Publications

Publications Laureate Program Members
(2016 - )

  • Adrienne Stone. Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellow.

    Books, reference works

    Carolyn Evans and Adrienne Stone, Open Minds: Academic Freedom and Freedom of Speech (Black Inc Books, 2021).

    Adrienne Stone and Frederick Schauer (eds), Oxford Handbook on Freedom of Speech (Oxford University Press, 2021).

    Rosalind Dixon and Adrienne Stone (eds), The Invisible Constitution in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

    Cheryl Saunders and Adrienne Stone (eds), Oxford Handbook on the Australian Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2018).

    Peter Gerangelos, Nicholas Aroney, Simon Evans, Patrick Emerton, Sarah Murray and Adrienne Stone, Winterton’s Australian Federal Constitutional Law: Cases and Materials (4th ed, Thomson Reuters, 2017).

    Publications in scholarly journals

    Adrienne Stone and Lael K Weis, ‘Positive and Negative Constitutionalism and the Limits of Universalism: A Review Essay’(2021) 41(4) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 1249.

    Adrienne Stone, ‘The Meaning of Academic Freedom: The Significance of Ridd v James Cook University’ (2021) 43(2) Sydney Law Review 241.

    Adrienne Stone, ‘Freedom of Expression under the Australian Constitution’ (2020) 7 Journal of Constitutional Justice 111.

    Adrienne Stone, ‘Proportionality and Its Alternatives’ (2020) 48(1) Federal Law Review 123.

    Shireen Morris and Adrienne Stone,  ‘Abortion Protests and the Limits of Freedom of Political Communication: Clubb v Edwards; Preston v Avery’(2018) 40 Sydney Law Review 395.

    Adrienne Stone, ‘Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments: Between Contradiction and Necessity’ (2018) 12(3) Vienna Journal on International Constitutional Law 357.

    Adrienne Stone, ‘Viewpoint Discrimination, Hate Speech Laws and the Double-Sided Nature of Freedom of Speech’ (2017) 32(3) Constitutional Commentary 687.

    Adrienne Stone ‘Putting Political Constitutionalism in its Place?: A Reply to Cormac Mac Amhlaigh’ (2016) 14(1) International Journal of Constitutional Law 198.

    Claudia Geiringer, Cheryl Saunders and Adrienne Stone, ‘Symposium on Australasian Constitutionalism: Introduction’ (2016) 14(1) International Journal of Constitutional Law 54.

    Elisa Arcioni and Adrienne Stone, ‘The Small Brown Bird: Values, Aspirations and the Australian Constitution’ (2016) 14 International Journal of Constitutional Law 60.

    Contributions to reference works

    Adrienne Stone, ‘Freedom of Expression’ in Honing Lau, David S Law and Alex Schwartz (eds),  The Oxford Handbook of Constitutional Law in Asia (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

    Elisa Arcioni and Adrienne Stone, ‘Constitutional Change in Australia: The Paradox of the Frozen Continent’ in Xenophon Contiades and Alkmene Fotiadou (eds), Routledge Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Change (Routledge, 2020).

    Adriene Stone and Frederick Schauer, ‘Introduction’ in Adrienne Stone and Frederick Schauer (eds), Oxford Handbook on Freedom of Speech (Oxford University Press, 2021).

    Adrienne Stone, ‘Freedom of Expression’ in Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum (eds), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law (Oxford University Press, 2020).

    Adrienne Stone, ‘Expression’ in Cheryl Saunders and Adrienne Stone (eds), Oxford Handbook on the Australian Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2018).

    Adrienne Stone, ‘Judicial Reasoning’ in Cheryl Saunders and Adrienne Stone (eds), Oxford Handbook on the Australian Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2018).

    Adrienne Stone and Cheryl Saunders, ‘Introduction’ in Cheryl Saunders and Adrienne Stone (eds), Oxford Handbook on the Australian Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2018).

    Adrienne Stone, ‘New York Times v. Sullivan’ in Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum (eds), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law (Oxford University Press, 2017).

    Katharine Gelber and Adrienne Stone, ‘Constitutions, Gender and Freedom of Expression’ in Helen Irving (ed), Constitutions and Gender (Elgar, 2017).

