Joel Harrison
Lecturer
Macquarie Law School
Macquarie University
Australia
Biography
Dr Harrison's scholarship focuses on law and religion, human rights, and constitutional law. He received his first law degree from the University of Auckland, serving on the editorial board of the Auckland U. L. Review and graduating as a senior scholar in law. After law school, he clerked for Sir Grant Hammond of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand and was a Teaching Fellow at Victoria University, Wellington. He was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand in 2007. In 2008 he worked as a Legal and Policy Advisor at the New Zealand Law Commission, focusing on sentencing reform. He was then awarded a Woolf Fisher scholarship (NZ) to read for a doctorate in law at the University of Oxford, Magdalen College. While at Oxford, Joel was a Graduate Teaching Assistant in Public Law and he taught Constitutional Law at Lady Margaret Hall and Harris Manchester College. From 2012 till 2014, he was an Associate-in-Law (Lecturer and Post-Doctoral Researcher) at Columbia Law School
Research Interest
law and religion, human rights, and constitutional law.
Publications
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"A communion in good living": human dignity and religious liberty beyond the overlapping consensus Harrison, J. 2013 Understanding human dignity. McCrudden, C. (ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 451-465 15 p. (Proceedings of the British Academy; vol. 192)
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Freedom beyond the commons: managing the tension between faith and equality in a multicultural society Harrison, J. & Parkinson, P. 2014 In : Monash University law review. 40, 2, p. 413-451 39 p.
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Against popular will: why plebiscites need not be binding Harrison, J. 8 Aug 2016 ABC : religion and ethics
