Associate ProfessorGeorge Duke

George's expertise spans constitutional theory, jurisprudence, and the history of political and legal thought, with a disciplinary reach extending from law into political theory, political science, and intellectual history. His work has appeared in leading international journals, including Modern Law Review, German Law Journal, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Global Constitutionalism, Legal Theory, International Journal of Constitutional Law, Law and Philosophy, European Law Review, American Journal of Jurisprudence, European Journal of Political Theory, Political Studies, and History of Political Thought. His 2017 article in the Federal Law Review received the Zines Prize in 2018, and his Oxford Journal of Legal Studies article on constituent power received a dedicated review in Jotwell.

George is the author of Aristotle and Law: The Politics of Nomos (Cambridge University Press, 2019), recently translated into Spanish and reviewed in Ethics and the Journal of the History of Philosophy, and co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Jurisprudence (Cambridge University Press, 2017). His latest monograph, Constituent Power and Constitutional Legitimation, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press in late 2026. He has contributed invited chapters to Oxford Handbooks on constituent power and ancient political and legal thought.

George is Co-Investigator on the ARC Discovery Project Constituent Power in Federal Constitutions (DP220100967), working with Nicholas Aroney (University of Queensland) and Stephen Tierney (University of Edinburgh). He serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of Jurisprudence, and is a member of the ReConNet Research Network in Constitutional Theory, based in Maastricht.

For the 2026-2027 academic year, George has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He was an invited panellist at the ICON·S 2025 assembly in Madrid and has delivered invited contributions to international symposia on constituent power at the University of Hamburg and the University of Cambridge.

George supervises doctoral students in constitutional theory, legal philosophy, and the history of ideas, with four PhD completions and seven candidates currently under supervision. He is Course Director of the LLB Honours program at Deakin Law School.

George completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2011 and his JD at Melbourne Law School in 2018.