Jesse Hartery

Jesse Hartery is a Ph.D. candidate at Melbourne Law School. His research interests cover the areas of legal theory, multi-level governance and legal traditions.

Prior to joining the Law School, Jesse was a commercial and constitutional litigator in Canada. He has also served as a Law Clerk to Justice Nicholas Kasirer at the Supreme Court of Canada.

Jesse’s scholarship has notably been published in the McGill Law Journal, the Alberta Law Review, Policy Options, the McGill International Review, the Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law, and the International Journal of Constitutional Law. He has also been invited to present his work in Canada, Germany, Myanmar, and Russia.

Jesse holds an Honours B.A. in History and Asian Studies from the University of Ottawa, degrees in common law (J.D.) and civil law (B.C.L.) from McGill University, and a postgraduate diploma in Federalism, Decentralisation and Conflict Resolution from the University of Fribourg. He is called to the bar in Québec, a civil law jurisdiction, and Ontario, a common law jurisdiction. He is the recipient of the Ronald L. Watts Young Scholar Award from the International Association of Centres for Federal Studies.

• Administrative/Public Law
• Comparative Constitutional Law
• Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations
• Legal Theory