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A/Prof. George Duke

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Position

Associate Head of School, International and Engagement

Faculty

Faculty of Arts and Education

Department

School of Hum & Social Science

Campus

Melbourne Burwood Campus

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 JournalOxford Journal of Legal Studies, Legal Theory, Law and Philosophy, European Law Review, American Journal of Jurisprudence, European Journal of Political TheoryPolitical 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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Publications

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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

Principal Supervisor
2023

Linda Wollersheim

Thesis entitled: Comparing the Politics of Energy Transition Discourses in Germany and Australia

Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences

2020

Joshua Badge

Thesis entitled: Reconciling authority with reason: Gadamer and the problem of authority

Master of Arts, School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Associate Supervisor
2022

Brodie Kennelly

Thesis entitled: Toward a Neo-Lockean Account of Our Obligations to the Dead

Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences

2014

Daniel Jeffrey Edward Townsend

Thesis entitled: Leo Strauss and Islam

Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences