Geoff Lindell is a Professorial Fellow of the University of Melbourne and also holds appointments as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Adelaide University and the Australian National University. He joined the Melbourne University Law School in 1994 and he retired from full-time teaching in early 2002. Since that time he has continued to research and write, in addition to being available to undertake some sessional teaching and consulting. Throughout his long career he has taught and published widely in the field of Australian constitutional and public law, including the publication, as editor, Future Directions in Australian Constitutional Law (1994), senior co - editor of Parliament: The Vision in Hindsight (2001 with R Bennett) and also as co - author of Sawer's Australian Constitutional Cases (4th ed., 1982 with Professor L Zines).
Geoff 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 joining the Australian National University Law School in 1975, where he taught until the end of 1993, he held a senior position in the Commonwealth Attorney - General's Department and has frequently since acted as a consultant to the same Department. He 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 has been the Secretary of the newly formed Australian Association of Constitutional Law since its inception in 1998. He also co - authored the case book, Conflict of Laws: Commentaries and Materials (1997) (with Professors Martin Davies and Sam Ricketson).
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Editorial Panel Member, Constitutional Law and Policy Review, Prospect Media Ltd, NSW
Member of the Board of Advisors, Public Law Review, Law Book Company, North Ryde, NSW
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