Richard Garnett has an LLM from Harvard University where he was a Fulbright and Lionel Murphy scholar. Prior to his appointment at the University of Melbourne in 2001, Richard was a senior lecturer at Monash University and before that a solicitor practising commercial litigation and arbitration at Linklaters in London. Since 2004 he has been a consultant and expert in the international dispute resolution focus group at Freehills Solicitors.
Other positions Richard has held include: Member of the Australian Government delegation of experts to the Hague Conference on Private International Law (Jurisdiction and Judgments Convention), Director of the Australian Centre of International Commercial Arbitration, Member of the E-Commerce Committee, Law Council of Australia, Consultant to the Australian Law Reform Commission on the Commonwealth Judiciary Act and Consultant to the European Commission on private international law and electronic commerce. Richard's major research interests are in the areas of conflict of laws, international dispute resolution and electronic commerce.
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