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Professor Lisa Burton Crawford

Professor of Public and Constitutional Law

Email

l.crawford@sydney.edu.au

Address

F10 - Law School (Camperdown)

The University of Sydney

Resume

Curriculum vitae

Biographical details

I am a Professor of Public and Constitutional Law at the University of Sydney Law School. I have expertise in constitutional law, administrative law, and statutory interpretation and my research typically focuses on the intersection between these areas of doctrine.

Research interests

Constitutional law
Administrative law
Statutory interpretation
Legal Theory
Rules as code

Teaching and supervision

Constitutional Law
Public Law

I am interested in supervising PhD candidates in public law, with a particular interest in statutory and constitutional interpretation.

Awards and honours

Appointed Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, 2024
Shortlisted for the 2020 Australian Law Research Awards (Best Article/Book Chapter - ECR)
2016 Zines Prize for Excellence in Legal Research
2015 Mollie Holman Medal for Best Doctoral Thesis in the Faculty of Law, Monash University

Selected publications

Public Law and Statutory Interpretation: Principles and Practice

(The Federation Press, 2017)

The Rule of Law and the Australian Constitution

(The Federation Press, 2017)

Publications

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Books

Crawford, L., Boughey, J., Castan, M., O'Sullivan, M. (2017). Public Law and Statutory Interpretation: Principles and Practice. Sydney, Australia: The Federation Press.
Crawford, L. (2017). The Rule of Law and the Australian Constitution. Sydney, Australia: The Federation Press. [More Information]

Edited Books

Boughey, J., Crawford, L. (2020). Interpreting Executive Power. Sydney, Australia: The Federation Press.
Crawford, L., Emerton, P., Smith, D. (2019). Law Under a Democratic Constitution: Essays in Honour of Jeffrey Goldsworthy. Oxford: Hart Publishing. [More Information]

Book Chapters

Crawford, L. (2022). The Rule of Law and Human Rights in Australia. In Paula Gerber and Melissa Castan (Eds.), Critical Perspectives on Human Rights Law in Australia - Volume 2, (pp. 63-80). Pyrmont, NSW: Thomson Reuters.
Boughey, J., Crawford, L. (2021). Executive Power in an Age of Statutes. In Janina Boughey and Lisa Burton Crawford (Eds.), Interpreting Executive Power, (pp. 1-6). Sydney, Australia: The Federation Press.
Moses, L., Boughey, J., Crawford, L. (2021). Laws for Machines and Machine-made Laws. In Janina Boughey and Katie Miller (Eds.), The Automated State: Implications, Challenges and Opportunities for Public Law, (pp. 232-253). Sydney, Australia: The Federation Press.
Crawford, L. (2020). Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Executive Guidance in the Administrative State. In Janina Boughey and Lisa Burton Crawford (Eds.), Interpreting Executive Power, (pp. 7-23). Sydney, Australia: The Federation Press.
Emerton, P., Crawford, L. (2019). Statutory Meaning Without Parliamentary Intention: Defending the High Court's 'Alternative Approach' to Statutory Interpretation. In Lisa Burton Crawford, Patrick Emerton and Dale Smith (Eds.), Law Under a Democratic Constitution: Essays in Honour of Jeffrey Goldsworthy, (pp. 39-64). Oxford: Hart Publishing. [More Information]
Crawford, L. (2019). The Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Act 2011 (Cth): A Failed Human Rights Experiment? In Matthew Groves, Janina Boughey, Dan Meagher (Eds.), The Legal Protection of Rights in Australia, (pp. 143-162). Oxford: Hart Publishing. [More Information]
Crawford, L., Goldsworthy, J. (2018). Constitutionalism. In Cheryl Saunders, Adrienne Stone (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Australian Constitution, (pp. 357-378). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Boughey, J., Crawford, L. (2018). Jurisdictional Error: Do We Really Need It? In Mark Elliott, Jason Ne Varuhas and Shona Wilson Stark (Eds.), The Unity of Public Law?: Doctrinal, Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives, (pp. 395-420). Oxford: Hart Publishing. [More Information]
Crawford, L. (2018). The Rule of Law. In Rosalind Dixon (Eds.), Australian Constitutional Values, (pp. 77-98). Oxford: Hart Publishing.
Crawford, L., Emerton, P., Laryea, E. (2017). Investor-State Dispute Settlement and the Australian Constitutional Framework. In Colin Picker, Heng Wang, Weihuan Zhou (Eds.), The China-Australia Free Trade Agreement: A 21st-Century Model, (pp. 259-280). Oxford: Hart Publishing.
Williams, G., Burton, L. (2015). Australia's Parliamentary Scrutiny Act: An Exclusive Parliamentary Model of Rights Protection. In Murray Hunt, Hayley J Hooper, and Paul Yowell (Eds.), Parliaments and Human Rights Redressing the Democratic Deficit, (pp. 257-278). Oxford: Hart Publishing. [More Information]

