DrJoel Harrison

BA LLB (Hons) (Auckland) MSt DPhil (Oxford)

Dr Joel Harrison specialises in constitutional law and public law. His research focuses on constitutionalism, religious liberty, and human rights norms, with a particular emphasis on the relationship of these to theological ideas, questions, and history. He is the author of Post-Liberal Religious Liberty: Forming Communities of Charity (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Joel's previous positions include Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University, Associate-in-Law at Columbia University, New York, and Tutor in Constitutional Law at the University of Oxford. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Programme for the Foundations of Law and Constitutional Government, Oxford, in 2018.

After graduating from the University of Auckland, he was judicial clerk to Sir Grant Hammond at the Court of Appeal of New Zealand. He completed his masters and doctorate at Oxford as a Woolf Fisher Scholar.