Joel Harrison
- Senior Lecturer, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney
Biography
His research and publications focus on constitutionalism, religious liberty, and human rights norms, with a particular emphasis on the relationship of these to theological ideas, questions, and history. He is the author of Post-Liberal Religious Liberty: Forming Communities of Charity (Cambridge University Press, 2020). He is a graduate of the University of Auckland and the University of Oxford and has previously held positions at Oxford, Columbia Law School, and Macquarie University.
Academic biography
https://www.sydney.edu.au/law/about/our-people/academic-staff/joel-harrison.htmlResearch topics
Current research topics
- The foundations of religious liberty, drawing from comparative case law, theology, political theory, and legal theory.
- Emerging themes in law and religion within Australia (how we understand rights, notions of the public, and the modes of debate).
- Legal understandings of sovereignty and challenges posed to it in theological thought.
- Emerging ideas in Christian accounts of constitutionalism.