Max Bonnell

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Maxwell Thomas Bennett Bonnell (born 3 February 1962) is an Australian lawyer and cricket historian.

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Career

Max Bonnell attended Trinity Grammar School in Sydney (winning the Lawrence Campbell Oratory Competition in 1979) before studying Arts and Law at the University of Sydney. He also studied at the University of Warwick where he completed a master's degree in European Renaissance drama. [1] He was appointed an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Sydney in 2009. [2]

He is a lawyer specialising in international arbitration. He was a partner in the Sydney office of the law firm King & Wood Mallesons for 18 years until he joined White & Case in 2017. In 2019 he joined the Sydney firm Henry William Lawyers. [3] [4] [5] At the 2016 Australian ADR Awards, he was named International ADR Practitioner of the Year. [3] He has acted as an Australian delegate to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law. He was counsel for the successful claimant in White Industries v India, the first successful ISDS claim made against India. [6]

He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a Fellow of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration. In 2020, he became one of the first arbitrators included in the Arbitrator Pool of the Court of Arbitration for Art. [1]

Alongside his legal career Bonnell has been a prolific sports historian since he published Currency Lads in 2001, concentrating on Australian cricketers in the period between the mid-19th century and World War II. He has received the Jack Pollard Trophy, awarded for the best Australian book on cricket each year, three times (most recently for Black Swan Summer in 2023). [7] He has also written a biography of John Walpole Willis, a 19th-century judge in New South Wales, as well as numerous articles for law journals. [8] His writing on law, sport and theatre has appeared in several journals, including the Sydney Morning Herald and New Theatre Australia. He won NSW Cricket Association Media Awards for his writing on New South Wales cricket in both 1991-92 and 1992-93.

Bonnell played club cricket for Stourbridge in the Birmingham and District Premier League, for Warwick University in the Universities Athletic Union competition, and for Western Suburbs and Sydney University in Sydney Grade Cricket. [9] He served as chairman of the board of the Sydney University Cricket Club. He was awarded a University Gold for cricket by Sydney Uni Sport and Fitness in 2017 [10] and is a Life Member of the Sydney University Cricket Club and the Sydney Cricket Association. [11]

Books

He has also contributed chapters to the books Australia: Sort of a Cricket Country (edited by Christian Ryan, 2011) and Rock Country (edited by Christian Ryan, 2013) and sections of the Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket (OUP, 1996), Wisden Cricketers' Almanack Australia (Hardie Grant Books) and Warne in Wisden (Bloomsbury, 2023).

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References

  1. 1 2 "Max Bonnell". CAFA. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
  2. ↑ "Our people". The University of Sydney Law School. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
  3. 1 2 "Max Bonnell". The Federation Press. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  4. ↑ "Max Bonnell Joins White & Case as a New Partner in Sydney". White & Case. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  5. ↑ "Max Bonnell joins Henry William". Henry William Lawyers. 19 July 2019. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  6. ↑ White Industries Australia Limited v Republic of India.
  7. ↑ "Black Swan Summer Wins Literary Award". Pitch Publishing. Retrieved 24 August 2023.
  8. ↑ "Max Bonnell". Juris - Arbitration Law. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  9. ↑ "Max Bonnell". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  10. ↑ "Snell and Phipps snare Blues awards". Sydney Uni Sport & Fitness. 4 December 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  11. ↑ "SU Chairman elected SCA Life Member". Sydney University Cricket. 7 November 2016. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
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