Professor Rosalind Dixon
BA/LLB (UNSW). LLM, SJD (Harvard).
Rosalind Dixon is a Professor of Law, at the University of New South Wales, Faculty of Law. She earned her BA and LLB from the University of New South Wales, and was an associate to the Chief Justice of Australia, the Hon. Murray Gleeson AC, before attending Harvard Law School, where she obtained an LLM and SJD. Her work focuses on comparative constitutional law and constitutional design, constitutional democracy, theories of constitutional dialogue and amendment, socio-economic rights and constitutional law and gender, and has been published in leading journals in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia, including the Chicago Law Review, Cornell Law Review, GW Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, International Journal of Constitutional Law, American Journal of Comparative Law, Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Federal Law Review and Sydney Law Review. She is co-editor, with Tom Ginsburg, of a leading handbook on comparative constitutional law, Comparative Constitutional Law (Edward Elgar, 2011), and related volumes on Comparative Constitutional Law in Asia (Edward Elgar, 2014) and Comparative Constitutional Law in Latin America (Edward Elgar, 2017), co-editor (with Mark Tushnet and Susan Rose-Ackermann) of the Edward Elgar series on Constitutional and Administrative Law, on the editorial board of the International Journal of Constitutional Law, Revista Estudos Institucionais, Public Law Review, and editor of the Constitutions of the World series for Hart Publishing. Dixon is a Manos Research Fellow, Director of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, Deputy Director of the Herbert Smith Freehills Initiative on Law and Economics, Co-Director of the UNSW New Economic Equality Initiative (NEEI), and academic co-lead of the Grand Challenge on Inequality at UNSW. She previously served as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School, and has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, Columbia Law School, Harvard Law School and the National University of Singapore. She was recently elected as co-president of the International Society of Public Law: https://www.icon-society.org/.

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Sigalet G; Webber G; Dixon R, 2019, Constitutional dialogue: Rights, democracy, institutions, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108277938
Delaney EF; Dixon R, 2018, Comparative judicial review, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781788110600
Dixon R; Ginsburg T, 2017, Comparative constitutional law in Latin America, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781785369216
Dixon R; Ginsburg T, 2014, Introduction, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781781002704.00006
Ginsburg T; Dixon R, 2011, Comparative constitutional law, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9780857931214
Dixon R, 2009, Updating constitutional rules, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/653651
Williams G; Dixon R, (ed.), 2015, The High Court, The Constitution and Australian Politics, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/CBO9781107445253
Dixon R; Ginsburg T, 2014, Comparative Constitutional Law in Asia, Edward Elgar Publishing, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781781002704
Dixon R; Ginsburg T, 2011, Comparative Constitutional Law, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9780857931214
Dixon R, 2020, 'Gender and Constitutional Monarchy in Comparative Perspective', Royal Studies Journal, vol. 7, pp. 1 - 9
Dixon R, 2020, 'Calibrated Proportionality', Federal Law Review, vol. 48, pp. 92 - 122, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0067205X19890439
Dixon R; Landau D, 2020, 'Constitutional End Games: Making Presidential Term Limits Stick', HASTINGS LAW JOURNAL, vol. 71, pp. 359 - 418, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000592383700003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
Dixon R, 2019, 'Introduction'Public law and populism', German Law Journal, vol. 20, pp. 125 - 128, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/glj.2019.8
Dixon R, 2019, 'The forms, functions, and varieties of weak(ened) judicial review', ICON-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, vol. 17, pp. 904 - 930, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icon/moz059
Dixon R; Landau D, 2019, '1989-2019: From democratic to abusive constitutional borrowing', International Journal of Constitutional Law, vol. 17, pp. 489 - 496, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icon/moz038
Dixon R; Baldwin G, 2019, 'Globalizing constitutional moments? A reflection on the Japanese article 9 debate', American Journal of Comparative Law, vol. 67, pp. 145 - 176, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avz002
Dixon R, 2019, 'How to Compare Constitutionally', Latin American Law Review, http://dx.doi.org/10.29263/lar03.2019.01
