Nicholas Aroney is Professor of Constitutional Law and Director of the Center for Public, International, and Comparative Law at The University of Queensland. He is also Senior Fellow of the Center for Law and Religion at Emory University, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. He has published over 160 journal articles, book chapters, and books in the fields of comparative constitutional law and law and religion and has held visiting positions at Oxford, Cambridge, Paris II, Notre Dame, Edinburgh, Durham, Sydney, Emory, and Padua universities. His most notable publications include: The Constitution of a Federal Commonwealth (Cambridge, 2009), Shari’a in the West (Oxford, 2010), The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia (Cambridge, 2015) and Christianity and Constitutionalism (Oxford, 2022). In 2017, Aroney was appointed by the Australian Prime Minister to an Expert Panel to advise whether Australian law adequately protects freedom of religion. He is also a member of the editorial advisory board of the American Journal of Jurisprudence, Public Law Review, and the Australian Journal of Law and Religion. He is currently undertaking an Australian Research Council funded project on constituent power in federal systems.
