Dr Mark Fowler

Dr Mark Fowler

Chair, Australian Christian Legal Society and President, NSW Christian Legal Society Inc.

Dr Mark Fowler is the Chair of the Australian Christian Legal Society, the Principal Lawyer of Fowler Charity Law and author of Beauty and the Law: A Primer in Philosophy and Theology for Enquiring Minds Committed to the Common Good (Shepherd Street Press, 2024). Dr Fowler is a practicing lawyer whose specialist areas of advice include the law applying to not-for-profit organisations, income tax exempt institutions, charities and deductible gift recipients. He has advised a wide range of schools and other educational institutions, international aid organisations, charitable housing associations, benevolent institutions, disability service providers, peak bodies, arts and cultural organisations and religious organisations.

Prior to establishing Fowler Charity Law Pty Ltd in 2019, Mark was a Partner in leading national charity and not-for-profit law firms located in Sydney and Brisbane. He is an Appeals Panel member for the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), the peak body for Australian non-government organisations (NGOs) involved in international development and humanitarian action. He is a member of the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission Professional Users Group and has served as a member of the Queensland Law Society’s Human Rights Working Group. Mark is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame, School of Law, Sydney, and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Law School at his alma mater, the University of New England. He is also an External Fellow at the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law, University of Queensland. He holds a doctorate degree in law conferred by the University of Queensland in 2023. He has authored several research publications.