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Journals

Crawford, L. (2024). The problem of complex legislation. Legal Theory. [More Information]
Crawford, L. (2023). Rules as code and the rule of law. Public Law, 2023 (Jul), 402-423.
Crawford, L. (2023). The Institutional Justification for the Principle of Legality, Revisited. Melbourne University Law Review, 46(3), 859-873.
Crawford, L. (2022). An Institutional Justification for the Principle of Legality. Melbourne University Law Review, 45(2), 511-548.
Crawford, L. (2022). The Communist Party Case Revisited: Constitutional Review in the 2020 Term. Federal Law Review, 50(1), 20-39. [More Information]
Crawford, L. (2021). Materiality and the Interpretation of Executive Power. Australian Journal of Administrative Law, 28(3), 166-176.
Crawford, L., Crawford, M. (2021). Private Rights, Public Wrongs and the Limits of Property. The Law Quarterly Review, 137(Jan), 39-45.
Crawford, L. (2020). Immaterial Errors, Jurisdictional Errors and the Presumptive Limits of Executive Power. Public Law Review, 30(4), 281-299.
Crawford, L., Meagher, D. (2020). Statutory Precedents under the "Modern Approach" to Statutory Interpretation. Sydney Law Review, 42(2), 209-239.
Crawford, L. (2020). The Rule of Law in the Age of Statutes. Federal Law Review, 48.0 (2), 159-185. [More Information]
Boughey, J., Crawford, L. (2019). Situating Statutory Interpretation in its Public Law Context. Legal Education Review, 29(1), 57-70. [More Information]
Crawford, L., Boughey, J. (2019). The Centrality of Jurisdictional Error: Rationale and Consequences. Public Law Review, 30(1), 18-35.
Crawford, L. (2017). Expanding the Entrenched Minimum Provision of Judicial Review? Graham v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Public Law Review, 28(4), 282-288.
Boughey, J., Crawford, L. (2017). Reconsidering R. (on the Application of Cart) v Upper Tribunal and the Rationale for Jurisdictional Error. Public Law, October(4), 592-608.
Crawford, L. (2017). The Entrenched Minimum Provision of Judicial Review and the Limits of 'Law'. Federal Law Review, 45(4), 569-596. [More Information]
Crawford, L. (2017). Who Decides the Validity of Executive Action? No-Invalidity Clauses and the Separation of Powers. Australian Journal of Administrative Law, 24(2), 81-98.
Crawford, L. (2016). Can Parliament Confer Plenary Executive Power? The Limitations Imposed by Sections 51 and 52 of the Australian Consitution. Federal Law Review, 44(2), 287-310. [More Information]
Emerton, P., Crawford, L. (2016). Parliament, the People and Interpreting the Law: Miller v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. University of Queensland Law Journal, 35(2), 331-342.
Crawford, L. (2014). Why These Three?: The Significance of the Selection of Remedies in Section 75(v) of the Australian Constitution. Federal Law Review, 42(2), 253-277. [More Information]
Williams, G., Burton, L. (2013). Australia's Exclusive Parliamentary Model of Rights Protection. Statute Law Review, 34(1), 58-94. [More Information]
Burton, L., Williams, G. (2013). What Future for Australia's Control Order Regime. Public Law Review, 24(3), 182-208.
Crawford, L., McGarrity, N., Williams, G. (2012). The extraordinary questioning and detention powers of the Australian security intelligence organisation. Melbourne University Law Review, 36.0 (2), 415-469.
Burton, L., Williams, G. (2012). The Integrity Function and ASIO's Extraordinary Questioning and Detention Powers. Monash University Law Review, 38(3), 1-34.
Burton, L. (2009). MZXOT v Minister for Immigration & Citizenship: Last Stop on Route 75(v)? Australian Journal of Administrative Law, 16(2), 115-121.

