Dr Murray Wesson is an Associate Professor in the Law School, University of Western Australia, where he teaches and researches constitutional law, human rights law and legal theory. He has published widely on key public law concepts - such as free speech, social and economic rights, proportionality, and the rule of law - from an Australian and compartative perspective. He is lead Chief Investigator on the Australian Research Council Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities grant, 'Digitisting the Drafting of the Australian Constitution.' Through a collaboration between the Quill Project at the University of Oxford and nine Australian universities, the grant will support the creation of an open-access, online archive that consolidates, corrects and enhances the digital record of the drafting of the Australian Constitution. Murray is co-chair of the Australia and New Zealand chapter of the International Society of Public Law, and co-convenor of the WA chapter of the Australian Association of Constitutional Law. He is regularly interviewed by the media on issues in his areas of expertise and has made numerous submissions to parliamentary and other inquiries.

Muray previously taught at the Central European University, the University of Leeds and the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He completed his BA and LLB degrees at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and BCL and DPhil degrees at the University of Oxford, where he studied as the Kwa-Zulu Natal Rhodes Scholar.