Murray Wesson is a senior lecturer in the Law School, University of Western Australia. He completed his LLB at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. Thereafter he studied at the University of Oxford on the KwaZulu-Natal Rhodes Scholarship, where he completed a Bachelor of Civil Law, MPhil and DPhil degrees. He has taught at the Universities of KwaZulu-Natal, Oxford and Leeds, and been a visiting lecturer at the Central European University in Budapest and the Law Institute in Jersey.

Murray was the Academic Conduct Advisor for the Law School from 2015-2019, and has been Deputy Head, Students since 2020.

Murray teaches and coordinates the units LAWS2224 Evolution of Human Rights, LAWS5101 Constitutional Law, and LAWS5106 Legal Theory and Ethics.

In 2015 he was the Blackstone Society Law Teacher of the Year.

Murray's research interests are in the areas of constitutional law, human rights law, and legal theory.