| George Williams is the Anthony Mason Professor and Director of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law at the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales. He has worked at the Australian National University, Blake Dawson Waldron and as Associate to Justice McHugh of the High Court.
He is an author of 13 books including A Charter of Rights for Australia, What Price Security? Taking Stock of Australia's Anti-Terror Laws, No Country is an Island: Australia and International Law and Australian Constitutional Law and Theory, and is an editor of a further 8 books including The Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia.
He also practises as a barrister and has appeared in the High Court of Australia in cases such as Lange v Australian Broadcasting Corporation (freedom of speech), the Hindmarsh Island Bridge Case (freedom from racial discrimination) and Plaintiff S157/2002 v Commonwealth (review of government action and the rule of law) and in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal of Fiji, including in Republic of Fiji v Prasad (legality of the 2000 coup).
George is a media commentator on legal issues and writes for all major Australian newspapers. He chaired the Victorian Human Rights Consultation Committee that recommended that Victoria enact a Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities, which occurred in July 2006.
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