Nicholas Aroney

Professor of Constitutional Law, The University of Queensland, Australia

Nicholas Aroney is a professor of constitutional law at the University of Queensland, a senior fellow of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University, and a fellow of both the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of Law. He has held visiting positions at Oxford, Cambridge, Paris II, Edinburgh, Durham, Sydney, Emory, Padua, and Tilburg universities. He has published more than 150 journal articles, book chapters, and books in the fields of constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, and law and religion. He has led several international research projects in comparative federalism, bicameralism, legal pluralism, and religious freedom. In 2017 he was appointed by the Australian prime minister to an expert panel to advise on whether Australian law adequately protects the human right to freedom of religion.