Dr Stephen Thomson is an Associate Professor at the ANU College of Law, The Australian National University, where he is also the General Editor of the Federal Law Review. Previously he was an Associate Professor and Director of Research Postgraduate Programmes at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong, and an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh (LL.B., LL.M., Ph.D., Dip.L.P.), and held a visiting faculty appointment as a Herbert Smith Freehills Visitor at the University of Cambridge.
Dr Thomson's areas of expertise are in public law, including administrative law, constitutional law and human rights, both domestic and comparative. His recent work includes multiple contributions on the legal and human rights aspects of COVID-19 regulations, including peer-reviewed papers in interdisciplinary, public health and science journals. His analysis and recommendations submitted to the UK House of Lords Constitution Committee were adopted in its Report on COVID-19 and the Use and Scrutiny of Emergency Powers. He is also the Rapporteur for the Hong Kong SAR on The Oxford Compendium of National Legal Responses to COVID-19 project run by University College London, King's College London and the Max Planck Institute of Comparative Public Law and International Law.
Dr Thomson is the author of Administrative Law in Hong Kong (Cambridge University Press, 2018, with a foreword by Hon. Andrew Li) and The Nobile Officium (Avizandum / Edinburgh University Press, 2015, with a foreword by Rt. Hon. The Lord Hope of Craighead), co-editor of Administrative Tribunals in the Common Law World (Hart Publishing, forthcoming 2024, with a foreword by Rt. Hon. Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill), co-author of the Administrative Law (Reissue) in The Laws of Scotland: The Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia (the most authoritative reference work on Scots law), and author of articles in a range of leading journals including the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Public Law, Melbourne University Law Review, Journal of Law and the Biosciences and Harvard Journal of Law and Technology.
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