International Conference on the Future of Legal Education

Edward Santow

Ed Santow, BA LLB (Hons) (Sydney) LLM (Hons) (Cambridge), is a Senior Lecturer in law at the University of New South Wales (Australia), as well as being the Director of the Charter of Human Rights Project at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law. Ed also serves as a Legal Adviser to the Legislation Review Committee of the NSW Parliament, which is responsible for assessing whether Bills of Parliament infringe unduly on human rights. Ed is on the board of the Refugee Advice and Casework Service, and he also represents Australasia on the Steering Committee of the Global Alliance for Justice Education. Ed has previously worked at the Australian Law Reform Commission and as a solicitor at a Sydney law firm. He was Associate to Justice Heydon of the High Court of Australia.