    Book chapters

    Adrienne Stone, ‘Freedom of Expression and the Constitutional Canon’ in Sujit Choudhry, Michaela Hailbronner and Mattias Kumm (eds), Global Canons in an Age of Uncertainty: Debating Foundational Texts of Constitutional Democracy and Human Rights (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

    Selena Bateman and Adrienne Stone, ‘Precedents and Case-Based Reasoning in the Case Law of the High Court of Australia’ in Monika Florczak-Wątor (ed), Constitutional Law and Precedent: Constitutional Law and Precedent (Routledge, 2022).

    Adrienne Stone, ‘Proportionality and its Alternatives’ in John Griffiths and James Stellios (eds), Current Issues in Constitutional Law: Tribute to Professor Leslie Zines (Federation Press, 2020).

    Selena Bateman and Adrienne Stone, ‘Australia: COVID-19 and Constitutional Law’ in José Ma. Serna De La Garza (ed), COVID-19 and Constitutional Law (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2020).

    Adrienne Stone, ‘Between Realism and Legalism: Michael Coper and the Enduring Appeal of Cole v Whitfield’ in James Stellios (ed), Encounters with Constitutional Interpretation and Legal Education: Essays in Honour of Michael Coper (Federation Press, 2018).

    Rosalind Dixon and Adrienne Stone, ‘The Invisible Constitution in Comparative Perspective’ in Rosalind Dixon and Adrienne Stone (eds), The Invisible Constitution in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

    Adrienne Stone, ‘The Canadian Constitutional Law of Freedom of Expression’ in Richard Albert and David R Cameron (eds), Canada in the World: Comparative Perspectives on the Canadian Constitution (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

    Cheryl Saunders and Adrienne Stone, ‘The High Court of Australia’ in András Jakab, Arthur Dyevre and Giulio Itzcovich (eds), Comparative Constitutional Reasoning (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

    Submissions and advice to Government

    Michael Crommelin, Kristen Rundle, Cheryl Saunders, Adrienne Stone and Selena Bateman,  Supplementary Submission to the Senate Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation Committee, Inquiry into the Exemption of Delegated Legislation From Parliamentary Oversight, 10 September 2020 .

    Michael Crommelin, Kristen Rundle, Cheryl Saunders, Adrienne Stone and Selena Bateman,  Submission to the Senate Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation Committee, Inquiry into the Exemption of Delegated Legislation From Parliamentary Oversight, 25 June 2020 .

    Adrienne Stone, Cheryl Saunders, and Kristen Rundle, Supplementary Submission to the Joint Select Committee on Constitutional Recognition, Inquiry into Constitutional Recognition Relating to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, 5 October 2018 .

    Adrienne Stone, Cheryl Saunders, Kristen Rundle, Kirsty Gover, Shireen Morris, and Anne Carter, Further Submission to the Joint Select Committee on Constitutional Recognition, Inquiry into Constitutional Recognition Relating to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, 21 September 2018
    https://law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/2899016/Further-Submission-to-JSC-FINAL-21-September.pdf.

    Adrienne Stone, Cheryl Saunders, Kristen Rundle, Kirsty Gover, and Shireen Morris, Submission to the Joint Select Committee on Constitutional Recognition, Inquiry into Constitutional Recognition Relating to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, 15 June 2018.

    Adrienne Stone, Joshua Quinn-Watson, Anna Saunders, and Cole Kirby, Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, Inquiry Into Freedom of Speech in Australia, 23 December 2016 .

    Blog posts

    Joshua Forrest and Adrienne Stone, ‘The High Court’s Defence of Academic Freedom in Ridd v JCU‘, Australian Public Law (Blog Post, 17 November 2021) .

    Adrienne Stone and Joshua Forrest, ‘The Troubling Case of Professor Ridd’, Online Opinion: Australia’s E-Journal of Social and Political Debate (Blog Post, 24 June 2021) .

    Adrienne Stone, ‘Four Fundamental Principles for Upholding Freedom of Speech on Campus’, The Conversation (Blog Post, 15 October 2018) < https://theconversation.com/four-fundamental-principles-for-upholding-freedom-of-speech-on-campus-104690>.

    Adrienne Stone, ‘Proportionality and the Boundaries of Borrowing’, I-CONnect (Blog Post, 24 April 2018) .

    Adrienne Stone and Jade Roberts, ‘It’s Complicated: Academic Freedom and Freedom of Speech’, Pursuit (Blog Post, 30 September 2018) .

