Professor Jeffrey Goldsworthy

Research Interests

Constitutional Law
Legal and Moral Philosophy
Legal History

Supervisor Profile

Qualified to supervise: Honours; Masters; PhD;

Current projects under supervision

Doctoral:

PhD:

State Limits: The borders of the State of Victoria (co-supervised with Greg Taylor)

Legal regulation of electronic commerce (co-supervised with David Lindsay)

Contributions of Irish Lawyers to the Law and its Practice in Nineteenth Century Australia (co-supervised with Greg Taylor)

SJD:

The constitutionalisation of jurisdictional error

Editorial Boards

University of Queensland Law Journal

Legal Theory

Philosophy compass (Blackwell on-line journal)

Grants and Commissions

2010-2012: ARC Discovery-Project Grant for project titled 'A Principled Theory of Legal Interpretation' ($216,000 over three years, with Dale Smith and Patrick Emerton)

2003-05: ARC Discovery-Project Grant for project titled 'Interpreting Constitutions: A Comparative and Theoretical Study' ($85,960 over three years)

2001-03: ARC Large Grant for project titled 'Legislative, Judicial and Popular Participation in the Protection of Human Rights in Australia' ($138,400 over three years with Tom Campbell and Adrienne Stone)

1998-2000: ARC Large Grant for project titled 'Judicial Activism and Australian Democracy: a Philosophical and Legal Examination of the Rule of Law in Australia' ($105,000 over three years with Tom Campbell)

Publications

2011

A selection of Professor Goldsworthy's other publications is available on-line at:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=513424

Book Chapter

J Goldsworthy, 'The Case for Originalism', in Grant Huscroft and Bradley W. Miller (eds), The Challenge of Originalism. Theories of Constitutional Interpretation, (Cambridge University Press, USA, 2011) 42-69.

Journal articles

J Goldsworthy, 'Constitutional implications revisited', (2011) 30(1) University of Queensland Law Journal 9-34.

J Goldsworthy, 'The limits of judicial fidelity to the law: The Coxford Lecture', (2011) 24(2) Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 305-325.

Selected list of publications, including those prior to 2011