School of Law: Law School Staff - David Clark

David Clark
D Phil(Oxon), BA(Hons), LLB(Otago)

Professor

After Oxford, David lived and worked in Hong Kong for 13 years where he taught Administrative Law in a public administration programme. He was also, and still is, involved as a consultant to a legal practice that specialises in refugee, human rights and judicial review cases. He has written on a range of public law subjects including administrative law, habeas corpus, seditious speech, the Hong Kong Basic Law, and issues of public accountability. He currently teaches Public Law & Regulation, Administrative Law, Australian Legal History and Advanced Public Law. He has completed a monograph on personal liberty in the Commonwealth for The Clarendon Law Series and a book on Habeas Corpus in Australia. In 2003 David published Principles of Australian Public Law (LexisNexis, Sydney) with a second edition in 2007. In 2003–2004 he was consulted by two of the groups making submissions to the US Supreme Court in Rasul v Bush (the Guantanamo Bay Case). His current research interests include a study of the Australian Ballot, the management of money bill disputes in bicameral parliaments, and a long term project on the history of discretion in common law discourse.