Dixon R, 2019, 'Rule of Law Teleology: Against the Misuse and Abuse of Rule of Law Rhetoric', Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, vol. 11, pp. 461 - 464, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40803-019-00095-1
Dixon R; Jackson V, 2019, 'Hybrid constitutional courts: Foreign judges on national constitutional courts', Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, vol. 57, pp. 283 - 356, http://blogs2.law.columbia.edu/jtl/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2019/07/f-Dixon_Hybrid-Constitutional-Courts-Online.pdf
Landau DE; Dixon R; Roznai Y, 2019, 'From an unconstitutional constitutional amendment to an unconstitutional constitution? Lessons from Honduras', Global Constitutionalism, vol. 8, pp. 40 - 70, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S2045381718000151
Appleby G; Dixon R, 2018, 'Extending the critical re-reading project', Notre Dame Law Review, vol. 94, pp. 37 - 43
Dixon R, 2018, 'Proportionality and comparative constitutional law versus studies', Law and Ethics of Human Rights, vol. 12, pp. 203 - 224, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lehr-2018-0012
Dixon R, 2018, 'Editorial', International Journal of Constitutional Law, vol. 16, pp. 1049 - 1070, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icon/moy111
Casini L; Dixon R, 2018, 'Editorial', International Journal of Constitutional Law, vol. 16, pp. 735 - 740, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icon/moy074
Dixon R; Landau D, 2018, 'Tiered constitutional design', George Washington Law Review, vol. 86, pp. 438 - 512, https://www.gwlr.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/86-Geo.-Wash.-L.-Rev.-438.pdf
Dixon R, 2018, 'Liberal constitutionalism and economic inequality', University of Chicago Law Review, vol. 85, pp. 369 - 401, https://lawreview.uchicago.edu/publication/liberal-constitutionalism-and-economic-inequality
Dixon R, 2018, 'On law and economic inequality: a response to Philip Alston', Australian Journal of Human Rights, vol. 24, pp. 276 - 280, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1323238X.2018.1502014
Dixon R; Uhlmann F, 2018, 'The Swiss Constitution and a weak-form unconstitutional amendment doctrine?', International Journal of Constitutional Law, vol. 16, pp. 54 - 74, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icon/moy004
Dixon R; Landau D, 2017, 'Transnational constitutionalism and a limited doctrine of unconstitutional constitutional amendment: A rejoinder to Sujit Choudhry', International Journal of Constitutional Law, vol. 15, pp. 833 - 838, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icon/mox054
Dixon R; Ginsburg T, 2017, 'The forms and limits of constitutions as political insurance', International Journal of Constitutional Law, vol. 15, pp. 988 - 1012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icon/mox080
Davis M; Dixon R, 2016, 'CONSTITUTIONAL RECOGNITION THROUGH A (JUSTICIABLE) DUTY TO CONSULT? TOWARDS ENTRENCHED AND JUDICIALLY ENFORCEABLE NORMS OF INDIGENOUS CONSULTATION', PUBLIC LAW REVIEW, vol. 27, pp. 255 - 263, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000388750200002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
Dixon R, 2016, 'Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Opinions of the United States Supreme Court', PUBLIC LAW REVIEW, vol. 27, pp. 232 - 235, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000382955600006&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
Dixon R, 2016, 'Constitutional Carve-outs', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, vol. Oxf J Leg Stud (2016) gqw015, 2016, pp. 1 - 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqw015
Dixon R; Issacharoff S, 2016, 'Living to fight another day: Judicial deferral in defense of democracy', Wisconsin Law Review, vol. 2016, pp. 683 - 731
Dixon R, 2016, 'Book Review: Toward a realistic comparative constitutional studies?', AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW, vol. 64, pp. 193 - 200, http://dx.doi.org/10.5131/AJCL.2016.0007
Dixon R, 2016, 'An Australian (partial) bill of rights', International Journal of Constitutional Law, vol. 14, pp. 80 - 98, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icon/mow004
Butt S; Crouch M; Dixon R, 2016, 'The First Decade of Indonesia’s Constitutional Court', Australian Journal of Asian Law, vol. 16, pp. 1 - 7, http://ssrn.com/abstract=2745100
Dixon R; Williams G, 2015, 'The high court, the constitution and Australian politics', The High Court, the Constitution and Australian Politics, pp. 1 - 335, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/CBO9781107445253
Dixon RJ; Landau D, 2015, 'Transnational constitutionalism and a limited doctrine of unconstitutional constitutional amendment', International Journal of Constitutional Law, vol. 13, pp. 606 - 638, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icon/mov039
