Dr Patrick Emerton

Research Interests

Anti-Terrorism Law
Human Rights
International Law
Legal and Moral Philosophy

Supervisor Profile

Qualified to supervise: Honours;

Current projects under supervision

Honours:

3 LLB honours theses

Masters:

No current projects

Doctoral:

Common good versus individual rights: anti-terrorism laws and human rights

Peace Building in the South Pacific: A Grassroots Approach
(co-supervisor: Guy Powles)

Reconceptualising the discursive framework of taxation policy in order to achieve distributive justice: an analysis of taxation policy in Australia through an examination of the introduction of a Goods and Services Tax
(co-supervisors: Stephen Barkoczy and Graeme Hodge)

Neo-liberalist doctrine of individual rights
(co-supervisor: Melissa Castan)

The 'right' kind of health: justice, health inequalities and social determinants of health
(co-supervisor: Beatrice Loff, Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine)

Anarchism and the Liberal Criminal Justice System

Grants and Commissions

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

Publications

2010

Emerton P, ‘Political freedoms and entitlements in the Australian Constitution - an example of referential intentions yielding unexpected legal consequences’ (2010) 38(2) Federal Law Review 169-203.

Complete listing of publications, including those prior to 2010