Professor Bryan Horrigan holds a doctorate in law from Oxford University under a Rhodes Scholarship. He is an academic, published author, legal and governmental adviser, and public speaker. He has academic expertise, practical experience and an international reputation in public and corporate law and governance. His book Corporate Social Responsibility in the 21st Century was published internationally in 2010.

From 2013 to 2024, Professor Horrigan served as dean of the Faculty of Law at Monash University—the longest-serving dean in the sixty-year history of the faculty. He currently serves as one of only two Special Advisers to the vice-chancellor of the university. He is one of only a few Australian law deans to have more than twenty years’ experience simultaneously in commercial legal practice, university management and the legal academy. In various roles, he has confidentially advised numerous leaders across the public, private and university sectors.

The Australian Government appointed Professor Horrigan to a three-member expert panel to review three major pieces of national business regulation in 2010–11. All of the panel’s recommendations were accepted and became law.