Margaret Allars

Professor Margaret Allars holds a personal chair as Professor of Law in the University of Sydney Law School with a fractional appointment since 2002. She completed a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws (Honours) at the University of Sydney in 1976 and 1978, earning the University Medal with her LLB, and obtained a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Oxford. Admitted to the New South Wales Bar in 2001, she was appointed Senior Counsel in 2013 and practices at Eleven Wentworth Chambers. Her practice areas have been recognized in Best Lawyers Australia for Government Practice, Immigration Law, and Litigation in 2016 and 2020. Allars serves as Program Director for Administrative Law and teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, and Government Regulation and Health Policy.

Margaret Allars specializes in administrative law, authoring key texts including Introduction to Australian Administrative Law (Butterworths, Sydney, 1990), Australian Administrative Law: Cases and Commentary (Butterworths, 1997), and Australian Administrative Law (LexisNexis, latest editions). Notable recent publications encompass Automated Decision-Making and Review of Administrative Decisions (Georgia Law Review, 2024) and Private Law Remedies and Public Law Standards: An Awkward Statutory Intrusion into Tort Liability of Public Authorities (FIU Law Review, 2020). She chairs the Administrative Review Council with a term from December 2024 to December 2029 and is a member of the Administrative Law Committee, Federal Litigation Section, Law Council of Australia. Allars has contributed to institutional roles in Sydney Health Law and conducted a 1994 federal government inquiry into the collection, manufacture, and distribution of pituitary hormones. Her scholarship addresses judicial review, tribunal fairness, public law standards, and automated decision-making accountability.

Professional Email: margaret.allars@sydney.edu.au