Rate My Professor Greg Walsh

Senior Lecturer Greg Walsh serves in the School of Law at the University of Notre Dame Australia’s Sydney campus. He earned a combined Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Laws (BSc/LLB) and a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from The Australian National University. He further obtained a Master of Laws (LLM) from the University of Sydney and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from Curtin University. Admitted to practice as a solicitor in New South Wales and Western Australia, Walsh has held various legal positions, including roles at 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. Before joining Notre Dame, he lectured at Western Sydney University and the University of New South Wales.

Walsh teaches courses such as Human Rights Law, Torts, Medical Law, Contemporary Legal Issues, and Bioethics & The Law. His research specializations encompass human rights law, torts, medical law, and law and religion, with particular focus on religious liberty, discrimination in religious schools, and conscientious objection. Notable publications include the co-authored textbook Torts (LexisNexis Butterworths, 4th ed, 2021) with Sarah Withnall; Religious Schools and Discrimination Law (Central Press, 2015); a chapter ‘Anti-Discrimination Legislation and Regulation of Employment Decisions of Religious Schools in Australia’ in Religion and Equality: Law in Conflict (Routledge, 2016); and peer-reviewed articles like ‘The Right to Equality and the Employment Decisions of Religious Schools’ (2014) 16 University of Notre Dame Australia Law Review 107, ‘Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty’ (2017) 35(2) University of Tasmania Law Review 106, and ‘The Merits of the Inherent Requirement Test for Regulating the Employment Decisions of Religious Schools Under Anti-Discrimination Legislation’ (2015) 6 Western Australian Jurist 34. He has delivered numerous conference papers internationally, including at the University of Cambridge, Waseda University in Tokyo, and the International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies in the United States and Brazil. Walsh has also contributed opinion pieces to outlets such as The Conversation, Quadrant, MercatorNet, and The Sydney Morning Herald on topics related to religious freedom and discrimination law.