Professor Greg Weeks
Areas of expertise
- Administrative Law 180103
- Tort Law 180126
- Law And Legal Studies Not Elsewhere Classified 189999
Research interests
Greg's research interests are in judicial review and issues in public law generally, state liability, and public and private law remedies against public authorities. He supervises undergraduate research theses and postgraduate research in these, and related, fields.
Biography
Greg Weeks is a Professor in the ANU College of Law. He holds undergraduate degrees in Arts (History) from the University of Sydney and Law from UNSW, and a PhD from UNSW. Prior to embarking on an academic career, Greg taught at UTS, the University of Sydney and for six years in the UNSW Faculty of Law. He is widely recognised as an expert in administrative law and, in addition to editing two collections of essays, is an author of many publications in his areas of expertise, including a monograph entitled Soft Law and Public Authorities: Remedies and Reform (Hart Publishing, 2016). He is the co-author (with Mark Aronson and Matthew Groves) of the leading Australian administrative law text, Judicial Review of Administrative Action and Government Liability (Thomson Reuters, 6th ed, 2017 and 7th ed, 2022) and has co-written (with Janina Boughey and Ellen Rock) Government Liability: Principles and Remedies (LexisNexis Australia, 2019).