Andrew Roberts joined the Yong Pung How School of Law in 2026. He has a long-standing interest in criminal evidence and procedure. He is a co-author of Uniform Evidence, 4th edition, (2025: Thomson Reuters), and co-editor of a collection of essays on Australian Uniform Evidence Law: Critical Perspectives on the Uniform Evidence Law (2017: Federation Press). He has published widely on problems associated with expert evidence, eyewitness identification, and witness testimony. His work in these fields has been cited by appellate courts in various jurisdictions, including the High Court of Australia, the Supreme Court of Canada, New Zealand Court of Appeal, and Courts of Appeal in Victoria, South Australia and Queensland.
Prior to taking up his position at Singapore Management University, he was a Chief Investigator on an Australian Research Council funded project concerned with use of Body Worn Cameras to record complainants’ statements when the police attend incidents of Domestic and Family Violence. The project examines how the way in which the statement is filmed and what can be seen in the background affects assessment of a complainant’s credibility.
Andrew has also pursued interests in republican political theory and privacy. He is author of Privacy in the Republic (Routledge, 2022) which explains why privacy ought to be considered by republicans to be a collective good that, in various ways, protects citizens from domination. In subsequent writing, he has considered how, in the context of increasing use of intrusive technology in the criminal justice system, this way of thinking about privacy and its value might usefully shape the development of procedural law and policy. He has written on the law relating to powers to take and retain DNA, bulk communications data retention schemes, and the award of exemplary damages in actions for violation of privacy. He is co-editor of Privacy, Technology, and the Criminal Process (2023: Routledge), a collection of essays that explore the impact on privacy of the use of technology in the criminal justice system.
Qualifications
- Ph.D., University of Amsterdam
- M.Phil., University of Cambridge
- LL.B. (Hons) in Law with American Law, University of Nottingham
Course Taught in SMU
- Law of Evidence
Research Areas / Areas of Specialisation
- Law of Evidence
- Criminal Procedure
- Psychology and Law
- Privacy
- Political Theory