John Devereux is Professor of Law at the University of Queensland. A Rhodes Scholar, he has degrees in Arts and Law from the University of Queensland, and a Doctor of Philosophy of Law undertaken at Magdalen College, Oxford. Devereux has been a Member of the Health Quality and Complaints Commission, Queensland, a Law Refrom Commissioner for Queensland, and a Member of the Social Security Appeals Tribunal. He currently serves as a Member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. He is the author of over ninety notes, articles, reports, book chapters and books, and his writings have been cited by Superior Courts.