Rosalind Dixon
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S.J.D. Candidate
Lexis-Nexis Fellow
Graduate Teaching Fellow, Harvard Law School - American Constitutional Law
| Status: | In Residence |
| Email: | rdixon@law.harvard.edu |
Dissertation
"Designing Constitutional Dialogue: Bills of Rights and the New Commonwealth Constitutionalism"
An examination of the normative underpinnings of dialogue theory, the various bill of rights mechanisms which may be used to create dialogue, and their relative effectiveness.
Fields of Research and Supervisors
- Constitutional Design, with Professor Frank Michelman, Harvard Law School, Overall Faculty Supervisor
- Comparative Constitutional Law, with Justice Richard Goldstone (Visiting Professor, Spring 2005)
- Asylum and Border Control, with Ms. Jacqueline Bhabha (Kennedy School)
Additional Research Interests
- Constitutional Law
- Law and Gender
- International Human Rights
- International Humanitarian Law
- Refugee, Asylum & Immigration Law
Education
- Harvard Law School, S.J.D. Candidate 2004-Present
- Harvard Law School, L.L.M. 2004
- University of New South Wales, Australia, B.A./LL.B 2001
Appointments and Fellowships
- Justice, Welfare & Economics Fellowship, Harvard University 2006-2007
- Frank Knox Fellowship, Harvard University 2003-2006
- Harvard College , Teaching Fellow 2004-2006
- History of the Warren Court
- History of the American Constitution
- Comparative Constitutional Engineering
- American Constitutional Law
- Harvard Law School , Teaching Assistant 2005-2006
- Constitutional Law
- Comparative Constitutional Law
- University of New South Wales Law School , Visiting Lecturer 2003-2005
- Comparative Constitutional Law
- Litigation I (Introductory Civil & Criminal Procedure)
Representative Publications
- "A Democratic Theory of Constitutional Comparison", 56 American Journal of Comparative Law (forthcoming, 2008)
- "Feminist Critique (Comparatively) Recast", 31 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender (forthcoming, 2008)
- “Creating Dialogue About Socio-economic Rights: Strong v. Weak-form Judicial Review Revisited” , 5 International Journal of Constitutional Law 391 (2007)
- “ Book Review: Tampering with Asylum by Frank Brennan ”, 7 Human Rights Review (2006)
- “ Review Essay: The Ethics and Politics of Asylum: Liberal Democracy and the Response to Refugees by Matthew J. Gibney” , 11 Australian Journal of Human Rights (2005)
- “Overriding Guarantee of Just Terms or Supplementary Source of Power?: Rethinking s. 51(xxxi) of the Constitution”, 26 Sydney Law Review 639 (2005)
- “ Rape as a Crime in International Humanitarian Law: Where to From Here? ”, 13 European Journal of International Law 697 (2002)
- “ Constitutional Transitions: Lessons for East Timor from Namibia , Cambodia and South Africa ”, 3 Constitutional Law and Policy Review 50 (2002)