Adjunct Professor Mark Lunney

Biography

Mark Lunney is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Law at the University of New England, Armidale, Australia and a Professor at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London. He is a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Laws, University College London. He trained as a solicitor in Brisbane before obtaining an LLM from the University of Cambridge. Between 1991-2003 he was a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader at the School of Law, King's College London. He was an Associate Professor in the School of Law at the University of New England between 2003-2011 and from 2011-2012 he was a Professor and Director of Research at the ANU College of Law. His research interests are the law of tort and the history of the common law and legal profession. He has published extensively on the law of torts in both Australia and the United Kingdom (see, for example, Barker, Cane, Lunney & Trindade, The Law of Torts in Australia (5th edn, 2012) and Lunney & Oliphant, Tort Law: Text and Materials (5th edn, 2013). He is also a contributing editor to the practitioners’ reference work Tort Law (3rd edn, 2015, Butterworths Common Law Series). He is the inaugural Australian member, and a member of the Executive Committee, of the World Tort Law Society, Junior Vice-President and Council member of the Francis Forbes Society for Australian Legal History, a Fellow of the Australian Centre for Private Law at the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, a member of the European Centre for Tort and Insurance Law, an International Associate of the Brazilian Institute on Tort Law, and an Adjunct Research Fellow of the Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture. In 2018 he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.