Rob Lilley is a clinical legal academic at Curtin Law School and Principal Lawyer of the John Curtin Law Clinic. In 2025, he developed and delivered an innovative clinical-hybrid Succession Law unit in which students learn the substantive law of succession before applying that knowledge in practice by drafting wills for real clients through the John Curtin Law Clinic.

Outside the University, Rob operates a boutique legal practice and a mediation practice. He is also a sessional Legal Member of the Mental Health Tribunal of Western Australia and serves as Principal Adjudicator under the Local Government Act 1995 (WA).

Rob is admitted to practice in:

• New Zealand (2005)
• New South Wales (2007)
• Western Australia (2010)
• High Court of Australia (2012)