Jonathan Crowe

Associate Professor Office: W232A Forgan Smith building, St Lucia campus Phone: +61 7 (336) 57180 Fax: +61 7 (336) 51454 Email: j.crowe@law.uq.edu.au Consultation: Thursdays 2pm - 4pm

Biography

Jonathan  Crowe teaches legal theory, constitutional law and international humanitarian  law. He holds a PhD in law and philosophy from the University of Queensland, as  well as honours degrees in both disciplines. His research examines the  philosophical relationship between law and ethics, looking at issues such as  the nature and foundations of legal obligation and the role of ethics in legal  reasoning. He has published widely on natural law theory and existentialist  ethics, particularly the work of Emmanuel Levinas. He has also published  research on constitutional law, international humanitarian law, criminal law,  family law, corporations law and alternative dispute resolution.

Jonathan  has contributed articles to leading international and Australian journals,  including the Modern Law Review, the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies,  the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, the Melbourne  University Law Review and the Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy.  He is the author of Legal Theory (Thomson Reuters, 2009), co-author with  Suri Ratnapala of Australian Constitutional Law: Foundations and Theory (3rd ed, Oxford University Press, 2012) and co-author with Kylie  Weston-Scheuber of Principles of International Humanitarian Law (Edward  Elgar, forthcoming). He is currently working on a book on the natural law  tradition in ethics and jurisprudence.

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