BA LLB (Sydney); LLM (Sydney); Grad Cert in University Teaching and Learning (CSU); Solicitor of the Supreme Court of NSW

Lewis Patrick is Chief Academic Officer and Deputy CEO of the College. He has been a Lecturer at the College since 1996 and a solicitor in private practice since 1978. He is a member of the Academic and Professional Development Committee of the International Bar Association.

Dip Law (SAB); LLM (UTS); Hone LLM (COL); FCL; Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Courts of NSW and Tasmania

Robert Benjamin was one of the Commissioners constituting the Tasmanian Commission of Inquiry into the Tasmanian Government’s Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Settings reporting in 2023. He is a former Justice of the Family Court of Australia (2005-2021), Presidential Member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (2005-2020) and for 30 years practiced as a family lawyer.

Robert is a former President of the Law Society of NSW, Chair of the College of Law, Chair of the Education Committee of the Family Court and was a member of the organising committee for the Judges Orientation Course operated under the auspices of the National Judicial College. Robert was involved in legal training through the University of Tasmania and the Tasmanian legal practice course and previously, on behalf of the Federal Government, worked with Zimbabwean judges, academics and women’s groups to develop and write a Family Law Act for the Zimbabwe Parliament and instructed Japanese and Australian mediators in ADR for Hague Abductions Cases in Japan.

In 2015, Robert was awarded an honorary Master’s degree from the College of Law and was made an Honorary Fellow of the College of Law. He was appointed Senior Counsel in May 2022.

Cert Teaching (Balmain Teachers College); Adv Dip Education (Bristol); M Ed (Bristol); PhD (Aston)

Professor Meyenn is one of Australia’s foremost university educators, having held such positions as Dean of the Faculty of Education at Charles Sturt University, President of the Australian Association for Research in Education and Provost CSU-Ontario. He also served on a number of federal and state education advisory boards.

LLM (Hons) (Auckland), BCL (Oxford), LLD (Queensland) Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand

Professor Grantham holds the position of Professor of Commercial Law and serves as the Director of Teaching and Learning at the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland. His academic contributions are extensive, comprising multiple monographs and casebooks, a wide array of journal articles, and the editing of multiple scholarly essay collections addressing matters of private and corporate law. He further lends his expertise as a member of the editorial boards for The Company Lawyer and the Journal of Corporate Law Studies and is the Australian editor of the Journal of Business Law.

BA LLB (Macq); Solicitor of the Supreme Court of NSW

Jodie Masson is the managing partner of an independent specialist commercial property law firm. Her experience includes acquisitions, sales, leasing, agency law, project documentation and general property law advice. Jodie was made a fellow member of the Australian Property Institute as part of the API’s Property Leaders’ Program in 2011. She was selected by her peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers® in Australia in the practice area of Real Property Law from 2014 to 2018 and has been listed in Doyle’s Guide as a recommended property lawyer from 2016 to 2018.

BA LLB (Sydney); MBA (Melb); Solicitor of the Supreme Court of NSW

Neville Carter is the CEO and Principal of The College of Law. He is a legal practitioner and academic of over 40 years standing and has been Principal of the College for over 25 years. Mr Carter is also a Director of the College of Law New Zealand Limited, COL Hold Co Pty Limited, College of Legal Practice Limited and COL SIN Private Limited. His previous positions include National Director, Institute of Professional Legal Studies, New Zealand; Associate Professor and Head of School of Legal Practice, UTS; Project Lead Professional Practice, Advanced Diploma in Law (ADIL) University of Technology (MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia); and partner in a three partner Sydney law firm. He is also a former Chairman of the Australasian Professional Legal Education Council, Director of the Australasian Legal Practice Management Association and an Evaluator for the Australian Business Excellence Awards.