Doctor Michael Head
Professor & Director of Research & HDR (Jan- July), School of Law
PhD UWS, LLM Columbia, LLB(Hons), BJuris Monash
Career Profile
After teaching law in the 1970s at Columbia, Adelaide and ANU, Professor Michael Head returned to university life at UWS in 1999. He teaches, researches and writes on civil liberties, democratic rights, refugee law, legal theory and public law.
Awards and Recognition
UWS College of Business and Law Research Excellence prize 2009
UWS Top Researcher by Publications 2004-06
Publications
Recent books:
Crimes Against the State, London, Ashgate, 2011
Transnational Governance: Contemporary Legal Perspectives, (co-editor) London, Ashgate 2011
Marxism, revolution and law: the lively debates of early Soviet Russia, Saarbrucken, VDM, 2010
Calling Out the Troops, The Australian Military and Civil Unrest, The Legal and Constitutional Issues, Sydney, The Federation Press, 2009
Domestic Deployment of the Armed Forces: military powers, law and human rights (with Scott Mann), London, Ashgate, 2009
Law in Perspective: Ethics, Society and Critical Thinking (with Scott Mann), Sydney, UNSW Press, Second edition 2009
Administrative Law: Context and Critique, Sydney. The Federation Press, Second edition 2008.
Evgeny Pashukanis: A Critical Re-Appraisal, London, Routledge-Cavendish, 2007
