George Williams (lawyer)

Professor George Williams AO
Williams pictured in 2005
Born	1969
Residence	Sydney
Nationality	Australian
Fields	Australian Constitutional Law
Institutions	University of New South Wales
Education	BEc/LLB (Hons); LLM; PhD
Alma mater	Macquarie University; University of New South Wales; Australian National University

George John Williams AO is an Australian academic specialising in Australian constitutional law and Dean of the Law Faculty at the University of New South Wales.

At UNSW he also holds the title of Anthony Mason Professor of Law and Scientia Professor. He is also an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow.

Williams is a public commentator on public law issues, and writes a regular column in the Sydney Morning Herald

Williams was born in Queenstown, a mining town in Tasmania, to father John Williams, an economic historian and unionist, and mother Shirley Murphy, an academic specialising in tax law at Macquarie University.

Williams' family moved to Sydney when he was a young child, and he attended St Ives High School.

Williams was educated at Macquarie University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Laws with first-class Honours. He also holds a Master of Laws from the University of New South Wales and in 2000 he completed a Doctor of Philosophy in law from the Australian National University.