The Honourable Robert French AC has been Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia since 2008, before which he was a judge of the Federal Court of Australia, having been appointed to that office in November 1986. He graduated from the University of Western Australia in science and law. From 1994 to 1998 he was President of the National Native Title Tribunal. At that time he was also a Deputy President of the Australian Competition Tribunal, and a part-time member of the Australian Law Reform Commission.

Dr Amelia Simpson is one of Australia’s leading scholars of discrimination and equality principles in constitutional law. Her published research on interstate free trade doctrine has been cited and quoted with approval by pluralities in Australia’s High Court and Federal Court.

Amelia’s wider body of research has been cited extensively within the writings of other leading public law scholars and she was ranked in the top 20 most prolific publishers in Australia’s highest quality law journals over the period 2000-2010.

Dr Stephen Thomson is an Associate Professor

I'm a Queenslander at the ANU Law School. In my writing, research, and teaching I'm interested in the legal questions that define our democracy, and the interface between law, politics, and government: constitutional law and human rights law. In particular, current major projects are on Australian constitutional fundamentals and on criminal fair trial rights under the ECHR. My academic work has been published in publications such as Public Law, the Human Rights Law Review, the Modern Law Review, and others, and cited by the European Court of Human Rights on numerous occasions.

Professor Ron Levy is an interdisciplinary researcher writing on public law a

Associate Professor Matthew Zagor has 20 years’ experience as a human rights

Leighton McDonald’s research has traversed a number of areas in public law an

Associate Professor & ARC DECRA

Kieran Pende