Andrew Higgins

Lecturer in Civil Procedure

 Andrew is a departmental lecturer in civil procedure. From 2008 to 2011 he was the career development fellow in civil procedure at the law faculty and University college. He completed a BA/LLB (hons) at the University of Melbourne in 2001 and the BCL in 2005. In 2011 Andrew completed his Dphil at the University of Oxford on legal professional privilege, specifically as it applies to corporations.  He has been a visiting scholar with NYU's Hauser Global Law School Program and an occasional guest lecturer in civil procedure at Melbourne Law School.

Between 1997 and 2007 Andrew worked as a paralegal, solicitor, and associate at the Australian law firm Slater & Gordon. His main area of practice was tobacco litigation. For his work on McCabe v British American Tobacco he was nominated for the Australian Plaintiff Lawyer's Association Civil Justice Award (becoming the youngest ever official nominee for the award) and received an award for his contribution to public health from a coalition of public health NGOs. He has advised the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission on whether the use of light and mild descriptors for cigarettes constituted misleading advertising, and assisted the US Department of Justice on its RICO claim against the US tobacco industry: US v Philip Morris et al. Andrew has also worked on a number of mass tort class actions and ran an asbestos practice.

Andrew is also a member of the Victorian Bar. His main research interests are civil procedure, tort and causation.