Associate Professor Lorne Neudorf

JD (Victoria); LLM (McGill); PhD (Cambridge); FRSA

Lorne Neudorf is the Deputy Dean of Law and an Associate Professor in Law at Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide. He is a member of the Law Society of Ontario, Canada (Barrister & Solicitor).

Lorne holds a Doctor of Philosophy in the field of comparative law from the University of Cambridge. During his doctoral studies, he was twice awarded the Sir James Lougheed Award of Distinction. Lorne holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Victoria and a Masters of Law from McGill University. He practised as an Associate Lawyer at the Toronto office of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, a leading Canadian law firm.

Lorne's research takes a comparative perspective and focuses on public law, including judicial review, legislation, delegation, the lawmaking process, interpretation, institutions and their design, and questions relating to government.

Before arriving in Adelaide, Lorne held an Associate Professorship as Founding Faculty in the Faculty of Law at Thompson Rivers University, helping to establish the first new law school in Canada in more than 30 years. He also taught Administrative Law at six colleges of the University of Cambridge and lectured in common law at Pembroke and King's colleges. Lorne has been awarded teaching excellence prizes by law students, including both by first year and upper year students.

Lorne has published and edited scholarly collections, journal articles, case comments, book chapters, book reviews, and newspaper op-eds. In 2017, he published a monograph with Springer entitled The Dynamics of Judicial Independence: A Comparative Study of Courts in Malaysia and Pakistan.  In 2018, Lorne was commissioned by Hart/Bloomsbury as the General Editor of a new global book series examining the rule of law in context (with Gabrielle Appleby). The first titles in the series are expected to be published in 2021. Lorne is the co-founder and Editor in Chief of the Canadian Journal of Comparative and Contemporary Law (with C. Hunt and R. Diab), which publishes cutting-edge comparative scholarship on topical legal themes. He was formerly the Managing Editor of the Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law and produced the innovative UK Supreme Court Yearbook for 2010-11.

In terms of impact, Lorne's work has been discussed in scholarly books, articles and parliamentary committee reports. It has been cited in rulings of the Supreme Court of Canada and the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, and referred to by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers.

Lorne has presented his research at top law schools including those at Cambridge, Oxford, Yale, Stanford, the National University of Singapore, Hong Kong University, New York University, and Humboldt University. He has been invited to give evidence before parliamentary committees in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. He has been a visiting scholar at the Australian National University College of Law, the Faculty of Law at Victoria University of Wellington, the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge, the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, and the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London. In 2015, he was elected as an Associate Member of the American Society of Comparative Law. He has also been engaged by governments and tribunals for his legal expertise.

Lorne has been awarded more than $250,000 through research fellowships and grants. He is presently undertaking a multi-year study on the parliamentary supervision of delegated legislation in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, a project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. In early 2020, Lorne was a visiting scholar at New York University School of Law in connection with this project.