Associate Professor – University of Newcastle, Newcastle
Professor John Anderson worked in legal practice as a criminal prosecutor with ODPP (NSW) for approximately eight years before becoming an academic. He worked as a Lecturer in Law at University of Newcastle from 1998 specialising in Criminal Law, Evidence and Advocacy. Thereafter he was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2005 and promoted to Associate Professor in 2010. John has a strong interest in sentencing in the criminal justice system, various aspects of evidence law, legal education and the synergy between academic learning and practical legal training. He has published several books on evidence law, including his latest work Uniform Evidence in Australia, 2nd edn 2018, which he co-authored with Neil Williams SC, Judith Marychurch and Julia Roy.
Professor John Anderson worked in legal practice as a criminal prosecutor with ODPP (NSW) for approximately eight years before becoming an academic. He worked as a Lecturer in Law at University of Newcastle from 1998 specialising in Criminal Law, Evidence and Advocacy. Thereafter he was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2005 and promoted to Associate Professor in 2010. John has a strong interest in sentencing in the criminal justice system, various aspects of evidence law, legal education and the synergy between academic learning and practical legal training. He has published several books on evidence law, including his latest work Uniform Evidence in Australia, 2nd edn 2018, which he co-authored with Neil Williams SC, Judith Marychurch and Julia Roy.