Faculty of Business and Law

School of Law

John Morss

John Morss

Senior Lecturer

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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18th July 2012