Dr McIntyre is an Associate Professor of Law at UniSA: Justice & Society. He has a wide range of research and teaching experiences across the common law world. He has held teaching positions in Australia, Canada and the UK, and has practice experience in both Australia and the UK. Dr McIntyre was awarded his PhD in 2013 from the University of Cambridge. His thesis, entitled ‘The Nature of the Judicial Function’, (published as a monograph in 2019) sought to provide a comprehensive theoretical foundation for understanding the scope and limits of the judicial role.
Originally from South Australia, Dr McIntyre obtained his undergraduate degrees at Flinders University. He was admitted to practice in 2006, and subsequently worked at the SA Crown Solicitor’s Office (including  as Research Assistant to the Solicitor-General). Dr McIntyre has held teaching positions at Flinders University in South Australia; at Jesus College in Cambridge, UK; at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, Canada; and at Charles Darwin University, in the Northern Territory.
Dr McIntyre’s research focuses on judicial studies and judicial theory. This work includes the exposition and examination of primary concepts – understanding the nature of the judicial function, judicial decision making methodology, and derivative concepts of independence, impartiality and accountability - and the exploration of the implications concepts in concrete situations. Current themes include such issues as:

access to justice; 
delay and civil procedure reform; 
judicial dissent; 
intra-court collegiality;
judicial performance evaluation;
accountability for international arbitral tribunals.

In the last decade his research has increasingly focused on issues of legal literacy and civics - and of cases where alienation from the law radicalises people. This work has seen a particular focus on 'Pseudolaw' and the 'Sovereign Citizen' movement.