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Nicholas Aroney's research interests include Australian constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, discrimination and equal opportunity law, federalism and legal history. Nicholas Aroney is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law. His research under the fellowship involves a systematic comparison of the Australian federal system with other systems of multi-level governance throughout North and South America, Europe and Asia. The purpose of the research is to identify the principles and values that ought to underlie the Australian federal system and to show how they can apply to the interpretation and reform of the Australian Constitution.
Professor Aroney has published widely in the fields of constitutional law, comparative constitutional law and legal theory, including several books and numerous journal articles and book chapters. He speaks frequently at national and international conferences on these topics and has held visiting positions at several Australian and overseas universities. In 2012 he will be a MacCormick Fellow at Edinburgh University’s Europa Institute and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative Law in Oxford University.
Professor Aroney was the recent recipient of an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant with Professor Patrick Parkinson of Sydney University entitled A Federation of Cultures? Innovative approaches to multicultural accommodation. The project will examine how state and federal governments can better protect and support the values, beliefs and cultural practices of different cultural and religious groups, especially in matters concerning family life, community identity and freedom of conscience, within a framework of respect for human rights.
He is also a former editor of the University of Queensland Law Journal (2003-2005) and International Trade and Business Law Annual (1996-1998). He is also a past secretary of the Australian Society of Legal Philosophy and a current member of the Governing Council of the Australian Association of Constitutional Law.
Professor Aroney came to the Law School in 1995 after working with a major national law firm and acting as a legal consultant in the field of building and construction law.
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