Director, Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies
Adrienne Stone researches in the areas of constitutional law and constitutional theory. She has published extensively on freedom of expression, the legal and institutional questions surrounding bills of rights and on judicial method in constitutional cases. Her recent publications include Hate Speech and Freedom of Speech in Australia (co-edited with Dr Katharine Gelber, Federation Press, 2007) and 'Judicial Review without Rights' (2008) 28 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 1. She currently holds an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant for a four year project entitled "Freedom of Expression in Democratic States".
She has held a Chair at Melbourne Law School since 2007. Her past positions include a Fellowship at the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, Associate-in-Law at Columbia Law School, a solicitor at Malleson Stephen Jaques in Sydney and Associate to the Hon. Justice M.H. McHugh of the High Court of Australia. She has taught at law schools in Australia, the United States and Canada and presented papers by invitation universities in Australia, North America and Europe including Kings College London, the University of Texas Law School, American University, Brandeis Law School and New York Law School.
She is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Constitutional Law, the Council of the Australian Association of Constitutional Law and is a Vice President of the Australian Society of Legal Philosophy.
