Professor Jeffrey Goldsworthy

Professor of Law (Personal Chair)
LLB(Hons), LLM, MA, PhD, LLD, FASSA,

Professional Profile

Jeffrey Goldsworthy has worked at Monash University since 1984, and was appointed to a Personal Chair in 2000. His major interests are legal philosophy, and constitutional law, theory, and history. He has numerous publications in these fields, but is best known for his book "The Sovereignty of Parliament, History and Philosophy" (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1999), his edited collection "Interpreting Constitutions, A Comparative Study" (Oxford UP, 2006) and many journal articles on constitutional interpretation.

He holds degrees from the University of Adelaide, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of California, Berkeley, including the degree of Doctor of Laws awarded by the University of Adelaide in 2002. He has also taught law at each of these Universities, as well as at the University of Nottingham and Monash.

He is the current President of the Australian Society of Legal Philosophy, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.

Areas of Expertise

Constitutional Law and Theory
Legal History
Legal Philosophy
Administrative Law & Theory

Teaching Commitments

Constitutional Law (LAW3200)
Legal Philosophy (LAW4137)
Administrative Law (LAW3100)