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By Year

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2024

Crawford, L. (2024). The problem of complex legislation. Legal Theory. [More Information]

2023

Crawford, L. (2023). Rules as code and the rule of law. Public Law, 2023 (Jul), 402-423.
Crawford, L. (2023). The Institutional Justification for the Principle of Legality, Revisited. Melbourne University Law Review, 46(3), 859-873.

2022

Crawford, L. (2022). An Institutional Justification for the Principle of Legality. Melbourne University Law Review, 45(2), 511-548.
Crawford, L. (2022). The Communist Party Case Revisited: Constitutional Review in the 2020 Term. Federal Law Review, 50(1), 20-39. [More Information]
Crawford, L. (2022). The Rule of Law and Human Rights in Australia. In Paula Gerber and Melissa Castan (Eds.), Critical Perspectives on Human Rights Law in Australia - Volume 2, (pp. 63-80). Pyrmont, NSW: Thomson Reuters.

2021

Boughey, J., Crawford, L. (2021). Executive Power in an Age of Statutes. In Janina Boughey and Lisa Burton Crawford (Eds.), Interpreting Executive Power, (pp. 1-6). Sydney, Australia: The Federation Press.
Moses, L., Boughey, J., Crawford, L. (2021). Laws for Machines and Machine-made Laws. In Janina Boughey and Katie Miller (Eds.), The Automated State: Implications, Challenges and Opportunities for Public Law, (pp. 232-253). Sydney, Australia: The Federation Press.
Crawford, L. (2021). Materiality and the Interpretation of Executive Power. Australian Journal of Administrative Law, 28(3), 166-176.
Crawford, L., Crawford, M. (2021). Private Rights, Public Wrongs and the Limits of Property. The Law Quarterly Review, 137(Jan), 39-45.

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2020

Crawford, L. (2020). Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Executive Guidance in the Administrative State. In Janina Boughey and Lisa Burton Crawford (Eds.), Interpreting Executive Power, (pp. 7-23). Sydney, Australia: The Federation Press.
Crawford, L. (2020). Immaterial Errors, Jurisdictional Errors and the Presumptive Limits of Executive Power. Public Law Review, 30(4), 281-299.
Boughey, J., Crawford, L. (2020). Interpreting Executive Power. Sydney, Australia: The Federation Press.
Crawford, L., Meagher, D. (2020). Statutory Precedents under the "Modern Approach" to Statutory Interpretation. Sydney Law Review, 42(2), 209-239.
Crawford, L. (2020). The Rule of Law in the Age of Statutes. Federal Law Review, 48.0 (2), 159-185. [More Information]

show 2 more

2019

Crawford, L., Emerton, P., Smith, D. (2019). Law Under a Democratic Constitution: Essays in Honour of Jeffrey Goldsworthy. Oxford: Hart Publishing. [More Information]
Boughey, J., Crawford, L. (2019). Situating Statutory Interpretation in its Public Law Context. Legal Education Review, 29(1), 57-70. [More Information]
Emerton, P., Crawford, L. (2019). Statutory Meaning Without Parliamentary Intention: Defending the High Court's 'Alternative Approach' to Statutory Interpretation. In Lisa Burton Crawford, Patrick Emerton and Dale Smith (Eds.), Law Under a Democratic Constitution: Essays in Honour of Jeffrey Goldsworthy, (pp. 39-64). Oxford: Hart Publishing. [More Information]
Crawford, L., Boughey, J. (2019). The Centrality of Jurisdictional Error: Rationale and Consequences. Public Law Review, 30(1), 18-35.
Crawford, L. (2019). The Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Act 2011 (Cth): A Failed Human Rights Experiment? In Matthew Groves, Janina Boughey, Dan Meagher (Eds.), The Legal Protection of Rights in Australia, (pp. 143-162). Oxford: Hart Publishing. [More Information]