    Cheryl Saunders, Adrienne Stone and Joshua Quinn-Watson, ‘A Constitution Shaped By Distance’, Pursuit (Blog Post, 24 May 2018) .

    Gary Hansell and Adrienne Stone, ‘Public Servants, Social Media and the Constitution’,  Australian Public Law (Blog Post, 5 September 2017) .

    News articles

    Adrienne Stone, ‘Academic Freedom Recognised But Sacked Scientist Fails in Bid to be Reinstated’, The Age (online, 14 October 2021) .

    Adrienne Stone, ‘Universities Should Tolerate “Offensive” Ideas’, The Age (online, 15 October 2021) .

    Other

    ‘Constitutional Dimensions of Academic Freedom’, Constitutional Café (Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, 12 April 2021) .

    ‘Climate Science Dismissal Case Sparks Academic Freedom Debate’, Law Report (ABC Radio National, 19 October 2021) .

    ‘Episode 100: What does our Constitution Say About Freedom of Speech’, Eavesdrop on Experts (University of Melbourne, 17 March 2021) .

    ‘How Far Should Courts Push Societies To Change?’, The Minefield (ABC Radio National, 23 September 2020) .

    ‘Germs and Justice: Democracy and Emergency Powers’, Big Ideas (ABC Radio National, 18 June 2020) .

    ‘Freedom of Speech on Campus’, Counterpoint (ABC Radio National, 18 October 2018) .

    ‘Episode 42: Academic Freedom and Free Speech in Universities’ The Policy Shop (The University of Melbourne, 19 July 2018) .

    ‘The Fifth Estate: High Court’, The Wheeler Centre Broadcasts (The Wheeler Centre, 26 September 2017) .

    ‘Do We Have Trump to Thank for a Renewal of Democratic Virtues’, The Minefield (ABC Radio National, 24 May 2017) .

    ‘Identity v Bad Journalism’, Just Words (2SER 106.3FM, 27 February 2017) .

  • Erika Arban. Post-doctoral Fellow. 2017 - 2022

    Books, reference works

    Erika Arban (ed), Cities in Federal Constitutional Theory (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

    Erika Arban, Giuseppe Martinico and Francesco Palermo (eds), Federal and Constitutional Law: The Italian Contribution to Comparative Regionalism (Routledge, 2021).

    Contributions to reference works

    Erika Arban, ‘Introduction’ in Erika Arban (ed), Cities in Federal Constitutional Theory (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

    Erika Arban, ‘An Intellectual History of Federalism: The City and the “Unit” Question’ in Erika Arban (ed), Cities in Federal Constitutional Theory (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

    Cheryl Saunders and Erika Arban, ‘Federalism and Local Governments’ in Erika Arban (ed), Cities in Federal Constitutional Theory (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

    Publications in scholarly journals

    Julian R Murphy and Erika Arban, ‘Assessing the Performance of Australian Federalism in Responding to the Pandemic’ (2021) 51(4) Publius: The Journal of Federalism 627.

    Erika Arban and Adriano Dirri, ‘Aspirational Principles in African Federalism: South Africa, Ethiopia and Nigeria Compared’ (2021) 29(3) African Journal of International and Comparative Law 362.

    Erika Arban, ‘City, State: Reflecting on Cities in (Comparative) Constitutional Law’ (2020) 19(1) International Journal of Constitutional Law 343.

    Erika Arban, ‘Editorial: Cities and the Global South’ (2020) 53(1) VRÜ/WCL Verfassung und Recht in Übersee 3.

    Erika Arban, Eleonora Bottini and Dinesha Samaratne, ‘Book Review: Bruce Ackerman, Revolutionary Constitutions: Charismatic Leadership and the Rule of Law’ (2020) 83(5) Modern Law Review 1108.

    Erika Arban, ‘A Research Agenda for Federalism Studies’ (2020) 50(3) Publius: The Journal of Federalism 6.

    Erika Arban, ‘The Nationalism of the Rich: Discourses and Strategies of Separatist Parties in Catalonia, Flanders, Northern Italy and Scotland’ (2020) 30(5) Regional & Federal Studies 682.

    Erika Arban, ‘Metropolitan Cities, Federalism and Socio-economic Challenges’ [2019] Rivista di Diritti Comparati 226.

