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Education
and Professional
LLB (Hons) (Adel); LLM (Adel)
Barrister and Solicitor Supreme Court of South Australia
Currently also a Professorial Fellow (Melbourne Uni) and Adjunct Professor
(ANU)
Consultant to the Federal House of Representatives on Parliamentary Law
Formerly employed as Senior Lecturer 1975 - 1986, Reader 1987 - 1994 (ANU);
Reader and Associate Professor 1994 - 1999, Professor 1999 - 2001
Employed in the Federal Attorney - General's Department from 1965 to 1975 rising
to the position of head of the Constitutional Review Branch.
Member of the Distribution of Powers Advisory Committee to the Constitutional
Commission (1986 - 1987), and as a consultant to the Australian Constitutional
Convention (1975 - 1985) and the Federal Attorney - General's Department on a
number of occasions.
Appeared as counsel in two major High Court constitutional cases (Fencott
v Muller (1983) and McGinty v Western Australia (1995)).
Helped to form and was the inaugural Secretary of the newly formed Australian Association of Constitutional Law 1998 -2003. He served as coopted member of the Council of that Association in 2005. He was also the Australian Secretary of the Selden Society during 1988 - 1997.
Principal Subjects Taught
(prior to retirement as full time academic)
Federal Constitutional Law
Constitutional and Administrative Law
Advanced
Constitutional Law
Private International Law
Commercial Law
Research Interests
Constitutional Law
Parliamentary Law
Administrative Law
Private and Public International Law
Biography
Geoffrey Lindell retired from full time teaching early in 2002. Since then he has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Adelaide University and the Australian National University; and also a Professorial Fellow of the University of Melbourne. Before then he held full time academic positions at both the Australian National University where he spent the most of his academic life from 1975 to 1993 (Senior Lecturer and Reader in Law) and the University of Melbourne from 1994 to 2001 (Reader and Associate Professor of Law and rising to the position of Professor of Law). He was a guest of the Washington and Lee University Law School, Lexington, Virginia, USA, where he taught during the Spring Semester (February - April 2004).
Throughout his career Professor Lindell has taught and published widely in the field of Australian constitutional and public law.
Professor Lindell served as a member of the Distribution of Powers Advisory Committee to the Constitutional Commission (1986 - 1987), and was a consultant to the Australian Constitutional Convention (1975 - 1985). Before he joined the Australian National University Law School he was employed in the Federal Attorney-General's Department between 1966 and 1975. He held a senior position in that Department by the time he resigned from that employment to pursue an academic career. He has since acted as a consultant to the same Department on several occasions. He has also acted as a standing consultant to the House of Representatives since 2001 and also provided advice to the Western Australian Parliament, the South Australian Auditor-General and a British joint parliamentary committee which inquired into parliamentary privilege in 1999.
Professor Lindell appeared as counsel in two major High Court constitutional cases (Fencott v Muller (1983) and McGinty v Western Australia (1995)). He helped to form, and was from its inception in 1988 until early in 2003, the Secretary of the Australian Association of Constitutional Law. He subsequently served as a coopted member of the Council in 2005 as well as being a co-convenor of the local South Australian activities for the same Association. He also taught private international law and co - authored the case book, Conflict of Laws: Commentaries and Materials (1997) (with Professors Martin Davies and Sam Ricketson).
Recently a special issue of the Adelaide Law Review (vol 25, 2004: "Dead Hands or Living Tree?" - Festschrift) was published in honour of Professor Lindell's work following his retirement from full time teaching.
Major Publications
Books
Edited:
Future Directions in Australian Constitutional Law (1994)
Co-edited:
Parliament: The Vision in Hindsight (2001 with R Bennett)
Co-authored:
Sawer's Australian Constitutional Cases (4th ed., 1982 with Professor L Zines)
Conflict of Laws: Commentaries and Materials (1997) (with Professors Martin
Davies and Sam Ricketson)
Chapters in Books and Journal Articles (recent)
"Responsible Government" in P Finn (ed.), Essays in Law and Government
(1995) Ch 4.
"Judicial Review of International Affairs" in B Opeskin and D Rothwell
(ed) International Law and Australian Federalism (1997) Ch 6.
"Murphy Affair in Retrospect" in H Lee and G Winterton (eds), Australian Constitutional Landmarks (Cambridge Uni Press, 2003), Ch 11, 280 - 311.
"Parliamentary Inquiries and Government Witnesses" (1995) 20 Melbourne University Law Review, 383.
"Expansion or Contraction? - Some Reflections About the Recent Developments on Representative Democracy" (1998) 20 Adelaide Law Review 111.
"The Australian Constitution: Growth, Adaptation and Conflict - Reflections About Some Major Cases and Events" (1999) 25 Monash University Law Review 257.
"Invalidity, Dis-application and the Construction of Acts of Parliament:
Their Relationship with Parliamentary Sovereignty in the light of the European
Communities Act and the Human Rights Act" (1999) 2 Cambridge Yearbook
of European Legal Studies 399.
"Parliamentary appropriations and the funding of the Federal Government's pre - election advertising in 1998" (1999) 2(2) Constitutional Law & Policy Review, 21 - 27.
"Reflections on the Tampa Affair" 2002 4(2) Constitutional Law and Policy Review 22 - 25.
Regie National des Usines Renault SA v Zhang - Choice of law in torts and another farewell to Phillipps v Eyre but the Voth test retained for forum non conveniens in Australia (2002) 3 Melbourne Journal of International Law pp 364 - 382.
"The Hollingworth affair: implications for the future appointment of vice-regal representatives" (2004) 6 Constitutional Law and Policy Review 73 - 79.
"A Possible Limit on the Use of Commonwealth Places for 'Non- Federal Purposes': From Airports to Shopping Malls" (2004) Public Law Review 269 - 275.
"Grappling with Inconsistency between Commonwealth and State legislation and the link with statutory interpretation" (2005) 8(2) Constitutional Law and Policy Review 26 - 44.
"Commonwealth control of ports as an exercise of the Commonwealth's 'first and foremost power'" (2005) 16 Public Law Review (No 4) 271 - 5.
Papers
(In the Law and Policy Paper Series published by ANU Centre for International and Public Law)
"Tribunals of Inquiry and Royal Commissions (Paper 22, 2003, 90 pp).
"Responsible Government and the Australian Constitution - Conventions transformed into Law" (Paper 24, 2004, 26 pp).
"The Coalition Wars against Iraq and Afghanistan in the courts of the UK, Ireland and the US - Lessons for Australia" (Paper 26, 2005, 44pp).
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