Professor Simon Evans
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Simon Evans is a Professor in the Melbourne Law School and the University of Melbourne's Pro Vice-Chancellor (International). As Pro Vice-Chancellor (International), Professor Simon Evans works on the University’s international strategy and international relationships, under the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement). His scholarly work is as a comparative public lawyer, with broad interests in constitutional and administrative law, particularly in common law and Commonwealth countries. He holds an ARC funded Discovery Project grant to analyse the powers and accountabilities of the executive branch of government. He recently completed a major project investigating the capacity of parliaments to protect human rights and the effectiveness of the Commonwealth model of human rights protection. He has also worked on the implementation of the Victorian Charter of Human Rights. Other interests include constitutional property rights, accountability of executive government and constitutional theory. He was Director of the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies from 2005 to 2007 and Director of Teaching in the Law School from 2004 to 2006. He was a national finalist in the Australian Awards for University Teaching in 2005 and a Universitas 21 Teaching Fellow in 2006-7. He is a member of the Executive of the Australian Association of Constitutional Law.
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- Constitutional law and theory, especially comparative constitutional law and constitutional interpretation
- Constitutional rights, especially constitutional property rights and free speech, and the boundaries between individual rights and legitimate regulation in a mixed liberal/social-democratic system
- Human rights, especially the role of legislatures in protecting human rights
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I am interested in supervising undergraduate (LLB Advanced Legal Research) and graduate (PhD, LLM by thesis) projects in any area of constitutional and administrative law. If you would like to discuss a possible research project, or if you would like some ideas about possible research projects, please contact me at any time.
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