Dr Lorne Neudorf

Juris Doctor (Victoria); LLM (McGill); PhD (Cambridge)

Dr 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 Upper Canada (Barrister & Solicitor) and an Adjunct Professor at Robson Hall, Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba.

Dr Neudorf 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. Dr Neudorf holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Victoria and a Masters of Law from McGill University. He also practised as an Associate Lawyer at the Toronto office of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, one of Canada's premier business law firms.

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

Dr Neudorf has published or edited a number of 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, Dr Neudorf 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 2020-21.

Dr Neudorf's research has been cited in books and articles by comparative and public law scholars and others including the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, and former Supreme Court of Canada Justice Thomas Cromwell. It has also been cited in evidence before the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee of the UK Parliament.

Dr Neudorf 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 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 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 also appeared as an expert witness before the Standing Joint Committee for the Scrutiny of Regulations in the Canadian Parliament, advocating reform to strengthen the parliamentary scrutiny of executive lawmaking. Dr Neudorf has been a visiting scholar at the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany, 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.

Dr Neudorf has been awarded more than $250,000 through various fellowships and grants to support his legal research. His research often takes a comparative perspective and is principally focused on public law, especially judicial review and statutory interpretation, legal institutions, and government and governance. He is presently undertaking a multi-year study on the parliamentary supervision of executive lawmaking in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, a project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.