Constitutional Law and Theory
Constitutional Law and Theory
Honorary Professor
Research interests:
General Human Rights Law and Policy, Anti-Discrimination Law and Policy
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
Law and public finance, Law and technology, Artificial intelligence and law
PhD Candidate
Research interests:
Asian Law, Public law, Constitutional Law, Constitutional Rights, Constitutional Reform, Access to Justice
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
Constitutional Law, Political Theory and Constitutional Law, State Fragility and Armed Conflicts, Access to Justice and Legal Empowerment of the Poor, Rule of Law Reform, Philosophies of Law, Rule of Law Theory, Islamic criminal laws, Criminal Justice, Law and Society in South Asia, Post-disaster recovery and reconstruction
Professor
Research interests:
Legal Philosophy, Public law, Indigenous rights, Law and Cultural Difference
Emeritus Professor
Research interests:
Constitutional Law, Constitutional Courts, Constitutional History, Constitutional Reform, Federalism, Separation of Powers, The Judicial System
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
Parliamentary Process and Procedure, Constitutional Rights, Political Theory and Constitutional Law, Parliamentary and Electoral Democracy, Counter-Terrorism Law, Deliberative Democracy
PhD Candidate
Research interests:
Constitutional Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, Asia-Pacific Security, Pacific Law, Law and Politics, Public law, Constitutional Courts, Judiciary, Transformative Constitutionalism, Separation of Powers, Constitutional Reform, Law and Governance
Honorary Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
Forced Migration and Movement of Peoples, Migration Law, Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Refugee Law
Associate Professor
Research interests:
Constitutional Law, Constitutional Courts, Constitutional Reform, Constitutional Rights, Political Theory and Constitutional Law, Federalism, Parliamentary and Electoral Democracy, Deliberative Democracy
Associate Professor
Research interests:
Administrative law, legal theory
Honorary Professor
Research interests:
Public law, Commercial Law, National security
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
Constitutional Courts, Constitutional History, Constitutional Rights, Gender and Constitutional Law, The Judicial System, Property Law
PhD Candidate
Research interests:
Administrative law, Torts, private law remedies, Accountability, Government liability
Professor
Research interests:
Constitutional Law, Constitutional Courts, Constitutional History, Constitutional Reform, Constitutional Rights, Political Theory and Constitutional Law, Federalism, Gender and Constitutional Law, Parliamentary and Electoral Democracy, Separation of Powers, The Judicial System, Citizenship, Access to Government Information
Associate Professor
Research interests:
Constitutional Law, Constitutional Courts, Constitutional Reform, Constitutional Rights, Political Theory and Constitutional Law, Federalism, Parliamentary and Electoral Democracy, Separation of Powers
Professor
Research interests:
Constitutional Rights, Federalism, Separation of Powers, The Judicial System, Private International Law, Administrative law, Constitutional Law
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
Access to Government Information, Administrative law, Public law, Privacy
PhD Candidate
Research interests:
Separation of Powers, Refugees, Constitutional Law, Chapter III of the Constitution, Human rights, Human Rights and the Law, Federal judicial system, Judiciary, Rule of Law
Emeritus Professor
Research interests:
Constitutional Courts, Constitutional History, Separation of Powers, The Judicial System
Associate Professor
Research interests:
Refugee Law, Immigration, Human rights, Constitutional Law, Public law, international legal theory, recognition theory, narrative legal identities
Latest news
11
Oct
2018
Senior Lecturer Dr Ryan Goss on why local election laws need reforming.
11
Oct
2018
Lady Davis Visiting Professor at Hebrew University
27
Sep
2018
Distinguished contributions to law and society
12
Sep
2018
Dr Peter Prince wins Deen De Bortoli Award for Applied History
06
Sep
2018
PhD candidate Alice Taylor in ANU3MT final
In the Media
16
Oct
2018
The stubby, the bottle and the floor price
Michael Coper interviewed by Alice Springs News Online
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30
Aug
2018
AEC ignored arguments supporting woman's name for new ACT electorate
Kim Rubenstein interviewed by Canberra Times
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09
May
2018
High Court judgements on Section 44 and Citizenship
Kim Rubenstein interviewed by Sky News
22
Jan
2018
Katy Gallagher case reaches High Court as dual citizenship saga continues into 2018
Kim Rubenstein quoted in Canberra Times
Research theme:
01
Dec
2017
Same-sex marriage legislation could become law 'within days'
Ryan Goss speaks to News.com.au
Research theme:
20
Nov
2017
OPINION Here’s a plan: the AEC can rule who qualifies
Kim Rubenstein writes in The Australian
Research theme:
20
Nov
2017
Zimbabwe crisis an elite, not populist issue
Jolyon Ford speaks to ABC's The World Today
14
Nov
2017
Jewish heritage could present citizenship headache for PM and others
Kim Rubenstein quoted in The New Daily
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10
Nov
2017
Labor can’t have ‘cake and eat it too’: Cormann
Kim Rubenstein quoted in The Australian
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Upcoming events
01
Nov
2018
Twenty-first Geoffrey Sawer Lecture - Eyes on the spies: Why and how?
6.00PM to 7.00PM
- The Hon Margaret Stone FAAL, Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security
Over the centuries, governments, whether royal sovereigns or sovereign states, have relied on spies to reinforce their power and security.
30
Oct
2018
Unicorns and urinals: An analysis of how technocrats and securocrats responsible for designing English courthouses visualise the legal system
1.00PM to 2.00PM
- Professor Linda Mulcahy, London School of Economics
This presentation will examine the relationship between architectural design, due process and dignity in the context of discussions about the work that courthouses are expected to do in the contemporary public sphere.
12
Nov
2018
Extra-territoriality in empire: The foreign office, the colonial office and the 'Foreign Jurisdiction Act' 1843
1.00PM to 2.00PM
- Professor Shaunnagh Dorsett, University of Technology Sydney
This paper considers the parallel efforts of the Foreign Office and the Colonial Office to exert extra-territorial control over unruly British subjects on the frontiers of the Empire in the eighteen-thirties.
24
Oct
2018
Special event – Law masterclass on Statutory Interpretation by Guy Aitken QC
5.30PM to 7.00PM
- Guy Aitken QC
What's the one skill that Judges think law graduates need to improve on? Statutory Interpretation!
25
Oct
2018
Understanding the role of the judiciary in a transformative Constitution: The case of Papua New Guinea
1.00PM to 3.00PM
- Mr Bal Kama, ANU College of Law
The Constitution of Papua New Guinea (PNG) affords the judiciary an unusually liberal and broad set of powers compared to all other constitutions in the Pacific region, including Australia and New Zealand.
Past events
No past events found.
