Theunis Roux

Professor

BA (Hons) LLB (Cape Town) PhD (Cantab)
Director, Postgraduate Research

Contact details

Room:
218 Law Building
Phone:
9385 3418
E-mail:
t.roux@unsw.edu.au

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Brief overview

Theunis Roux came to UNSW from South Africa, where he had been the Founding Director of the South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public Human Rights and International Law (SAIFAC), Extraordinary Professor in the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, and Honorary Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Courses taught

LAWS2150 Federal Constitutional Law
LAWS1052 Foundations of Law

Areas of expertise

Australian federal constitutional law; South African constitutional (property) law; comparative constitutional (property) law; interdiscplinary research in law and politics; legal theory; property rights restitution and land reform.

Professional memberships and affiliations

Editor, Constitutional Court Review; Member, Advisory Board, African Human Rights Law Reports.

Former Secretary-General, International Association of Constitutional Law.

Member, Gilbert and Tobin Centre for Public Law; Member, Centre for the Interdiciplinary Study of Law

Research supervision

Greg Weeks, The use of soft law by Australian government authorities: remedies for inconsistency with non-legislative rules or guidelines

Andrew Dahdal, The banking power under the Australian Constitution