Law Professor, University of Technology Sydney

Professor Sam Blay works at the University of Technology, Sydney in the Law Department. He is a former Dean of Law, University of Tasmania, Director of the Faculty's China Program and a part-time Member of the Refugee Review Tribunal. Professor Blay graduated as the first PhD in Law at the University of Tasmania in 1985 and has served as a UNDP consultant in Somalia and Vietnam. He has also worked as a consultant to the governments of Vanuatu, Nauru and more recently Laos and Sudan on self-determination and related international issues.

Sam has taught as a visiting professor at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and at the China University of Politics and Law in Beijing (2005). He is currently a Research Scholar at the Southwestern University of Political Science and Law, Chongqing in China. He has also been an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow (Max Planck Institute for International and Comparative Law in Heidelberg, Germany (1992-3; 2003) and maintains an active interest in academic exchange programs with leading German institutions.

Professor Blay is also co-editor of Public International Law, Australian Perspectives (OUP 2005) and co-author of Torts in Principle (LBC 2005).