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Professor the Honourable William Gummow AC was Professor of Law at Sydney University and the Australian National University and was formerly a Judge of the High Court of Australia (1995-2012) and of the Federal Court of Australia (1986-1995). Sadly he passed away on 16 September 2026.

“Vale Bill Gummow, law’s Renaissance man” by Dr Michael Douglas, Brief, 18 September 2026

“Professor Gummow changed how I thought about the law and how I thought about what a life in the law could be. He did that, in part, by his own example.

In the recent Federation Press collection, Method, History and Doctrine: Selected Papers of William Gummow, editor Aryan Mohseni observed that ‘[w]hen Gummow put pen to paper – and it was so often pen and paper – he wrote “not from the single perspective of solicitor, barrister, or teacher, but as one who has been all of these”’. He did it all at an exceptional standard.” To read the full article visit

https://briefonline.com.au/2026/09/18/vale-bill-gummow-laws-renaissance-man/

“Vale the Honourable William Gummow AC 1942 – 2026” by the Honourable Justice Mark Leeming, 17 September 2026

“He was a man of courage and intellectual integrity who left an immense legacy, not only in his jurisprudence and writings, but in the legal minds he shaped and sharpened through decades of teaching.” To read the full article visit

https://inbrief.nswbar.asn.au/posts/b1d8ece4fac042e88d98752e3f0f2996/attachment/Vale.pdf