Simon Jeffrey PHILIPS
BA, LLB (Hon) Syd

I am a graduate of the University of Sydney in both Arts and Law and have practised as a barrister at the commercial bar in Sydney since 2002. Prior to coming to the bar, I was a practising solicitor for six years. Throughout my time as a student at and graduate of the University, I have been heavily involved in the administration and development of sport at the University and in particular soccer football. I have been very actively involved in the development and management of Sydney University Soccer Football Club for 20 years but have also assisted Sydney University Sport in the development of sport generally at the University. I received a gold medal award for sports administration in 1999 and continue to play soccer for the University on a weekly basis. I have been a member of the Alumni Council since 2007 and have aimed to bring a sporting focus to issues considered by Council. I am married to another graduate of the University (Law and Economics), have two young children and live in an inner eastern suburb of Sydney.

• Recipient of Gold award for services to sport (soccer) at the University of Sydney 1999
• Member, Education Committee of Australian Insurance Law Association (AILA) 2001-present
• Club Secretary (and many other positions), Sydney University Soccer Football Club 1993-present
• Member, Alumni Council, University of Sydney 2007-present

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Maurice EVANS
SJD Syd, MPhil Edin, BLaws UTS, BArch Melb

Dr Maurice Evans specialises in commercial, property, construction, valuation, environmental, planning, heritage and related law reflecting his unique expertise as a barrister with professional qualifications and experience as an architect, planner, academic and lawyer. He has acted as principal advisor on numerous significant development and construction projects and is the author of many publications including the multi-award-winning text 'Principles of Environmental and Heritage Law'. Currently he continues to successfully advise and represent as lead Counsel numerous key government, institutional, corporate and private clients in matters in the NSW Supreme Court, Land and Environment Court and Court of Appeal.

• Barrister of the Supreme Court of NSW and High Court of Australia
• Legal Practitioner of the Supreme Court of NSW and Member of NSW Bar Association
• NSW Registered Architect and Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects


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Barbara MCDONALD
BA, LLB Syd, LLM University College London

Barbara McDonald is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, currently teaching tort and contract law. She is also a member of the Ross Parsons Centre of Commercial, Corporate and Taxation Law within the Faculty and Director of the Sydney Law School in Europe program.

She is a graduate of the University of Sydney in Arts and Law. After several years in the litigation department of a large Sydney law firm, with a break to complete a Master of Laws at University College London (1979-1980), she joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney as a part time lecturer in 1982. She took up a full time position in the Faculty in 1991. She was a Visiting Professor at University of Texas in Austin in 2000, teaching US Tort law. After many years as Director of Professional and External Relations for the Faculty, she was Pro-Dean from 2002-2004, with particular responsibility for staff and alumni relations. She served on the selection panel of the international design competition for the new law building and was closely involved in the design process.

She is the co-editor of a casebook on torts, and member of the editorial board of the Torts Law Journal. She is a contributing author to a textbook on principles of equity. She has written a number of articles on tort reform, published in the Commercial Law Quarterly, Sydney Law Review and the Australian Bar Review, and is shortly to publish a co-authored book on celebrity and the law.

Barbara is a consultant to Freehills and has a practising certificate as an academic barrister. She has maintained close links with the legal profession and is particularly interested in the law school maintaining those links in view of its move to main campus. She also has an interest in the broader intersection of law with other fields and maintaining links with law alumni working in the arts, commerce, medicine, government, media and the sciences.

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