Professor Anne Twomey
BA LLB (Hons) (Melbourne) LLM (ANU) PhD (UNSW)
Professor of Constitutional Law
Director, Constitutional Reform Unit
F10 - Law School (Camperdown)
The University of Sydney
Telephone | +61 2 9351 0237 |
Fax | +61 2 9351 0200 |
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Website |
Papers on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) Constitutional Reform Unit Blog |
Biographical details
Anne Twomey has practised as a solicitor and is admitted to practice in New South Wales, Victoria, the ACT, and the High Court (but does not hold a current practising certificate). She has worked for the High Court of Australia as a Senior Research Officer, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Research Service as a researcher in the Law and Government Group, the Commonwealth Senate as Secretary to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee, and The Cabinet Office of NSW as Policy Manager of the Legal Branch. She has acted as a consultant to various government bodies.
Research interests
- Constitutional law
- Constitutional history
- Electoral law
- Federalism
- Parliamentary procedure and practice
- Executive power
- Monarchy, Crown, republic and decolonisation
Teaching and supervision
- Federal Constitutional Law
- Public Law
- The Constitution and the Crown
- The High Court of Australia
Current research students
Project title | Research student |
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Judicial Review of Non-Statutory Executive Action in Australia | Amanda SAPIENZA |
Associations
- Member, Australian Study of Parliament Group
- Member, Australian Association of Constitutional Law
- Admitted to practice in NSW, Victoria, ACT and High Court of Australia
Selected grants
2015
- Australasian legal history library: stage II; Twomey A; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF).
2013
- The Australasian Legal Scholarship Library: New content and sophistication for a world-leading legal scholarship repository and citator; Greenleaf G, Twomey A; University of New South Wales/Shared Research Support.
2012
- The Australasian Legal History Library: Creating historical depth in legal data on AustLII, to improve all legal research; Mowbray A, Twomey A, Irving H; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF).
2011
- A comparative study of the prerogative and reserve powers in Commonwealth nations; Twomey A; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
Selected publications & creative works
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The Veiled Sceptre - Reserve Powers of Heads of State in Westminster Systems (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
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The Australia Acts 1986: Australias Statutes of Independence (The Federation Press, 2010)
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The Chameleon Crown - The Queen and her Australian Governors (Federation Press, 2006)
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The Constitution Of New South Wales (Federation Press, 2004)
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