Lyndel Prott

Lyndel Vivien Prott (born 1940) is a legal academic who specialises in cultural heritage law both within Australia and internationally. As of 2020 she is an honorary professor in the School of Law at the University of Queensland.

Prott completed her secondary education at Sydney Girls' High School, winning a Commonwealth Scholarship. She graduated from the University of Sydney in Arts in 1961, followed by Law in 1964.

She was employed by the University of Sydney in 1974 as a senior lecturer. In 1984 she became a reader in law. In 1990 she was awarded one of the first ten personal chairs by the university, holding the Chair of Cultural Heritage Law from 1991 to 1995. She was elected an honorary fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2005.

The University of Sydney conferred on her a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) in May 2004.

Selected publications