliet' throughout the United Kingdom, Europe, and Russia, was a competitor in the International Ballet Genée Awards at the London Palladium Theatre and recipient of a full scholarship for her graduate training with the Hamburg State Ballet School.

LLB (Hons) BEcon (Hons) PhD ANU, LLM JSD Columbia

Ben Chen is a law and economics scholar whose work spans equity and trusts, inheritance law, civil procedure, game theory, and behavioural economics. His current research centres on inheritance litigation and superannuation and pensions as inheritance. This research draws on his information theoretic and contest theoretic modelling of civil litigation. It also draws on his economic, empirical and doctrinal analyses of institutions and transactions that blur the boundaries between life and death.

Ben's cognate research in economics develops contest theory and information design theory to account for bounded rationality, other-regarding preferences, and externalities. His work in legal history studies equitable remedial and fiduciary principles in transnational litigation and their interaction with conflict of laws.

Among Ben's publications are original articles in the American Law and Economics Review, Cornell Law Review, Economic Theory, Melbourne University Law Review (on fiduciary duties, class actions, superannuation), and Modern Law Review. The Australian Research Council has awarded him a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) and a Discovery Project (DP) grant. His works have been cited and awarded a prize by judges from Australia, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom.

Shortly after joining Sydney Law School in 2018, Ben completed research doctorates in law at Columbia University (JSD 2019) and in economics at the Australian National University (PhD 2018). Prior to this, he worked as a research assistant to Professor Elizabeth S Scott at Columbia (2015–18), a sessional academic at the Australian National University (2014–16), and a judge’s associate at the ACT Supreme Court (2013–14). In his final undergraduate year, he served as Tipstaff to Justice Geoff Lindsay AM in the Equity Division of the NSW Supreme Court (2012–13).

Ben serves on the editorial board of Sydney Law Review and the board of counsellors of the Francis Forbes Society for Australian Legal History. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

LLB (Lagos) LLM (QMUL) PHD (Auckland)

Chidozie teaches tax law and corporations law at the University of Sydney Law School. His research focuses on international tax law, policy, and practice, with particular emphasis on international tax competition. His work investigates international tax competition, especially through corporate  income taxation, and examines appropriate policy responses. His research outputs include peer‑reviewed publications on a range of tax law topics.

Chidozie earned his educational qualifications from the University of Lagos, Nigeria; Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), United Kingdom; and the University of Auckland, New Zealand. At QMUL, he was the Centre for Commercial Law Studies/University of Lagos LLM scholar for the 2014/2015 academic year. He was also a University of Auckland doctoral scholar from 2016 to 2020. Before joining the University of Sydney Law School, Chidozie was a postdoctoral research fellow in international tax law at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He has taught tax law at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and Stellenbosch University and worked as a legal practitioner in Nigeria.

Dr Garner Clancey is an Associate Professor in Criminology, joining the University of Sydney Law School in 2011. Prior to this, Garner worked in criminal justice agencies (including Juvenile Justice NSW and the NSW Police Force) between 1992-2002 and worked as a crime prevention consultant between 2002-2010. Garner taught crime prevention, policing, juvenile justice, security and criminology courses at five other Australian universities between 2000 and 2011. Garner's work focuses on the intersection between research, policy and practice.

Currently, Garner is working to develop a whole-of-university approach to justice and crime issues. Garner works closely with industry partners and colleagues from across the University of Sydney to tackle various practical and systemic challenges impacting the criminal justice system. This work has resulted in the establishment of the University of Sydney Justice Collaboration, and publications such as Youth Crime, Youth Justice and Children's Courts in NSW and A whole-of-university response to youth justice: Reflections on a university-youth justice partnership | Australian Institute of Criminology (amongst others).

Garner is a member of various research centres including the Sydney Institute of Criminology, the Matilda Centre, the Technology Addiction Team (Brain and Mind Centre), and an affiliate of the Wellbeing Health and Youth Centre of Research Excellence in Adolescent Health.