Professor Rosalind Dixon
BA/LLB (国民彩票). LLM, SJD (Harvard).
Rosalind Dixon is a Professor of Law, at the University of New South Wales, Faculty of Law. She earned her BA and LLB from the University of New South Wales, and was an associate to the Chief Justice of Australia, the Hon. Murray Gleeson AC, before attending Harvard Law School, where she obtained an LLM and SJD. Her work focuses on comparative constitutional law and constitutional design, constitutional democracy, theories of constitutional dialogue and amendment, socio-economic rights and constitutional law and gender, and has been published in leading journals in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia, including the聽Chicago Law Review,听Cornell Law Review,听GW Law Review,听University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law,听International Journal of Constitutional Law,听American Journal of Comparative Law,听Osgoode Hall Law Journal,听Oxford Journal of Legal Studies,听Federal Law Review聽补苍诲听Sydney Law Review. She is co-editor, with Tom Ginsburg, of a leading handbook on comparative constitutional law,听Comparative Constitutional Law聽(Edward Elgar, 2011), and related volumes on聽Comparative Constitutional Law in Asia聽(Edward Elgar, 2014) 补苍诲听Comparative Constitutional Law in Latin America聽(Edward Elgar, 2017), co-editor (with Mark Tushnet and Susan Rose-Ackermann) of the Edward Elgar series on Constitutional and Administrative Law, on the editorial board of the聽International Journal of Constitutional Law,听Revista Estudos Institucionais,听Public Law Review, and editor of the聽Constitutions of the World聽series for Hart Publishing. Dixon is a Manos聽Research Fellow, Director of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, Deputy Director of the Herbert Smith Freehills Initiative on Law and Economics, Co-Director of the 国民彩票 New Economic Equality Initiative (NEEI), and academic co-lead of the Grand Challenge on Inequality at 国民彩票. She previously served as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School, and has been a visiting聽professor at the University of Chicago, Columbia Law School, Harvard Law School and the National University of Singapore. She is聽immediate past co-president of the . She is a聽Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and Australian Academy of Social Sciences, and ARC Future Fellow working on Constitutions 补苍诲听Democratic Resilience.
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Dixon was recently named 鈥楢cademic of the Year鈥櫬燼t the 18th听础苍苍耻补濒听Lawyers Weekly聽Australian Law Awards in 2018.
Dixon鈥檚 current research focuses on forms of constitutional design and practice aimed at responding to the current wave of democratic backsliding worldwide, and the design of more 鈥榬esponsive鈥 and resilient models of judicial review in constitutional democracies more generally.聽 She is also working on a variety of projects on economic equality and inclusion, including proposals for an Australian Carbon Dividend聽, a move toward Social Return Accounting聽, and more economic stability for low-income families, through models of social emergency lending and saving聽; in addition to several projects on gender equality, including聽projects on non-traditional job-sharing聽, and new models of sexual harassment law.