Rate My Professor Andrew Lynch

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.