Margaret Kelly (Michaelmas Term 2008)

Margaret is a senior lecturer in Macquarie School of Law at Macquarie University Sydney, where she teaches constitutional law, administrative law, and electives in advanced administrative law examining evolution of principles in the migration jurisdiction, and politics and the Constitution. She holds degrees in English Literature (BA Hons. QU); Law (LLB, ANU); and a Doctorate in constitutional law and constitutional history (MqU). For many years Margaret was a Commonwealth of Australia public servant, mainly in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. She has two books on administrative law forthcoming. However her main area of research is in constitutional history and the relationship between people and the law, between the head of state and the law, and among these three protagonists. Her most recent work has centred on ‘common law constitutionalism’ and the Oath of Governance. While at the Centre, she participated in the Workshop on Constitutions and the Classics, presenting a paper on Sir John Fortescue; in the Wolfson College Colloquium The World Turned Almost Upside Down with a paper on John Milton; and gave a presentation on ‘common law constitutionalism;’ as well as holding two seminars on the common law of the monarchy and its application to governance change.