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 of Law since 1996, and a solicitor in private practice since 1978. Along with several other positions he was the Australasian Liaison Officer for the Organising Committee of the IBA Conference in 2017.

Dip Law (SAB); LLM (UTS), FCL

Justice Benjamin was a Judge of the Family Court of Australia from August 2005 to May 2021; based in the Hobart Registry of that Court. He was also a Presidential Member of the Australian Administrative Appeals Tribunal and is currently undertaking a commission of inquiry in Tasmania.

In 2015 Robert Benjamin 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 made a Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to the judicial and to the law, legal education, mediation, arbitration and to professional standards.

Former Justice Benjamin has a deep interest in legal education. He is involved in legal training through the University of Tasmania and the Tasmanian legal practice course. At one time he chaired the Education Committee of the Family Court and was for many years a member of the organising committee for the Judges Orientation Course operated under the auspices of the National Judicial College.

Prior to appointment, to the family court of Australia Benjamin was in private practice. for thirty years, almost exclusively in family law. In 2003, Robert Benjamin was President of the Law Society New South Wales and had chaired its Family Law Committee for many years.

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 is Professor of Commercial Law and Director of Teaching and Learning at the TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland. He is the author of a number of monographs and casebooks, numerous journal articles, and has edited four collections of scholarly essays.

Professor Grantham is also a member of the editorial boards of 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 & Principal of the College of Law. He is a legal practitioner and academic of approx 40 years standing and established the IPLS program in New Zealand and a similar program for PLT students in Malaysia. Mr Carter has been Principal of the College of Law for over 25 years.