Dixon R, 2015, 'Constitutional drafting and distrust', International Journal of Constitutional Law, vol. 13, pp. 819 - 846, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icon/mov068
Dixon RJ, 2015, 'Response to Commentators', Federal Law Review, vol. 43, pp. 517 - 521, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2108293
Dixon RJ, 2015, 'The Functional Constitution: re-reading the 2014 High Court Constitutional Term', Federal Law Review, vol. 43, pp. 455 - 492
Dixon R, 2015, 'Partial Bills of Rights', AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW, vol. 63, pp. 403 - 437, http://dx.doi.org/10.5131/AJCL.2015.0011
Dixon R, 2015, 'Constraining Constitutional Change', Wake Forest Law Review, vol. 50, pp. 859 - 859
Dixon RJ, 2013, 'The Supreme Court of Canada and Constitutional (Equality) Baselines', Osgoode Hall Law Journal, vol. 50, pp. 637 - 668, http://www.ohlj.ca/
Dixon RJ; Nussbaum M, 2012, 'Children’s Rights & a Capabilities Approach: The Question of Special Priorit', Cornell Law Review, vol. 97, pp. 546 - 594, http://heinonline.org.wwwproxy0.library.unsw.edu.au/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/clqv97&id=565&collection=journals&index=journals/clqv
Calabresi G; Davis D; Dixon R; Grimm D; Gudridge PO; Minow M; Radin MJ, 2012, 'IN TRIBUTE: FRANK I. MICHELMAN', HARVARD LAW REVIEW, vol. 125, pp. 879 - 900, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000311569300001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
Dixon R, 2012, 'A NEW (INTER)NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS EXPERIMENT FOR AUSTRALIA', PUBLIC LAW REVIEW, vol. 23, pp. 75 - 80, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000421536300002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
Dixon RJ; Ginsburg T, 2012, 'The South African Constitutional Court & an Insurance-Based Theory of Socio-economic Rights', Constitutional Court Review, vol. 4, pp. 1 - 30, http://www.pulp.up.ac.za/cat_2012_09.html
Dixon R; Ginsburg T, 2011, 'Deciding not to decide: Deferral in constitutional design', International Journal of Constitutional Law, vol. 9, pp. 636 - 672, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icon/mor041
Dixon R; Ginsburg T, 2011, 'Introduction', Comparative Constitutional Law, pp. 1 - 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9780857931214.00006
Dixon R, 2008, 'A democratic theory of constitutional comparison', American Journal of Comparative Law, vol. 56, pp. 947 - 998, http://dx.doi.org/10.5131/ajcl.2007.0032
Dixon R, 2007, 'Creating dialogue about socioeconomic rights: Strong-form versus weak-form judicial review revisited', International Journal of Constitutional Law, vol. 5, pp. 391 - 418, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icon/mom021
Dixon R, 2005, 'Review article: The Ethics and Politics of Asylum', Australian Journal of Human Rights, vol. 11, pp. 263 - 278, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1323238X.2005.11910800
Dixon RJ, 2002, 'Rape as a Crime in International Humanitarian Law: Where to from Here?', European journal of international law, vol. 13, pp. 697 - 719
Dixon R; Roux T, 2020, 'Marking Constitutional Transitions: The Law and Politics of Constitutional Implementation in South Africa', in Ginsburg T; Huq A (ed.), From Parchment to Practice: Challenges of Implementing New Constitutions, Cambridge University Press, New York, pp. 53 - 75, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108767859
Landau D; Dixon R, 2019, 'Constitutional non-transformation?: Socioeconomic rights beyond the poor', in The Future of Economic and Social Rights, pp. 110 - 134, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108284653.005
Dixon R, 2019, 'Constitutional ‘dialogue’ and deference', in Constitutional Dialogue: Rights, Democracy, Institutions, pp. 161 - 185, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108277938.007
Sigalet G; Webber G; Dixon R, 2019, 'Introduction: The ‘what’ and ‘why’ of constitutional dialogue', in Constitutional Dialogue: Rights, Democracy, Institutions, pp. 1 - 32, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108277938.002
Dixon R; Chowdhury R, 2019, 'A case for qualified hope? The supreme court of India and the midday meal decision', in A Qualified Hope: The Indian Supreme Court and Progressive Social Change, pp. 243 - 268
Delaney EF; Dixon R, 2018, 'Comparative Judicial Review Introduction', in Delaney EF; Dixon R (ed.), COMPARATIVE JUDICIAL REVIEW, EDWARD ELGAR PUBLISHING LTD, pp. 1 - 11, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000562597000001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
Appleby G; Lim B, 2018, 'Democratic Experimentalism', in Dixon R (ed.), Australian Constitutional Values, Hart Publishing, pp. 221 - 242, https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/australian-constitutional-values-9781509918416/
