Dr Lorne Neudorf is an Associate Professor in Law at the University of Adelaide.  He is also a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada (Barrister and Solicitor) and Adjunct Professor at Robson Hall, Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba.

Dr Neudorf holds a Doctorate in 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 for his doctoral work.  Dr Neudorf also holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Victoria and a Masters of Law degree from McGill University.  He also practised as an Associate Lawyer at the Toronto office of one of Canada's premier business law firms.

Prior to his appointment at the University of Adelaide, Dr Neudorf held an Associate Professorship and was Founding Faculty in the Faculty of Law at Thompson Rivers University, the first new law school in Canada in more than 30 years.  Dr Neudorf also previously taught English Administrative Law at six colleges of the University of Cambridge and lectured in English common law at Pembroke and King's colleges of the University of Cambridge.  He has been awarded five teaching excellence prizes from law students, including both by first year and upper year students.

Dr Neudorf has published or edited more than 45 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.  His work has been cited in books and articles by comparative and public law scholars and others including the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers.  It has also been introduced in evidence before a parliamentary committee of the House of Lords. Dr Neudorf is a co-founder and an Editor in Chief of the Canadian Journal of Comparative and Contemporary Law, which publishes cutting-edge comparative scholarship on thematic legal issues.  He was formerly Managing Editor of the Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law and was responsible for the production of the innovative UK Supreme Court Yearbook.  Dr Neudorf is a member of the advisory boards of the Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law and the UBC International Law Journal.

Dr Neudorf has presented his research at leading law schools including Cambridge, Yale, Stanford, the National University of Singapore, New York University, and Humboldt University.  He has been a visiting scholar at the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany and Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.  In 2015, Dr Neudorf was elected as an Associate Member of the American Society of Comparative Law.

Dr Neudorf's research often takes a comparative perspective and is principally focused on public law, especially judicial review and statutory interpretation, legal institutions, and government.  He is presently undertaking a two-year research study on the parliamentary supervision of executive lawmaking in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, funded by a major grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.