Eugene Schofield-Georgeson

Eugene Schofield-Georgeson works across the fields of labour and criminal law. His research negotiates possibilities for industrial and social democracy by challenging a neoliberal rule of law. His work investigates the reproduction of social relationships involving class power through labour and regulatory law, and the law of evidence.

He is the author of Contract, Labour Law and the Realities of Working Life (Routledge, 2025), critiquing dominant common law approaches to labour law, with a particular focus on the High Court's redefinition of employment in the age of precarious work. His previous book, By What Authority? Criminal Law in Colonial NSW, 1788-1861 (2018), explores the evolution and reform of Australian criminal and labour law through the emergence of modern social movements and legal institutions. He has continued this vein of work through two major historical studies of Australian labour enforcement.

In addition, Eugene researches possibilities for worker voice, in respect to health, safety and the environment.

Eugene teaches labour law and Australian constitutional law. Prior to academia, Eugene practised criminal and employment law for over a decade.