Andrew Roberts

Professor Andrew Roberts is a Professor at Melbourne Law School, part of the Faculty of Law at the University of Melbourne, where he has been appointed since 2011. Prior to this, he held academic positions at the University of Warwick from 2005 to 2011 and the University of Leeds from 2003 to 2005. Roberts has also undertaken several visiting positions, including Visiting Senior Fellow in the School of Law at the University of New South Wales in 2009, Visiting Scholar in the Law School at City University London in 2013, Visiting Scholar in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam in 2013, Visiting Scholar in the School of Law at the University of Leeds in 2017, and Senior Research Fellow in the Structural Transformations of Privacy project at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main in 2016. His academic background includes an LLB in Law with American Law from the University of Nottingham, an MPhil in Criminology from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD from the University of Amsterdam, where his doctoral thesis developed a republican theory of privacy.

Roberts maintains diverse research interests in privacy, political theory, and criminal justice, with a long-standing focus on criminal evidence and procedure. His specializations encompass expert evidence, eyewitness identification, witness testimony, privacy in the context of intrusive technology in the criminal justice system, and republican political theory. He serves as an Associate Investigator at the University of Melbourne node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. Key publications include his authorship of Privacy in the Republic (Routledge, 2022), co-editorship of Privacy, Technology, and the Criminal Process (Routledge, 2023), editorship of Critical Perspectives on the Uniform Evidence Law (Federation Press, 2017), and co-authorship of Uniform Evidence, 4th edition (Thomson Reuters, 2025) and 3rd edition (Oxford University Press, 2019). Through these works and numerous articles, he examines the relationship between power and privacy, as well as the ways in which privacy is threatened and protected by criminal law and procedure.

Professional Email: arob@unimelb.edu.au