Simon Blount

Dr Simon Blount is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Law, Sydney Campus of the University of Notre Dame Australia. He holds a PhD from UNSW Australia and has extensive experience in teaching Political Science and Law at institutions like the University of Sydney and UNSW. His research focuses on electronic contracts, tax policy, electoral policy, and multivariate statistical analysis. He authored the book *Electronic Contracts* (2015), published by LexisNexis Butterworths. Practicing as a barrister since 2005, he specializes in commercial law, equity, and administrative law, and speaks fluent German. He actively engages in pro bono advocacy for asylum seekers.

Education includes a PhD (UNSW), LLB, and a BA (Hons 1). His teaching areas include Contracts, Equity and Trusts, and Administrative Law. Research expertise spans digital contract frameworks, taxation dynamics, and electoral behavior analysis.

His scholarly work combines legal theory with quantitative methods, as seen in studies on unemployment’s impact on voting behavior and GST implementation across nations. Recent publications explore electronic contract validity, digital signatures, and software licensing terms.

Notable awards include the Julius Stone Prize in Legal Theory (2005) and the Australian Postgraduate Research Award (1994). He contributes to the legal community through pro bono work and affiliations like the NSW Bar Association.

He has advised on asylum seeker cases pro bono and taught administrative law at UNSW for a decade. No lab affiliations are explicitly mentioned in the text.