    Erika Arban, ‘The Referenda For More Autonomy in Veneto and Lombardia: Constitutional and Comparative Perspectives’ (2018) 10(1) Perspectives on Federalism 242.

    Book chapters

    Erika Arban, ‘Italy : The Principle of Solidarity as a Principle of Equality’ in Eva Maria Belser et al (eds), The Principle of Equality in Diverse States: Reconciling Autonomy with Equal Rights and Opportunities (Brill, 2021).

    Erika Arban, ‘Sovereignty and Autonomy of Constituent Units in Federal Regional Systems: A Case Study of Italy’ in Tracy Fenwick and Andrew Banfield (eds), Beyond Autonomy: Practical and Theoretical Challenges to 21st Century Federalism (Brill, 2021).

    Erika Arban, Giuseppe Martinico and Francesco Palermo, ‘Introduction’ in Erika Arban, Giuseppe Martinico and Francesco Palermo (eds), Federal and Constitutional Law: The Italian Contribution to Comparative Regionalism (Routledge, 2021).

    Erika Arban, ‘An Intellectual History of Italian Regionalism’, in Erika Arban, Giuseppe Martinico and Francesco Palermo (eds), Federal and Constitutional Law: The Italian Contribution to Comparative Regionalism (Routledge, 2021).

    Erika Arban, ‘Constitutional Law, Federalism, and the City as Unique Socio-Economic and Political Space’ in Ernst Hirsch Ballin et al (eds), European Yearbook of Constitutional Law 2020: The City in Constitutional Law (Springer, 2020).

    Erika Arban, ‘Survol de la Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Droit: Droit Constitutionnel et Sciences Politiques’ in Stéphane Bernatchez and Louise Lalonde (eds), Approches Et Fondements Du Droit (Éditions Yvon Blais, 2019).

    Erika Arban, ‘The Reference and Ethiopian Constitutionalism’ in Giacomo Delledonne and Giuseppe Martinico (eds), The Canadian Contribution to a Comparative Law of Secession: Legacies of the Quebec Secession Reference (Palgrave McMillan, 2019).

    Blog posts

    Erika Arban, ‘A Critical Review of City, State and Potential Implications for Australian Cities’, Australian Public Law (Blog Post, 7 May 2021) <https://www.auspublaw.org/2021/05/a-critical-review-of-city-state-and-potential-implications-for-australian-cities/>.

    Erika Arban, ‘EU Parliamentary Elections: A Snapshot from Down Under’, Eureka! (Blog Post, 4 April 2019)

    <https://blogs.eurac.edu/eu-elections/eu-parliamentary-elections-a-snapshot-from-down-under/>.

    Other

    ‘Languages and Comparative Constitutional Method’, Constitutional Café (Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, 12 April 2021) < https://player.whooshkaa.com/episode?id=809116>.

  • Dinesha Samararatne. Post-doctoral Fellow. 2019 - 2021

    Books, reference works

    Karen Soldatic and Dinesha Samararatne (eds), Women with Disabilities as Agents of Peace, Change and Rights: Experiences from Sri Lanka (Routledge, 2020).

    Publications in scholarly journals

    Dinesha Samararatne, ‘Sri Lanka's First Election Commission: Strengthening Electoral Management or Advancing Electoral Integrity?’ (2021) 16 Asian Journal of Comparative Law 156.

    William Partlett and Dinesha Samararatne, ‘Redeeming the National in Constitutional Argument’ (2021) 54(4) VRÜ/WCL Verfassung und Recht in Übersee 461.

    Dinesha Samararatne, ‘From South Africa to Sri Lanka: Prospects of Travel For “Transformative Constitutionalism”’ (2020) 15(1) Asian Journal of Comparative Law 45.

    Dinesha Samararatne, ‘Gendering the Legal Complex: Women in Sri Lanka’s Legal Profession’ (2020) 47(4) Journal of Law and Society 666.

    Dinesha Samararatne, ‘Proposals for a New Bill of Rights in Sri Lanka: Narrow Debates, Unmarked Challenges’(2019) 108(6) The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs 667.

    Book chapters

    Dinesha Samararatne, ‘Reframing Feminist Imperatives in Adjudication through a Reading of Sri Lankan Jurisprudence’ in Melissa Crouch (ed), Women and the Judiciary in the Asia-Pacific (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

    News articles

    Dinesha Samararatne, ‘Understanding the ‘Prohibition to Wear Any Garment Concealing the Full Face’, Daily Financial Times (online, 6 May 2019) < https://www.ft.lk/Columnists/Understanding-the-prohibition-to-wear-any-garment-concealing-the-full-face/4-677592>.

