Professor Andrew Edgar serves as Associate Dean (Research) and Professor in the University of Sydney Law School. He completed his PhD at Sydney Law School and was appointed as a lecturer in 2008, subsequently advancing to his current senior roles. Edgar specializes in administrative law, particularly the relationship between judicial review and administrative decision-making, administrative law-making processes, regulation-making, scrutiny of regulations by parliaments and courts, statutory interpretation, and the implementation of international law in domestic legal systems. He is actively involved in the Sydney Public Law research group, contributing to themes on governments, legal institutions, and rights. Beyond academia, Edgar acts as Legal Advisor to the Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation, influencing the parliamentary oversight of delegated powers in Australia.

Andrew Edgar has enriched administrative law scholarship with impactful publications and funded research. His forthcoming book, Regulation-Making in the United Kingdom and Australia: Democratic Aggrandisement or Deliberative Democratic Defence? (Hart Publishing, 2025), offers a comparative analysis of regulation-making and democratic accountability. Prominent articles include 'Parallel Incorporation and Public Law' in the International Journal of Constitutional Law (2023), 'Transnational Regulatory Law: Domestic Implementation, Transparency and Scrutiny' (2023), 'Disrupting Administrative Law in a Public Health Crisis' in The Regulatory Review (2020), and 'The Authority and Interpretation of Regulations' (2020). He has also contributed to discussions on participation in merits review of polycentric decisions and is authoring a chapter for Comparative Administrative Law (Edward Elgar, 2026). As Chief Investigator, Edgar secured Australian Research Council Discovery Project funding (DP210102688, 2021–2026, $223,742) for peer review of financial regulators with Professor Yane Svetiev, and serves as CI on ARC project LE210100043 with Dr Tanya Josev and Dr Dominique Dalla-Pozza. His scholarship shapes policy on regulatory transparency, administrative accountability, and public law principles, while his leadership as Associate Dean promotes research innovation at the Law School.

Professional Email: andrew.edgar@sydney.edu.au