Dr Peter Gerangelos
Profile
Degrees
BA (Hons) LLB Syd; LLM, PhD UNSW
Professional Affiliations
Solicitor, Supreme Court of New South Wales
Roll of Legal Practitioners, High Court of Australia
Courses Taught
- Federal Constitutional Law
- Advanced Constitutional Law
- Litigation
- Federal Jurisdiction
Brief Biographical Detail
Prior to joining Sydney Law School, Peter Gerangelos had extensive experience in practice as legal counsel to the Commonwealth, holding the position of Principal Solicitor in the Office of the Australian Government Solicitor. In addition, he lectured in Constitutional Law, Public International Law, and Administrative Law. His experience includes a range of civil and public law litigation in the superior courts and the conduct of large civil prosecutions on behalf of the Commonwealth relating to revenue and commercial issues. He led the litigation team which successfully developed and implemented project management methodologies for the Australian Government Solicitor in its conduct of large and complex litigation; and was a representative of that Office on the inter-agency Liaison Committee with representatives from the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions and the Australian Securities Commission.
He is a recipient of the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Post-Graduate Award which enabled him to undertake his doctoral research in comparative constitutional law and to spend the initial period of his canditature at Oriel College, Oxford. It is in this area that he maintains his primary research interest, and has published, with particular focus on the separation of powers, judicial power and the integrity of the judicial process, constitutional limitations and the history of constitutionalism. He is a member of the Australian Association of Constitutional Law.
In 2005, he was Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.
Publications
Book Chapters
- Gerangelos, P A, “State Constitutional Law", in Winterton, Lee, Glass and Thomson Australian Federal Constitutional Law (2nd ed 2007).
- Gerangelos, P A, “McGinty v Western Australia: Electoral Equality and the Demise of the ‘Implied Rights Venture' ”, in G Winterton (ed) State Constitutional Landmarks (2006).
Journal articles
- Gerangelos, P A, 'The Separation of Powers and Legislative Interference in Pending Cases' (2008) 30(1) Sydney Law Review 61-94
- Gerangelos, P A, 'The Decisional Independence of the Chapter III Courts and Constitutional Limitations on Legislative Power: Notes from the United States' (2005) 33 Federal Law Review 391
- Gerangelos, P A, 'Interpretational Methodology in Separation of Powers Jurisprudence: The formalist/functionalist debate' (2005) 8(1) Constitutional Law and Policy Review 1
- Gerangelos, P A, 'The Separation of Powers and Legislative Interference with Judicial Functions in Pending Cases' (2002) 30(1) Federal Law Review 1-37
Conference Papers
- Gerangelos, P A, “Legislative Intervention in Pending Cases”, with commentary by Sir Anthony Mason, Constitutional Fundamentals and Judicial Power, 2004 Annual Conference of the Australian Association of Constitutional Law held under the auspices of University of Sydney Law School.