    Dinesha Samararatne, ‘Easter Sunday Attacks: A Personal Reflection’ Groundviews (online, 26 April 2019) < https://groundviews.org/2019/04/26/easter-sunday-attacks-a-personal-reflection/>.

    Other

    ‘The Global South in Comparative Constitutional Law’, Constitutional Café (Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, 11 April 2021) <https://player.whooshkaa.com/episode?id=809171>.

    Dinesha Samararatne‘Direct Public Participation in Constitution-Making’ (Policy Brief No 1/2018, Constitution Transformation Network)

    <https://law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/3037974/Policy-Brief-1-19-PublicParticipation.pdf>.

  • Stijn Smet. Post-doctoral Fellow. 2017-2019

    Books, reference works

    Stijn Smet, Resolving Conflicts Between Human Rights: The Judge’s Dilemma (Routledge, 2017).

    Contributions to reference works

    Stijn Smet, ‘Toleration and the Law’ in Mitja Sardoč (ed), The Palgrave Handbook of Toleration (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022).

    Publications in scholarly journals

    Stijn Smet, ‘Review of Günter Frankenberg, Authoritarianism: Constitutional Perspectives’ (2021) 19(2) International Journal of Constitutional Law 769.

    Stijn Smet, ‘Comparative Constitutional Interpretation of Religious Freedom’ (2020) 69(3) International & Comparative Law Quarterly 611.

    Stijn Smet, ‘Free Speech versus Religious Feelings, the Sequel: Defamation of the Prophet Muhammad in ES v Austria’ (2019) 15(1) European Constitutional Law Review 158.

    Stijn Smet, ‘The Pragmatic Case for Legal Tolerance’ (2019) 39(2) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 344.

    Stijn Smet and Christina Angelopoulos, ‘De Zoektocht Naar Een Eerlijke Balans In De Aansprakelijkheid van Tussenpersonen: Het EVRM-perspectief’ [The Search for a Fair Balance in the Liability of Intermediaries: The ECtHR-perspective] [2018] Auteurs & Média 277.

    Stijn Smet, ‘Conscientious Objection through the Contrasting Lenses of Tolerance and Respect’ (2019) 8(1) Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 93.

    Book chapters

    Stijn Smet, ‘Conscientious Objection under the European Convention on Human Rights: The Ugly Duckling of a Flightless Jurisprudence’ in Jeroen Temperman, T Jeremy Gunn and Malcom D Evans (eds), The European Court of Human Rights and the Freedom of Religion or Belief (Brill, 2019).

    Blog posts

    Stijn Smet, ‘The Problem of a Same Sex Marriage Exemption for Civil Celebrants’, Pursuit (Blog Post, 29 November 2017) < https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/the-problem-of-a-same-sex-marriage-exemption-for-civil-celebrants>.

  • Darshan Datar. PhD Candidate. 2018 - present

    Publications in scholarly journals

    Darshan Datar, ‘Book Review: Why Religious Freedom Matters for Democracy: Comparative Reflections from Britain and France for a Democratic “Vivre Ensemble”’ (2021) 19(1) International Journal of Constitutional Law 375.

    Darshan Datar, ‘Religious Autonomy as Secularism’s Silent Partner’ (2018) 17(3) Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 493.

  • Toerien Van Wyk. PhD Candidate. 2018 - present

    Book chapters

    Toerien van Wyk, ‘Accessing Information in South Africa’ in Kevin Walby and Alex Luscombe (eds), Freedom of Information and Social Science Research Design (Routledge, 2019).

    Publications in scholarly journals

    Toerien van Wyk, ‘Don’t Blame the Librarian If No One Has Written the Book: My Vote Counts and the Information Required to Exercise the Franchise’ (2016) 8 Constitutional Court Review 97.

    Blogs

    Toerien van Wyk, ‘A New Role for a New Court: S v Makwanyane’, IACL-AIDC Blog (Blog Post, 17 December 2019) <https://blog-iacl-aidc.org/constitutional-landmark-judgments-in-the-commonwealth/2019/12/17/a-new-role-for-a-new-court-s-v-makwanyane>.