Dr Liz Hicks

Overview

Liz Hicks is a Lecturer at Melbourne Law School and a member of the Melbourne Centre for Law and Environment and the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies. Her research interests sit broadly across law and environment, comparative public law and democratic design, the influence of legal culture on doctrinal development, and the relationship between public and private law. She has published both comparative and doctrinal work on law and climate change, protection of protest and political freedoms, comparative freedom of speech and emergency governance during the COVID-19 crisis. Her doctorate, completed jointly between Melbourne Law School and Humboldt University of Berlin, compared how legal professional culture has shaped the development of constitutional doctrine in Australia and Germany.

Liz also holds an LLM in German and European Law and Legal Practice from Humboldt University of Berlin, funded through the Heinrich Böll foundation, and a Bachelor of Arts (German, Honours) / Law (Honours) from Monash University. She has previously worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher and Teacher at the University of Münster, as a Teaching Associate at Monash University, and as a freelance academic translator. She is also a member of the Verfassungsblog Advisory Board and Climate Conscious Lawyers legal education network.

Memberships and Affiliations

• National Environmental Law Association (NELA)
• International Society of Public Law (ICON-S)
• International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Commission on Environmental Law