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Rosalind Dixon
Professor
BA/LLB (UNSW), LLM, SJD (Harvard Law School)
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Brief overview
Professor Rosalind Dixon is a Professor of Law, at the University of New South Wales, Faculty of Law. She earned her BA and LLB from the University of New South Wales, and was an associate to the Chief Justice of Australia, the Hon. Murray Gleeson AC, before attending Harvard Law School, where she obtained an LLM and SJD. Her work focuses on comparative constitutional law and constitutional design, constitutional democracy, theories of constitutional dialogue and amendment, socio-economic rights and constitutional law and gender, and has been published in leading journals in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia, including the Cornell Law Review, GW Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, International Journal of Constitutional Law, American Journal of Comparative Law, Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and Sydney Law Review. She is co-editor, with Tom Ginsburg, of a leading handbook on comparative constitutional law, ComparativeConstitutional Law (Edward Elgar, 2011), and a related volume, Comparative Constitutional Law in Asia (Edward Elgar, 2014), co-editor (with Mark Tushnet and Susan Rose-Ackermann) of the Edward Elgar series on Constitutional and Administrative Law, on the editorial board of the Public Law Review, and editor of the Constitutions of the World series for Hart publishing. Dixon is a member of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law and deputy director of the Herbert Smith Freehills Initiative on Law and Economics. She previously served as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School, and has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, Columbia Law School, Harvard Law School and the National University of Singapore, She was recently elected as co-president of the International Society of Public Law: https://www.icon-society.org/
Areas of expertise
Constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, constitutional design, constitutional democracy, constitutional amendment, socio-economic rights, law and gender.
Centre
Memberships
Fellow, Australian Academy of Law
Council, International Society of Public Law
Member, Gilbert & Tobin Centre for Public Law, Centre for Interdisciplinary Study of Law
Deputy Director, Herbert Smith Freehills Initiative on Law and Economics
Research supervision
Jemimah Roberts, Constitutional Interpretation in the High Court: Revisiting Genealogical, Genetic and Functional Comparison
Shreeya Smith, Aslyum seekers, mandatory detention and constitutional limits on the exercise of non-statutory executive power
Khanh Hoang, Cooperation and compliance in international refugee law: A rational choice approach
Josh Gibson, Gender and Human Rights Institutions
Doron Goldbarsht, Counter-Terrorist Financing: A Study in Effectiveness and the Rule of Law in Global Administrative Law
Bhatara Ibnu Reza, The Development of the Militia as the Implementation of the Total People’s Defense and Security in Indonesia
Courses taught
- Australian Bills of Rights and the Protection of Human Rights (LAWS8061)
- Aus Bills of Rights and the Protection of Human Rt (LAWS3047)
- Federal Constitutional Law (LAWS2150)
- Australian Bills of Rights (JURD7461)
- Economic Analysis of Law (LAWS3335)
- The High Court of Australia (LAWS3292)
Media mentions
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21 November 2018
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11 September 2018
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10 September 2018
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5 September 2018
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22 August 2018
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19 July 2018
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29 June 2018
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3 November 2017
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23 August 2017
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21 July 2017