George Williams

George Williams is the Anthony Mason Professor and Director of the Gilbert and Tobin Centre of Public Lawat the University of New South Wales. From 1995 to 2000, he worked at the Faculty of Law and Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University. In 1992, he was Associate to Justice Michael McHugh of the High Court. He has held visiting positions as the Laskin Professor of Public Law at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto and at the Human Rights Institute, Columbia University Law School, New York.

George also practises as a barrister and has appeared in High Court cases raising issues such as freedom of communication, freedom from racial discrimination and the separation of powers. In 2001 he appeared in the Court of Appeal of Fiji in Fiji v Prasad, in which the 1997 Fijian Constitution was upheld. He has been employed as a consultant by organisations including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, and the Federal Parliament.