Dr Greg Walsh

Senior Lecturer
BSc / LLB, LLM, PhD

Email: greg.walsh@nd.edu.au
Phone: 02 8204 4304

  • Biography

    Greg Walsh was educated at The Australian National University where he completed a combined Bachelor of Laws/Science degree and a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice. He completed a Master of Laws degree at the University of Sydney and a Doctor of Philosophy degree at Curtin University. He has lectured at Western Sydney University and The University of New South Wales. Greg has worked in various legal roles in Australia and overseas, including working for the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, the medical negligence department of Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

  • Teaching areas

    Human Rights Law
    Torts
    Medical Law
    Contemporary Legal Issues
    Bioethics & The Law

  • Research expertise and supervision

    Human Rights Law
    Torts
    Medical Law
    Law & Religion

  • Books

    • Sarah Withnall and Greg Walsh, Torts (LexisNexis Butterworths, 4th ed, 2021)
    • Greg Walsh, ‘Anti-Discrimination Legislation and Regulation of Employment Decisions of Religious Schools in Australia’ in W Cole Durham Jr and Donlu Thayer (eds) Religion and Equality: Law in Conflict (Routledge, 2016) 69-89
    • Greg Walsh, Religious Schools and Discrimination Law (Central Press, 2015)

  • Journal articles and proceedings

  • Conference papers

    • 10 July 2019 – Presentation on ‘Vilification Laws and the Protection of Free Speech’ at the ‘Dignity, Diversity, Democracy’ Conference’, Annual Congress of the International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Lucerne, Switzerland
    • 13 September 2018 - Presentation on ‘Same-Sex Marriage and Conscientious Objection’ at the International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies ‘The Fifth ICLARS Conference - Living Together in Diversity: Strategies from Law and Religion’ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • 20 October 2017 - Presentation on ‘Same-Sex Marriage and Conscientious Objection’ at the Second Annual Religious Liberty Conference at The University of Notre Dame Australia in Sydney, Australia
    • 13 August 2017 - Presentation on ‘Same-Sex Marriage and Conscientious Objection’ at the Australian Family Association Conference in Canberra, Australia
    • 26 July 2016 – Presentation on ‘Religious Liberty in Australia’ at the G20 Interfaith Summit at Kerala, India
    • 25 September 2015 - Presentation on ‘The Regulation of the Employment Decisions of Religious Schools’ at the Freedom for Faith Conference at the University of Newcastle
    • 6 August 2015 – Presentation on ‘The Regulation of the Employment Decisions of Religious Schools’ at the Fourth East Asian Law and Society Conference held at Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan)
    • 10 October 2014 – Presentation on ‘The Regulation of the Employment Decisions of Religious Schools’ at the Annual Academic Conference at the Curtin University
    • 2 July 2014 – Presentation on ‘The Regulation of the Employment Decisions of Religious Schools’ at ‘Faith Governance and Public Policy: The Challenge of Religious and Cultural Diversity’ Conference organised by the Von Hugel Institute and held at The University of Cambridge
    • 23 August 2013 – Presentation at International Consortium on Law and Religion Studies Conference held at the University of Virginia on the topic ‘Anti-Discrimination Legislation and the Appropriate Regulation of the Employment Decisions of Religious Schools’
    • 1 November 2012 – Presentation at the University of Sydney Postgraduate Conference on the topic ‘The Regulation of Religious Schools Under Anti-Discrimination Legislation’
    • 24 October 2012 – Presentation at the University of Notre Dame Australia on the topic ‘The Regulation of Religious Schools Under Anti-Discrimination Legislation’
    • 31 October 2009 - Presentation at the University of Sydney Postgraduate Conference on the topic ‘Private Educational Authorities and the Limited Operation of the Anti-Discrimination Act’
    • 15 August 2009 - Presentation at the Cultural and Religious Freedom under a Bill of Rights Conference on the topic ‘The Appropriate Operation of Discrimination Provisions in a Commonwealth Charter of Rights in Relation to the Operation of Religious Schools’
    • 11 June 2009 - Presentation at the Australian National University Postgraduate Conference on the topic ‘Private Educational Authorities and the Limited Operation of the Anti-Discrimination Act’
    • 31 October 2008 – Presentation at the University of Sydney Postgraduate Conference on the topic ‘Private Educational Authorities and the Limited Operation of the Anti-Discrimination Act’

  • Other publications

  • Media appearances

  • Professional affiliations

    Member of the Law Society of New South Wales and the Law Council of Australia - International Law Section.