Christianity and Constitutionalism
Edited by Nicholas Aroney and Ian Leigh
Author Information
Nicholas Aroney is Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Queensland and Affiliated Faculty of the Centre for Law and Religion at Emory University. He has a law degree from the University of Queensland, a PhD from Monash University and has held visiting positions at Oxford, Cambridge, Paris, Edinburgh, Sydney, Emory and Tilburg universities. He is the author of over 150 articles, book chapters and books on constitutional law, comparative federalism, law and religion, and religious freedom, including The Constitution of a Federal Commonwealth: The Making and Meaning of the Australian Constitution (2009), Shari'a in the West (OUP, 2010) and The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia: History, Principle and Interpretation (2015). In 2010 he also received of a prestigious four-year Future Fellowship from the Australian Research Council to study comparative federalism. In 2017-18 he was appointed to the Australian Prime Minister's Expert Panel on Religious Freedom which submitted its report in May 2018.
Ian Leigh is Emeritus Professor of Law at Durham University. He has held visiting positions at Osgoode Hall Law School and the universities of Otago, Florida, Virginia and Melbourne. He is author of around 100 articles, book chapters and books on public law and human rights including In From the Cold: National Security and Parliamentary Democracy (OUP, 1994), with Laurence Lustgarten, Law Politics and Local Democracy (OUP, 2000), Making Rights Real: the Human Rights Act in its First Decade (2008) with Roger Masterman, and Religious Freedom in the Liberal State (2nd ed, OUP, 2013), with Rex Ahdar. He is currently a British Academy Wolfson Research Professor working on a funded study 'Freedom of Conscience: Emerging Challenges and Future Prospects'.
Contributors:
Nicholas Aroney is Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Queensland School of Law and an Affiliated Faculty member of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University School of Law.
Iain T Benson is a Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame Australia Law School and Extraordinary Professor, University of the Free State, Bloomfontein.
Carlos Bernal is a Judge of the Constitutional Court of Columbia and an Associate Professor at Macquarie University Law School.
Dorothea H Bertschmann is Academic Dean of the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield and an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University.
Jonathan Burnside is Professor of Biblical Law at the University of Bristol Law School.
Jonathan Chaplin is a Faculty Member of the Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto, Canada.
Richard Ekins is an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford Faculty of Law.
Douglas Farrow is Professor of Theology and Christian Thought at the McGill University School of Religious Studies.
Joel Harrison is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney Law School.
Richard Helmholz is the Ruth Wyatt Rosenson Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.
Mary Keys is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
Ian Leigh is Emeritus Professor of Law at Durham University.
Peter Leithart is President of the Theopolis Institute for or Biblical, Liturgical, & Cultural Studies in Birmingham, Alabama.
Joan Lockwood O'Donovan is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh School of Divinity.
David McIlroy is a Barrister at Law at Forum Chambers, London and Visiting Professor at the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies.
John Milbank is Emeritus Professor at the University of Nottingham Department of Theology and Religious Studies.
Colleen Mitchell is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Princeton University.
Julian Rivers is Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Bristol Law School.
Tracey Rowland holds the John Paul II Chair of Theology at the University of Notre Dame Australia.
Li-ann Thio is a Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore Law School.
David VanDrunen is Robert B Strimple Professor of Systematic Theology and Christian Ethics at Westminster Seminary, California.
John Witte Jnr is Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law, Alonzo L McDonald Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University School of Law.
