John Morss

John Morss

Associate Head of School (Research)

>BSc (Hons) Sheff, PhD Edin, LLB (Hons) Otago, Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand and the Supreme Court of Victoria

Campus: Melbourne Burwood Campus
Phone: +61 3 924 46236
Email: john.morss@deakin.edu.au

Link to Research Output

  • Morss J. R. (2009) 'The Legal Relations of Collectives: Belated Insights from Hohfeld.' 22/2 Leiden Journal of International Law 289-305
  • Morss J. R. (2008) 'Can Custom be Incorporated in Law? On the place of the empirical in the identification of norms.' 53 The American Journal of Jurisprudence 85-99
  • Morss J. R. (2007) Good Global Governance: Custom, the Cosmopolitan and International Law. 3 (1) International Journal of Law in Context 59-71
  • Morss J.R. (2004) Heteronomy as the Challenge to Nation: A critique of collective and of individual rights. 8 Law, Text, Culture 167-190
  • Morss J.R. (2003) Saving Human Rights from its Friends: A critique of the imaginary justice of Costas Douzinas. 27 Melbourne University Law Review 889-904
  • Morss J.R. (2003) Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Fish? Rethinking what the law wishes to have. 27 Melbourne University Law Review 199-216

Teaching Interests

  • International Law

Research Interests

  • International Law
  • International Criminal Law
  • Legal Theory
  • Human Rights
  • Childhood and Family Law
  • Intellectual Property

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30th January 2012