Biography
George completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2011 and his JD at the Melbourne Law School in 2018. George's main research areas are the philosophy of law, constitutional theory and the history of political and legal thought. He has published in leading journals on these topics, including International Journal of Constitutional Law, Global Constitutionalism, German Law Journal, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Legal Theory, Law and Philosophy, European Law Review, American Journal of Jurisprudence, European Journal of Political Theory, Political Studies and History of Political Thought. In 2018 George was awarded the Zines Prize for the best 2017 article published in the Federal Law Review. He is the author of Aristotle and Law: The Politics of Nomos (CUP, 2019) - recently translated into Spanish - and co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Jurisprudence (CUP, 2017). George is currently a chief investigator on the ARC Discovery Project (DP220100967) Constituent Power in Federal Constitutions, and is a member of the editorial board of the American Journal of Jurisprudence.
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Funded Projects at Deakin
Australian Competitive Grants
Constituent power in federal constitutions
Prof Nicholas Aroney, A/Prof George Duke
ARC - Discovery Projects
- 2024: $33,835
- 2023: $51,295
- 2022: $46,117
Supervisions
Linda Wollersheim
Thesis entitled: Comparing the Politics of Energy Transition Discourses in Germany and Australia
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Joshua Badge
Thesis entitled: Reconciling authority with reason: Gadamer and the problem of authority
Master of Arts, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Brodie Kennelly
Thesis entitled: Toward a Neo-Lockean Account of Our Obligations to the Dead
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Daniel Jeffrey Edward Townsend
Thesis entitled: Leo Strauss and Islam
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences