Jeffrey Goldsworthy

Jeffrey Denys Goldsworthy is an Australian academic and legal philosopher. He is known for his work in philosophy of law, as well as constitutional theory and interpretation.[1]

He holds a Personal Chair at Monash University Faculty of Law.[2] He is also the President of the Australian Society of Legal Philosophy. He is known for work on parliamentary sovereignty, especially for his book The Sovereignty of Parliament: History and Philosophy.[3] In constitutional theory, he is a proponent of originalism.

He is the younger brother of author Peter Goldsworthy.[4]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.assa.edu.au/fellows/profile.php?id=546
  2. ↑ http://www.law.monash.edu.au/staff/jgoldsworthy.html
  3. ↑ Goldsworthy, Jeffrey (2001). The Sovereignty of Parliament: History and Philosophy. OUP Oxford. p. 336. ISBN 978-0-19-924808-7.
  4. ↑ http://www.adelaide.edu.au/lumen/issues/45341/news45701.html
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