Biography
Derick is a Casual Academic at the University of New South Wales. Derick is an award-winning teacher specialising in media law and teaches in a range of law subjects in the BCom, LLB and JD program. He has also delivered guest lectures at the University of Sydney and the University of Technology Sydney.
Prior to joining the Faculty, Derick practiced at MinterEllison in dispute resolution and specialised in litigation related to defamation and...view more
Derick is a Casual Academic at the University of New South Wales. Derick is an award-winning teacher specialising in media law and teaches in a range of law subjects in the BCom, LLB and JD program. He has also delivered guest lectures at the University of Sydney and the University of Technology Sydney.
Prior to joining the Faculty, Derick practiced at MinterEllison in dispute resolution and specialised in litigation related to defamation and class actions. His experience encompasses a wide range of complex and high-profile matters in defamation, corporations law, equity and trusts and insolvency. Derick's work as a practitioner has been widely recognised, through a number of industry awards such as the 30 Under 30 Law awards and the Most Innovative Dispute Resolution Lawyers in the Asia-Pacific awards.
Derick's teaching, research and practice focuses on the intersection of media freedom, defamation and national security. Derick has written on comparative criminal and constitutional law and democracy, including work on freedom of expression, defamation, press freedom and national security. He regularly makes submissions on criminal and media law matters.
Derick has law degrees from the University of Oxford, the University of New South Wales and the University of Technology Sydney. His research at the University of Oxford was funded by the University of Oxford and its Clarendon Fund.
My Qualifications
MPhil (Oxford), GDLPP (UNSW), MSCM (MIT), LLB (Hons I) BBus (UTS)
My Research Activities
Derick Luong, Thalia Anthony and Jennifer Burn AM, ‘Submission to the UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, Call for Input on Contemporary Forms of Slavery as Affecting Currently and Formerly Incarcerated People’ (12 April 2024).
Derick Luong, Elyse Methven, Daniel Kemp and Thalia Anthony, ‘Submission to the NSW Law Reform Commission, Review of State's Laws on Threats and Incitement to Violence’ (19 April 2024).
Lexie Henderson-Lancett, Derick Luong and Daniel Kemp, ‘Submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission, Justice Responses to Sexual Violence’ (24 May 2024).
Thalia Anthony, Derick Luong and Elyse Methven, 'Submission to the NSW Department of Communities and Justice, Review of the Roads Act 1993, Part 9, Division 7 and the Crimes Act 1900, Part 4AF' (1 June 2024).