Martin Krygier

Martin Evald John Krygier AM FASSA, (born 1949) is an Australian academic.

Krygier obtained BA and LLB degrees at the University of Sydney and a PhD in the History of Ideas at the Australian National University.

Krygier taught in the Department of Jurisprudence at University of Sydney Law school, before joining the Faculty of Law (now Faculty of Law and Justice) in the University of New South Wales. He was appointed the Gordon Samuels Professor of Law and Social Theory in 2009.

In 1997, Krygier delivered the annual series of Australian Broadcasting Corporation Boyer Lectures on "Between Fear and Hope: Hybrid Thoughts on Public Views".

Martin Krygier born 1949 in Sydney, is the son of Richard Krygier and Roma Halpern.

• 2002 Elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
• 2002 Cavalier's Cross, Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
• 2016 Dennis Leslie Mahoney Prize
• 2020 Member of the Order of Australia for "significant service to legal education, and to professional associations"