Rate My Professor Michael Quinlan

Assuming academic leadership roles from 2013, Quinlan served as Dean of the School of Law, Sydney, within the Law faculty. He is Vice President of the St Thomas More Society, a board member of Freedom For Faith, a member of the Legal Profession Admissions Board, and an advisory board member of the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney’s Anti-Slavery Taskforce. His academic interests include religious freedom, law and religion, bioethics, jurisprudence, and insolvency law. Prominent publications feature his editorship of Religious Freedom in Australia – a new Terra Nullius? (Shepherd Street Press, 2019, with Iain T. Benson and A. Keith Thompson) and the forthcoming Religious Freedom in Australia – the challenge of inclusion? (2020). Key chapters encompass “An unholy patchwork quilt: The inadequacy of protections of freedom of religion in Australia” (2019) and “Born (Again) This Way: Why The Inherent Nature of Religiosity Requires a New Approach to Australia’s Discrimination Laws” (2018). Notable journal articles include “Marriage, Tradition, Multiculturalism and the Accommodation of Difference in Australia” (2016, The University of Notre Dame Australia Law Review), “Enforcing Conformity: Criminalising Religiously Inspired Acts” (2019, Australian Law Journal), “Christianity and the law: Trial separation or acrimonious divorce?” (2018, Western Australian Jurist), and “Such is Life: Euthanasia and capital punishment in Australia” (2016, Solidarity: The Journal of Catholic Social Thought and Secular Ethics). In insolvency, he edited Allens Arthur Robinson Directors' Duties During Insolvency (Thomson LBC, 2nd ed., 2006). Quinlan earned recognition as a leading Australian insurance and reinsurance lawyer (Euromoney Guide, 2004) and insolvency/restructuring practitioner (Chambers Global/Asia Pacific, Band 1-3, 2003-2011). His influence includes editorial contributions as co-editor of INSOL World (2004/2005) and service on international insolvency committees.