Researcher

Professor Michael James Legg

My Expertise

Civil Litigation; Mega-cases; Class Actions; Litigation Funding.

Online dispute resolution/courts

Securities Litigation and Corporate Law.

Legal Profession, Technology and Disruption.

Keywords

Biography

Michael Legg is a Professor in the Faculty of Law, UNSW and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.

He specialises in complex litigation, including regulatory litigation and class actions, and in innovation in the legal profession. 

He is the author of Case Management and Complex Civil Litigation (Federation Press, 2nd ed 2022) and Public and Private Enforcement of Securities Law (Hart, 2022). He is the co-author of Corporate Misconduct and...view more

Michael Legg is a Professor in the Faculty of Law, UNSW and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.

He specialises in complex litigation, including regulatory litigation and class actions, and in innovation in the legal profession. 

He is the author of Case Management and Complex Civil Litigation (Federation Press, 2nd ed 2022) and Public and Private Enforcement of Securities Law (Hart, 2022). He is the co-author of Corporate Misconduct and White-Collar Crime (Thomson Reuters, 2022), Artificial Intelligence and the Legal Profession (Hart, 2020), Civil Procedure in New South Wales (Thomson Reuters, 4th ed 2020), Annotated Class Actions Legislation (LexisNexis, 2d ed 2018).   

His research has been cited in judgments from the Federal Court of Australia, Supreme Court of New South Wales, Supreme Court of Victoria and Supreme Court of New Zealand, and in law reform reports by the Australian Law Reform Commission, Productivity Commission, NSW Law Reform Commission and Victorian Law Reform Commission.

Michael has 25 years of experience as a legal practitioner having worked with leading Australian and US law firms. He is admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of NSW, Federal Court of Australia, High Court of Australia and in the State and Federal courts of New York.  He holds law degrees from UNSW (LLB), the University of California, Berkeley (LLM) and the University of Melbourne (PhD).

Michael is a member of the Law Council of Australia's Class Actions Committee and the Federal Court Class Actions Users Committee. 


My Qualifications

University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

University of California, Berkeley, USA
Master of Laws

University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Bachelor of Laws
Masters of Commerce with honors in Accounting
Bachelor of Commerce with honors in Accounting


My Awards

Recipient of the Article/Chapter (General) Award at the Australian Legal Research Awards for 2020.

Awarded the Lawyers Weekly Australian Law Awards – Academic of the Year for 2017.

Recipient of the Dean’s Award for Impact and Engagement for 2016


My Research Supervision


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Areas of supervision

Civil Procedure, Civil Litigation, Class Actions, Litigation Funding, Corporate Law, Securities Regulation, Securities Litigation 

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Location

Room 215
Law Building
UNSW Kensington Campus

Contact

+61 2 9385 9653