Title
Deputy Principal (Academic) and Professor of Law
Institution / Organization
Sydney City School of Law, Australia
Bio
Sam Blay is the Deputy Principal (Academic) and Professor of Law at the Sydney City School of Law, Top Education Institute in Australia. He is also former Dean of Law, University of Tasmania, and former Professor of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) Australia. Born in Ghana, Professor Blay obtained his Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Ghana, and his Masters and PhD in law from the Australian National University and the University of Tasmania respectively.
He has extensive experience as a teacher/trainer, researcher and academic manager. He was the lead academic who helped to found the Sydney City School of Law, the first for-‐profit law school in Australia. He is generally considered to be an academic entrepreneur. He has worked extensively in the public tertiary sector, and now operates a private law school. He is one of the few academics in Australian legal education who has experience in both the public education sector and the ‘for-‐profit’ private sector. As founder and Deputy Principal (Academic) in the Sydney City School of Law, Professor Blay routinely deals with the complex balance between academic demands and business imperatives and their implications on academic integrity.
Professor Blay is an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship Scholar (with the Max Planck Institute for International Law in Heidelberg, Germany (1992-‐3; 2003). He has taught as a visiting scholar in the University of Missouri in Kansas City in the United States and the China University of Politics and Law in Beijing.
Professor Blay has also served as a United Nations consultant in Somalia, Sudan, Vietnam and Advisor the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Laos. He is currently the Rapporteur on the Right to Peace for the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights Study on the Right to Peace. He is also a member of the China International Economic Trade and Arbitration Commission (CIETAC).
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