Appleby G; Dixon R, 2018, 'Constitutional Implications in Australia: Explaining the Structure – Rights Dualism', in Dixon R; Stone A (ed.), The Invisible Constitution in Comparative Perspective, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 343 - 375, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108277914.012
Roux T; Dixon R, 2018, 'Introduction', in Dixon R; Roux T (ed.), Constitutional Triumphs, Constitutional Disappointments: A Critical Assessment of the 1996 South African Constitution’s Local and International Influence, Cambridge University Press, New York, United States, pp. 1 - 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108233231
Dixon R; Ginsburg T, 2018, 'Constitutions as political insurance: Variants and limits', in Comparative Judicial Review, pp. 36 - 59
Dixon R; Bond J, 2017, 'Constitutions and reproductive rights: Convergence and non-convergence', in Constitutions and Gender: Research Handbooks in Comparative Constitutional Law Series, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 438 - 462, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781784716967.00026
Dixon R; Ginsburg T, 2017, 'Comparative constitutional law in Latin America: An introduction', in Comparative Constitutional Law in Latin America, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 1 - 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781785369216.00006
Dixon RJ; Vogt M, 2016, 'Comparative Constitutional Law and the Kable Doctrine', in Ananian-Welsh R; Crowe J (ed.), Judicial Independence in Australia: Contemporary Challenges, Future Directions, Federation Press, Australia
Dixon RJ, 2016, 'Competitive Democracy and the Constitutional Minimum Core', in Assessing Constitutional Performance, Cambridge University Press, pp. 268 - 292, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316651018.010
Dixon RJ, 2016, 'A Capabilities Approach', in The Critical Judgments Project Re-Reading Monis V the Queen
Appleby G; dixon R, 2016, 'Critical Thinking in Constitutional Law and Monis v The Queen', in appleby G; dixon R (ed.), The Critical Judgments Project: Rereading Monis v The Queen, pp. 1 - 1
Dixon RJ, 2016, 'Constitutional Amendment and Political Constitutionalism: A Philosophical and Comparative Reflection', in Dyzenhaus D; Thorburn M (ed.), Philosophical Foundations of Constitutional Law, Oxford University Press, USA, UK
Williams G; Dixon R, 2015, 'Introduction', in Williams G; Dixon R (ed.), The High Court, the Constitution and Australian Politics, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1 - 17, http://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/43664/toc/9781107043664_toc.pdf
Dixon R; Lau S, 2015, 'The Gleeson court and the Howard era: A tale of two conservatives (and isms)', in Dixon R; Williams G (ed.), The High Court, the Constitution and Australian Politics, Cambridge University Press, pp. 284 - 310, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/CBO9781107445253
Dixon R; Ginsburg T, 2014, 'Introduction', in Dixon R; Ginsburg T (ed.), Comparative Constitutional Law in Asia, EDWARD ELGAR PUBLISHING LTD, pp. 1 - 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0725513602071011001
Dixon RJ; Tushnet M, 2014, 'Weak-Form Review and its Constitutional Relatives: An Asian Perspective', in Dixon R; Ginsburg T (ed.), Comparative Constitutional Law in Asia, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 102 - 120, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781781002704.00011
Dixon RJ; Nussbaum M, 2012, 'Abortion, dignity, and a capabilities approach', in Baines E; Barak-Erez D; Kahana T (ed.), Feminist constitutionalism : global perspectives, Cambridge University Press, New York, pp. 64 - 84, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511980442.006
Dixon RJ; Holden R, 2012, 'Constitutional Amendment Rules: The Denominator Problem', in Ginsburg T (ed.), Comparative Constitutional Design, Cambridge University Press, New York, pp. 195 - 218, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139105712.011
Dixon R, 2011, 'Constitutional amendment rules: A comparative perspective', in Comparative Constitutional Law, pp. 96 - 111, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9780857931214.00012
Markowski S; Hall PH; Wylie RC, 2009, 'Introduction', in Markowski S; Hall P; Wylie R (ed.), Defence Procurement and Industry Policy: A Small Country Perspective, edn. 1, Routledge, London & New York, pp. 1 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/word.2012.0016
Dixon R; Holden R, 2018, A Climate Dividend for Australians, UNSW, Sydney
Appleby G; dixon R; brennan S; mckinnon G, 2016, Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, ‘Free speech inquiry’
Conference Presentations
Dixon RJ; Issacharoff S, 2017, 'Constitutional Court Transitions', presented at I.Con-S Conference, Copenhagen, 05 July 2017 - 07 July 2017
Dixon was recently named ‘Academic of the Year’ at the 18th Annual Lawyers Weekly Australian Law Awards in 2018.
Constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, constitutional design, constitutional amendment, socio-economic rights, law and gender