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Michael Legg is a Professor in the Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW.

He specialises in complex litigation, including regulatory litigation and class actions. He also conducts research into the regulation of, and in innovation in, the legal profession.

He is the author of Case Management and Complex Civil Litigation (2011) published by Federation Press, author of Public and Private Enforcement of Securities Law (2022) published by Hart, co-author of Civil Procedure in New South Wales (4th ed 2020) and Corporate Misconduct & White-Collar Crime in Australia (2022) both published by Thomson Reuters, and co-author of Annotated Class Actions Legislation (2d ed 2018) published by LexisNexis.

His research has been cited in judgments from the Federal Court of Australia, Supreme Court of New South Wales, Supreme Court of Victoria and Supreme Court of New Zealand, and in law reform reports by the Australian Law Reform Commission, Productivity Commission, NSW Law Reform Commission and Victorian Law Reform Commission.

Michael has 20 years of experience as a legal practitioner having worked with leading Australian and US law firms. He is admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of NSW, Federal Court of Australia, High Court of Australia and in the State and Federal courts of New York.  He holds law degrees from UNSW (LLB), the University of California, Berkeley (LLM) and the University of Melbourne (PhD).

Michael is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and member of the Law Council of Australia’s Class Actions Committee.