Law professor in the Faculty of Law and Justice at the University of New South Wales, where he directs the Program in Expertise, Evidence and Law, and a research professor (fractional) in the School of Law at the University of Northumbria, UK. Originally trained in the history and philosophy of science, he subsequently studied law at the University of Sydney and took a PhD in law from the University of Cambridge.

An active commentator on expert evidence in Australia, England, the US and Canada, he is a member of the editorial board of the Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales, served as an international adviser to the Goudge Inquiry into Pediatric Forensic Pathology in Ontario (2007-2008) and sat on the Council of the Australian Academy of Forensic Sciences for more than a decade. He is Chair of the Evidence-based forensics initiative and is co-author of Australian Evidence: A principled approach to the common law and the uniform acts (6^th ed. LexisNexis, 2017). His publications are available at https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/professor-gary-edmond/publications