James D. R. Philips

I studied at the Universities of Oxford and Sydney, and hold

degrees in liberal arts and in law. I have been a successful mergers and acquisitions

attorney for more than thirty years, and am a visiting lecturer at the

University of Sydney’s Law School. I held leadership positions at two law

firms and am now a non-executive director of several organizations, including

a leading Australian public-policy-research institute. I first read the American

Constitution in school, and began reading about the English revolutionary

and American colonial periods in 2005.