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Jonathan Crowe

Senior Lecturer   Office: W232A Forgan Smith building, St Lucia campus Phone: +61 7 33657180 Fax: +61 7 33651454 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 theoretical relationship between law and ethics, looking particularly at the nature and foundations of legal obligation and the role of ethics in legal reasoning. He has also published work on international humanitarian law, family law and alternative dispute resolution.

Jonathan has contributed articles to leading international and Australian journals, including the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Ratio Juris, the Melbourne University Law Review and the Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy. He is the author of Legal Theory (Law Book Company, 2009). He is spending the first half of 2010 as a Visiting Scholar in the Philosophy Department at Georgetown University, where he is working on a book on the natural law tradition in ethics and jurisprudence.

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