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Professor Andrew Lynch serves as Dean of the UNSW Faculty of Law & Justice, a position to which he was appointed in 2021 after serving as Acting Dean from July 2020. An alumnus of UNSW where he obtained his PhD in constitutional law, Lynch holds an LLB (Hons) and an LLM from Queensland University of Technology. He has been a professor at UNSW Law & Justice since 2011, previously acting as Head of School and Deputy Dean from 2017 to 2020. Between 2008 and 2013, he directed the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law and continues to engage in its Judiciary Project research. Lynch teaches courses including Principles of Public Law, Federal Constitutional Law, Contemporary Constitutional Law, Introducing Law & Justice, and Legal Concepts, Research & Writing.

His scholarship concentrates on Australian constitutional law, particularly federalism, judicial dissent, judicial appointments and education, and legal responses to terrorism. A Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and member of the Council of the Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration, Lynch has secured several Australian Research Council grants. Among his key publications are co-authored textbooks Blackshield and Williams Australian Constitutional Law and Theory (7th ed., 2018; 6th ed., 2014), Australia’s Greatest Judicial Crisis: The Tim Carmody Affair (2016), and Inside Australia’s Anti-Terrorism Laws and Trials (2014). He has edited The Judge, the Judiciary and the Court: Individual, Collegial and Institutional Judicial Dynamics in Australia (2021), Great Australian Dissents (2016), Counter-Terrorism and Beyond: The Culture of Law and Justice After 9/11 (2010), and Law and Liberty in the War on Terror (2007). Lynch provides regular media commentary on legal matters and has testified before parliamentary inquiries on counter-terrorism laws and judicial regulation.