Brief Bio

Martin Krygier is Gordon Samuels Professor of Law and Social Theory, Faculty of Law and Justice, UNSW Sydney; and Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Rule of Law Program, Central European University Democracy Institute, Budapest. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences, and a Member of the Order of Australia. In 2016 he was awarded the Dennis Leslie Mahoney Prize in Legal Theory. He has enjoyed invited fellowships and visiting professorships at numerous universities and institutes in Australia, Austria, Hong Kong, Hungary, Israel, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

He writes for academic journals and journals of public debate, mainly on the rule of law, populism, law and social theory, and law and politics before, during and after authoritarian rule. His latest book, Tempering Power. Beyond the Rule of Law, is in press with Cambridge University Press. Other works include Philip Selznick. Ideals in the World; Civil Passions; Between Fear and Hope: Hybrid thoughts on Public Values.  Edited and co-edited works include Anti-Constitutional Populism; Spreading Democracy and the Rule of Law?; Rethinking the Rule of Law after Communism; Legality and Community: On the Intellectual Legacy of Philip Selznick; The Rule of Law after Communism; Marxism and Communism:  Posthumous Reflections on Politics, Society, and Law; Bureaucracy. The Career of a Concept.

Courses taught at CTLS

• Populism, Constitutional Democracy and Law (Spring 2026)
• The Rule of Law: in Law and in Life (Spring 2026)