Dr Caitlin Goss is a Senior Lecturer in the TC Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland, where she also serves as the Centre Director of the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law. She teaches in the areas of Law of Evidence, Constitutional Law, and Public International Law. Goss earned her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the University of Queensland. She then pursued postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford, obtaining a Bachelor of Civil Law, an MPhil in Law, and a DPhil in comparative constitutional law. These studies were supported by a Rhodes Scholarship and a Commemorative Fellowship from the Australian Federation of University Women-Queensland.

Goss's professional experience includes serving as a Judge's Associate to the Honourable Chief Justice Catherine Holmes on the Queensland Court of Appeal, working as a solicitor, and interning at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. At Oxford, she acted as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in Public International Law and co-coached the Oxford Jessup International Moot team. Her research focuses on comparative constitutional law, constitutional theory, international law, and the law of evidence. Key publications include "History and historical facts in constitutional law" in Facts in Public Law Adjudication (2023), "Common knowledge in the common law: challenges in domestic violence cases" in Current Issues in Criminal Justice (2020), "Interim Constitutions and the Invisible Constitution" in The Invisible Constitution in Comparative Perspective (2018), and co-authorship of "Prosecution of rape and sexual assault in Queensland: report on a pilot study" (2017). She has supervised PhD theses on topics such as constitutional transformations in South Sudan and trauma-informed non-fatal strangulation trials. Additionally, she directed the research project "The Nature of Interim Constitutions: A Comparative Analysis" and serves as a State Secretary for Rhodes Scholarships in Queensland.

Professional Email: c.goss@law.uq.edu.au