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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A Theory of Plural Constituent Power for Federal Systems
Nicholas Aroney, George Duke, Stephen Tierney
(2024), Global Constitutionalism, Cambridge, Eng., C1
Constitutional Symbolism in the Shadow of the Common Good
George Duke
(2024), pp. 1-24, German Law Journal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1
Constitutional Symbolism in the Shadow of the Common Good
G Duke
(2024), pp. 1-18, German Law Journal, Cambridge, Eng., C1
Can the People Exercise Constituent Power?
George Duke
(2023), pp. 1-28, International Journal of Constitutional Law, Oxford, Eng., C1
Habermas, Popular Sovereignty, and the Legitimacy of Law
George Duke
(2023), pp. 1-30, Law and Critique: journal of critical legal studies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1
Between Constituent Power and Constituent Authority
G Duke, E Arcioni
(2022), Vol. 42, pp. 345-365, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, C1
Explanatory Causes in Aristotle's Constitutional Theory
G Duke
(2022), Vol. 117, pp. 45-62, Classical Philology, Chicago, Illinois, C1
Constituent Power and the Commonwealth Constitution
George Duke, Carlo Dellora
(2022), Vol. 44, pp. 199-227, The Sydney Law Review, Sydney, N.S.W., C1
Constituent Power and the Commonwealth Constitution: A Preliminary Investigation
G Duke, C Dellora
(2022), Vol. 44, pp. 199-227, Sydney Law Review, Sydney, N.S.W., C1
Aristotle and Modern Constitutionalism
George Duke
(2022), Vol. 4, pp. 66-90, Ancient Philosophy Today, Edinburgh, Scotland, C1
Constant's liberal theory of popular sovereignty
G Duke
(2021), Vol. 29, pp. 848-870, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, C1
The Principle of the Common Good
George Duke
(2020), pp. 251-266, Christianity and Global Law, Abingdon, Oxon, B1
Strong popular sovereignty and constitutional legitimacy
G Duke
(2020), Vol. 19, pp. 354-374, European journal of political theory, London, Eng., C1
Law as rational constraint: Nicomachean ethics x 9
George Duke
(2020), Vol. 40, pp. 1-19, Ancient philosophy, Charlottesville, Va., C1
Inherent constraints on constituent power
George Duke
(2020), Vol. 40, pp. 795-818, Oxford journal of legal studies, Oxford, Eng., C1
Carl Schmitt's Political Romanticism and the Foundations of Law
G Duke
(2020), Vol. 9, pp. 413-434, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, C1
The Aristotelian legislator and political naturalism
George Duke
(2020), Vol. 70, pp. 620-638, Classical quarterly, Cambridge, Eng., C1
Aristotle as natural law theorist
George Duke
(2019), pp. 13-30, Research handbook on natural law theory, Cheltenham, Eng., B1
G Duke
(2019), Vol. 38, pp. 1-27, Law and philosophy, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, C1
European Constitutionalism and constituent power
G Duke
(2019), Vol. 44, pp. 49-65, European law review, London, Eng., C1
Sovereignty and the common good
G Duke
(2019), Vol. 17, pp. 66-88, International Journal of Constitutional Law, C1
Aristotle on constitutional and legal reform
George Duke
(2019), Vol. 40, pp. 381-404, History of political thought, Exeter, Eng., C1
George Duke
(2019), Vol. 82, pp. 1-23, Review of politics, Cambridge, Eng., C1
Plato's Gorgias and the Power of 'Greek passage'
G Duke
(2018), Vol. 100, pp. 1-18, Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie, C1
George Duke, Robert George
(2017), pp. 1-14, The Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Jurisprudence, Cambridge, Eng., B1
G Duke
(2017), pp. 369-396, The Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Jurisprudence, Cambridge, Eng., B1
Political authority and the common good
G Duke
(2017), Vol. 65, pp. 877-892, Political studies, London, Eng., C1
Popular sovereignty and the nationhood power
G Duke
(2017), Vol. 45, pp. 415-444, Federal law review, Acton, A.C.T., C1
Husserl and the Problem of Abstract Objects
G Duke, P Woelert
(2016), Vol. 97, pp. 27-47, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, C1
G Duke
(2016), Vol. 78, pp. 227-250, Review of Politics, Cambridge, Eng., C1
Two functions of Aristotle's common advantage
G Duke
(2016), Vol. 37, pp. 195-215, History of political thought, Exeter, Eng., C1
AQUINAS, KANT, AND THE ECLIPSE OF PRACTICAL REASON
George Duke
(2016), Vol. 69, pp. 709-738, REVIEW OF METAPHYSICS, C1
The weak natural law thesis and the common good
G Duke
(2016), Vol. 35, pp. 485-509, Law and Philosophy, C1
Dummett, the Frege-Husserl exchange and the analytical tradition
G Duke
(2015), pp. 211-230, Dummett on analytical philosophy, Basingstoke, Eng., B1
The planning theory and natural law
G Duke
(2015), Vol. 34, pp. 173-200, Law and philosophy, Berlin, Germany, C1
Gadamer and political authority
G Duke
(2014), Vol. 13, pp. 25-40, European journal of political theory, London, England, C1
Hobbes on political authority, practical reason and truth
G Duke
(2014), Vol. 33, pp. 605-627, Law and philosophy, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, C1
Aristotle and the authoritativeness of politikē
G Duke
(2014), Vol. 22, pp. 631-654, British journal for the history of philosophy, Abingdon, England, C1
Dummett and the problem of abstract objects
G Duke
(2013), Vol. XXXII, pp. 61-75, Teorema, Murcia, Spain, C1
Finnis on the authority of law and the common good
G Duke
(2013), Vol. 19, pp. 44-62, Legal theory, Cambridge, England, C1
The Aristotelian spoudaios as ethical exemplar in Finnis's natural law theory
G Duke
(2013), Vol. 58, pp. 183-204, American journal of jurisprudence, Notre Dame, Indiana, C1
G Duke
(2012), pp. 1-14, Internet encyclopedia of philosophy, [unknown], C1
The syntactic priority thesis and ontological disputes
G Duke
(2012), Vol. 42, pp. 149-164, Canadian journal of philosophy, Calgary, Canada, C1
Abstract singular terms and thin reference
G Duke
(2012), Vol. 78, pp. 276-292, Theoria : a Swedish journal of philosophy, West Sussex, England, C1
Post-analytic philosophy : overcoming the divide?
G Duke, E Walsh, J Chase, J Reynolds
(2011), pp. 7-24, Postanalytic and metacontinental : crossing philosophical divides, London, England, B1-1
Dummett and the origins of analytical philosophy
G Duke
(2009), Vol. 63, pp. 329-347, The review of metaphysics, Washington, D.C., C1-1
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