Andrew Kenyon

Professor Andrew Kenyon is a Professor in Melbourne Law School at the University of Melbourne and Associate Dean (Academic Staffing). He earned a Bachelor of Laws with first class honours from the University of Melbourne in 1994, a PhD in law from the same institution in 2002, and an LLM with distinction from the University of London in 1997, for which he received the Menzies Memorial Scholarship in Law. Admitted as a legal practitioner to the Victorian Supreme Court in 1995, he served as a research fellow before joining Melbourne Law School as an academic in 2002. He has held visiting professor positions at the University of British Columbia, London School of Economics, Queen Mary University of London, and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Kenyon specializes in comparative media law and democracy, researching freedom of expression, defamation, privacy, and data protection. His scholarship draws on legal doctrine, media studies, and political philosophy, including empirical research on defamation law, litigation, and news production practices in Australia, the UK, US, Malaysia, and Singapore. He has secured multiple Australian Research Council Discovery and Linkage projects, such as Defamation Law in Context: Australian and US News Production Practices and Public Debate (2003-2006). Notable publications include the monograph Democracy of Expression: Positive Free Speech and Law (Cambridge University Press, 2021). He edited the Media & Arts Law Review from 1999 to 2012 and serves as joint editor of the Journal of Media Law. Leadership roles encompass Director of the Centre for Media and Communications Law (2004-2018), Deputy Dean of Melbourne Law School (2010-2013), President of the University of Melbourne Academic Board (2021-2022), Vice-President and Deputy Vice-President of the Academic Board previously, and Chair of the Libraries and Academic Resources Committee. A member of the Melbourne Media Law Network, he is an Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society.

Professional Email: a.kenyon@unimelb.edu.au