Macquarie Law School
Academic Staff
Denise Meyerson
Positions: Professor
Tel: +61-2-9850 7079
Fax: +61-2-9850 7686
Email: denise.meyerson@law.mq.edu.au
Location: W3A 520
Qualifications
BA (Witwatersrand), LLB (Cape Town), B Phil, D Phil (Oxon)
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Teaching Responsibilities 2009
Research Interests:
Human rights; comparative constitutionalism; jurisprudence; the theoretical foundations of public law
Recent Publications2005-2008)
Books
Understanding Jurisprudence (Oxford, New York: Routledge-Cavendish, 2007).
Essential Jurisprudence (Sydney, Oxford, New York: Routledge-Cavendish, 2006).
With P Radan and R Croucher (eds) Law and Religion: God, the State and the Common Law (London and New York: Routledge, 2005).
Journal articles
‘Using Judges to Manage Risk: The Case of Thomas v Mowbray’ (2008) 36 Federal Law Review 209-229.
‘Equality Guarantees and Distributive Inequity’ (2008) 19 Public Law Review 32-51.
‘Why Courts Should Not Balance Rights against the Public Interest’ (2007) 31 Melbourne University Law Review 873-902.
‘State and Federal Privative Clauses – Not So Different After All’ (2005) 16 Public Law Review 39-54.
Book chapters
‘Why Religion belongs in the Private Sphere, Not the Public Square’ in Peter Cane, Carolyn Evans and Zoe Robinson (eds), Law and Religion in Theoretical and Historical Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008) 44-71.
‘The Independence of the Judiciary in Australia and South Africa: Comparative Lessons’ in Penelope E Andrews and Susan Bazilli (eds), Law and Rights: Global Perspectives on Constitutionalism and Governance (Florida: Vandeplas Publishing, 2008) 79-90.
‘Religion and the South African Constitution’ in P Radan, D Meyerson, R Croucher (eds) Law and Religion: God, the State and the Common Law (London and New York: Routledge, 2005) 116-133.
Encyclopaedia entries
‘Religion’ in Peter Cane and Joanne Conaghan (eds) The New Oxford Companion to Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008) 1002-1003.
Book reviews
Michael Head and Scott Mann Law in Perspective: Ethics, Society and Critical Thinking. Reviewed in (2007) 32 Alternative Law Journal 59-60.
Rebecca J Cook, Bernard M Dickens and Mahmoud F Fathalla Reproductive Health and Human Rights: Integrating Medicine, Ethics and Law. Reviewed in (2006) 6 DevelopingWorld Bioethics 52-3.
My papers can also be accessed on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) [Download]