Gary Edmond is a law professor in the School of Law at the University of New South Wales, where he directs the Program in Expertise, Evidence and Law. Originally trained in the history and philosophy of science, he subsequently studied law at the University of Sydney and took a PhD in law from the University of Cambridge. An active commentator on expert evidence in Australia, England, the US and Canada, he is a member of the Council of the...view more
Gary Edmond is a law professor in the School of Law at the University of New South Wales, where he directs the Program in Expertise, Evidence and Law. Originally trained in the history and philosophy of science, he subsequently studied law at the University of Sydney and took a PhD in law from the University of Cambridge. An active commentator on expert evidence in Australia, England, the US and Canada, he is a member of the Council of the Australian Academy of Forensic Sciences, a member of Standards Australia’s forensic science committee, a member of the editorial board of the Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales, and served as an international adviser to the Goudge Inquiry into Pediatric Forensic Pathology in Ontario (2007-2008). He is Chair of the Evidence-based forensics initiative (EBFI) and is co-author of Australian Evidence: A principled approach to the common law and the uniform acts (6th ed. LexisNexis, 2017).
Areas of expertise:
Expert evidence, Forensic science, Law and science, Law and society, Sociology of scientific knowledge, Public understanding of law, Empirical legal studies
My Grants
2017-2020 ARC LP Creating perceptual expertise in Australia’s A$364 188
policing and security agencies
(Partners: Australian Federal Police; Queensland Police
Service; National Institute of Forensic Sciences; New
South Wales Police, Victoria Police)
Chief Investigator with Assoc. Prof. Jason Tangen (UQ)
and others.
2016-2018 ARC LP: Improving the communication of A$200 500
forensic science evidence to courts
(Partner: Victoria Police)
Chief Investigator with Dr Kristy Martire (UNSW)
2012-2015 ARC LP: Forensic reasoning and uncertainty A$430 000
(Partners: Australian Federal Police; Queensland Police
Service; National Institute of Forensic Sciences; New
South Wales Police, Victoria Police)
Chief Investigator with Assoc. Prof. Jason Tangen (UQ)
and others
2009-2013 ARC Future Fellowship: Suspect sciences A$761 981
Chief Investigator
2010-2013 ARC LP: Forensic Voice Comparison A$250 000
(Partners: School of Language, ANU; Engineering,
UNSW; Australian Federal Police; Queensland Police
Service; Victoria Police; Western Australian Police;
National Institute of Forensic Science; Guardia Civil,
Departamento de Ingeniería (Spain).)
Chief Investigator with Dr Geoffrey Morrison (UNSW)
and others
2007-2010 ARC Discovery Project: Law’s experts A$108 000
Chief Investigator
My Qualifications
BA(Hons)(Medal) University of Wollongong, LLB(Hons) University of Sydney, PhD University of Cambridge
My Awards
Fellow, Royal Society of New South Wales
My Research Supervision
Supervision keywords
Areas of supervision
evidence, expert evidence, forensic science, law and science, expertise, law and society, research methods, interdisciplinary research
My Teaching
I teach Courts, Procedure, Evidence and Proof, Introducing Law and Justice and the elective Expert Evidence
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