Emeritus Professor of Law, Macquarie University, Sydney
Tony Blackshield taught in the 1960s in the Department of Jurisprudence and International Law at the University of Sydney. In the 1970s he was a founding member of the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales. Thereafter he was Professor of Legal Studies at La Trobe University (1979-1988), and Professor of Law at Macquarie University (1988-1999). He was also a frequent public commentator, notably on "the Dismissal" of 11 November 1975 and "the Murphy affair" of 1984-1986. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, an Honorary Professor of the Indian Law Institute, New Delhi, and an Officer of the Order of Australia.
Tony Blackshield taught in the 1960s in the Department of Jurisprudence and International Law at the University of Sydney. In the 1970s he was a founding member of the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales. Thereafter he was Professor of Legal Studies at La Trobe University (1979-1988), and Professor of Law at Macquarie University (1988-1999). He was also a frequent public commentator, notably on "the Dismissal" of 11 November 1975 and "the Murphy affair" of 1984-1986. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, an Honorary Professor of the Indian Law Institute, New Delhi, and an Officer of the Order of Australia.