Speakers

Dr. Gary Lilienthal is a Professor of Law and an internationally recognized scholar, psychotherapist, and legal academic with extensive experience across Australia, Asia, Africa, and the United States. He holds a Diploma in Counselling from the Australian Institute of Professional Counselling (legally sufficient for general counselling practice in Australia), a law degree from the University of Sydney, a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the Sydney College of Law, a Master’s Degree (High Distinction) in Freudian and Lacanian Psychoanalysis from Melbourne, and a Doctorate from Perth, Australia, specializing in the historical development of the intellectual property tort of passing-off. His doctoral research drew conceptual parallels between fraud and commonplace denunciation. Dr. Lilienthal has practised as a general and pastoral psychotherapist since 1992, following his clerical ordination in Long Island, New York. In New York City and Buffalo, he presided over approximately 9,500 commercial and family mediations. In 2006, his clinical work advanced into forensic psychotherapy after completing his master’s degree in psychoanalytic studies, subsequently working closely with legal professionals. Alongside his clinical career, he has maintained a prolific academic output and is widely cited internationally, with approximately 7,600 citations. He has held numerous senior academic appointments, including Senior Lecturer and Examiner at the Australian Institute of Professional Counselling (Sydney), Senior Lecturer in Law at Northern University of Malaysia, Associate Professor of Law and Scholar-in-Residence at Symbiosis University (India), and Full Professor of Law at the University of Gondar (Ethiopia). He currently serves as Professor of Law at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, by personal appointment of the Vice Chancellor, and is a former Visiting Professor at BIHER School of Management and Commerce (Chennai, India). His international contributions include convening a Master’s program in International Labour Organization Law in Malaysia, delivering a national security presentation to the Indian National Security Council (for which he received a Silver Medal in National Security), supervising 75 research master’s students, and designing doctoral research preparation programs in Ethiopia focusing on human rights, gender, torture, genocide, and rights theory. Dr. Lilienthal has led multinational research initiatives, including projects on water rights in the River Nile Basin, with findings published in the Tulane University Journal of Environmental Law. He has authored several SCOPUS-indexed books, including Human Capital and Development (Nova Science Publishers, New York), Regulation of the Professions in East Asia, Islamic Sources and International Law (2023), and Critical Women’s Issues (2024). He has also published research on diplomatic law and the genesis of water rights, and since 2024 has produced a series of practice-grounded manuscripts in psychodynamic psychotherapy. In 2018, he delivered a keynote at Shanghai Jiao Tong University on regulating multinational corporations, later published as a government book in the People’s Republic of China. He currently chairs the Carrington Rand collaboration, a global network of approximately 60 scholars.