Dr David Tomkins
law
Newcastle University
Australia
Biography
Dr David Tomkins is Australian lawyer with degrees in commerce (accounting) and law, and postgraduate qualifications in law from the United Kingdom and Germany. I am admitted as a legal practitioner of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. My doctoral thesis is in the field of comparative constitutional law, focusing on the limits to judicial power (non-justiciability) in US federal and English public law. Prior to undertaking postgraduate studies I worked in Sydney as a tipstaff and judge's associate to two judges in the Compensation Court and Dust Diseases Tribunal of New South Wales – work which regularly brought me to Newcastle. I subsequently spent a number of years working for various research and public policy institutes in Germany, the United States and New Zealand. Before joining the faculty at the University of Newcastle I was an academic visitor and research assistant at the University of Auckland and a tutor at the University of Sydney.
Research Interest
Legal Theory, Jurisprudence and Legal Interpretation