show 2 more

2018

Crawford, L., Goldsworthy, J. (2018). Constitutionalism. In Cheryl Saunders, Adrienne Stone (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Australian Constitution, (pp. 357-378). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Boughey, J., Crawford, L. (2018). Jurisdictional Error: Do We Really Need It? In Mark Elliott, Jason Ne Varuhas and Shona Wilson Stark (Eds.), The Unity of Public Law?: Doctrinal, Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives, (pp. 395-420). Oxford: Hart Publishing. [More Information]
Crawford, L. (2018). The Rule of Law. In Rosalind Dixon (Eds.), Australian Constitutional Values, (pp. 77-98). Oxford: Hart Publishing.

2017

Crawford, L. (2017). Expanding the Entrenched Minimum Provision of Judicial Review? Graham v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Public Law Review, 28(4), 282-288.
Crawford, L., Emerton, P., Laryea, E. (2017). Investor-State Dispute Settlement and the Australian Constitutional Framework. In Colin Picker, Heng Wang, Weihuan Zhou (Eds.), The China-Australia Free Trade Agreement: A 21st-Century Model, (pp. 259-280). Oxford: Hart Publishing.
Crawford, L., Boughey, J., Castan, M., O'Sullivan, M. (2017). Public Law and Statutory Interpretation: Principles and Practice. Sydney, Australia: The Federation Press.
Boughey, J., Crawford, L. (2017). Reconsidering R. (on the Application of Cart) v Upper Tribunal and the Rationale for Jurisdictional Error. Public Law, October(4), 592-608.
Crawford, L. (2017). The Entrenched Minimum Provision of Judicial Review and the Limits of 'Law'. Federal Law Review, 45(4), 569-596. [More Information]
Crawford, L. (2017). The Rule of Law and the Australian Constitution. Sydney, Australia: The Federation Press. [More Information]
Crawford, L. (2017). Who Decides the Validity of Executive Action? No-Invalidity Clauses and the Separation of Powers. Australian Journal of Administrative Law, 24(2), 81-98.

show 4 more

2016

Crawford, L. (2016). Can Parliament Confer Plenary Executive Power? The Limitations Imposed by Sections 51 and 52 of the Australian Consitution. Federal Law Review, 44(2), 287-310. [More Information]
Emerton, P., Crawford, L. (2016). Parliament, the People and Interpreting the Law: Miller v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. University of Queensland Law Journal, 35(2), 331-342.

2015

Williams, G., Burton, L. (2015). Australia's Parliamentary Scrutiny Act: An Exclusive Parliamentary Model of Rights Protection. In Murray Hunt, Hayley J Hooper, and Paul Yowell (Eds.), Parliaments and Human Rights Redressing the Democratic Deficit, (pp. 257-278). Oxford: Hart Publishing. [More Information]

2014

Crawford, L. (2014). Why These Three?: The Significance of the Selection of Remedies in Section 75(v) of the Australian Constitution. Federal Law Review, 42(2), 253-277. [More Information]

2013

Williams, G., Burton, L. (2013). Australia's Exclusive Parliamentary Model of Rights Protection. Statute Law Review, 34(1), 58-94. [More Information]
Burton, L., Williams, G. (2013). What Future for Australia's Control Order Regime. Public Law Review, 24(3), 182-208.

2012

Crawford, L., McGarrity, N., Williams, G. (2012). The extraordinary questioning and detention powers of the Australian security intelligence organisation. Melbourne University Law Review, 36.0 (2), 415-469.
Burton, L., Williams, G. (2012). The Integrity Function and ASIO's Extraordinary Questioning and Detention Powers. Monash University Law Review, 38(3), 1-34.

2009

Burton, L. (2009). MZXOT v Minister for Immigration & Citizenship: Last Stop on Route 75(v)? Australian Journal of Administrative Law, 16(2), 115-121.

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