School of Law: Law School Staff - Andrew Goldsmith

Andrew Goldsmith is Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at Flinders University, Adelaide. He is the Course Director for the new LLM (International Law and International Relations), starting in 2008. He is co-editor and contributing author (with M Israel and K Daly) of Crime and Justice: A Guide to Criminology (Sydney: Lawbook, 2006). He has a longstanding research interest in policing and law enforcement and has published extensively in this area, particularly in the area of police integrity and police accountability. Notably, this has resulted in two books, Complaints Against the Police: The Trend to External Review (Oxford, 1991), and (with C Lewis), Civilian Oversight of Policing: Governance, Democracy and Human Rights (Hart, 2000). His current major interest is in policing in developing countries and the impact of transnational crime on governance in these countries. He has advised the governments of Kenya, Colombia and Turkey on matters of police reform, as well as undertaking consultancies for the Open Society Justice Initiative and the UNDP. A new book (co-edited with James Sheptycki), entitled Crafting Transnational Policing: Police Capacity-building and Global Policing Reform was published in October 2007 by Hart Publishing, Oxford. He is involved in a major study of Australian police assistance missions in Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands. The study is funded by the Australian Research Council and the Australian Federal Police. In 2007, he was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto Law School, where he taught the course, Law, Security and International Development.