ProfessorPeter Gerangelos

AM, FAAL, BA LLB (Sydney) LLM PhD (UNSW)

Peter Gerangelos is the Professor of Constitutional Law at Sydney Law School and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. Prior to joining Sydney Law School, as Principal Solicitor in the Office of the Australian Government Solicitor, he acted as legal counsel to the Commonwealth.  He was a Commonwealth Attorney-General's Scholar, in which capacity he undertook his doctoral research in comparative constitutional law under the late Professor George Winterton.  

He is a recipient of the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Teaching in the University of Sydney, has been a Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of Law at Cambridge University and was the invited Australian representative in the international research collaboration centred at the University of Vienna on federalism and tax harmonisation (2010-2013) which involved jurists and legal academics from the European Union and major non-EU federations. He has been the general editor and is one of the main authors of Winterton's Australian Federal Constitutional Law (Thomson Reuters), and joint author of The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia: History, Principles and Interpretation (Cambridge). He was the foundation Convenor of the George Winterton Memorial Lecture Series. He has been a member of the Editorial Board of Sydney Law Review, and a consultant and judge for the Governor-General's Undergraduate Essay Competition. He continues to be a consultant to legal counsel in constitutional cases in Commonwealth jurisdictions.