Doctor Michael Head

Doctor Michael Head

DIRECTOR - RHD,
Dean's Unit - School of Law

PROFESSOR,
School of Law

Personal

Qualifications

  • LLM Columbia University (NY)
  • BJuris Monash University
  • LLB Monash University
  • PhD University of Western Sydney

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • Dean's Unit - School of Law
  • School of Law

Contact

Email:M.Head@uws.edu.au
Extension:9546
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Location:EK.G.37
Parramatta
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Publications

Books

  • Head, M., Mann, S. and Kozlina, S. (2012), 'Transnational Governance: Emerging Models of Global Legal Regulation', : Ashgate 9781409418269.
  • Head, M. (2011), 'Crimes Against the State: From Treason to Terrorism', : Ashgate 9780754678199.
  • Head, M. (2010), 'Marxism, Revolution and Law', : VDM 9783639229998.
  • Head, M. and Mann, S. (2009), 'Law in Perspective: Ethics, Society and Critical Thinking Second Edition', : UNSW Press 9781921410802.
  • Head, M. (2009), 'Calling Out the Troops: The Australian Military and Civil Unrest: The legal and constitutional issues', : The Federation Press 9781862877092.
  • Head, M. and Mann, S. (2009), 'Domestic Deployment of the Armed Forces', : Ashgate 9780754673460.
  • Head, M. (2008), 'Administrative Law: Context and Critique', : Federation Press 9781862876903.
  • Head, M. (2007), 'Evgeny Pashukanis : A Critical Reappraisal', : Routledge 1904385761.
  • Head, M. (2005), 'Administrative Law: Context and Critique', : The Federation Press 1862875103.
  • Mann, S. and Head, M. (2005), 'Law In Perspective', : UNSW Press 0868408344.

Chapters in Books

  • Head, M. (2012), 'Global Governance Imp.lications of Terrorism: Using UN Resolutuions to Justify Abuse of Basic Rights', Transnational Governance: Emerging Models of Global Legal Regulation, Ashgate 9781409418269.
  • Head, M. (2012), 'The military call-out legislation', Emergency Law, Ashgate 9781409443537.
  • Head, M. (2012), 'Global governance implications of terrorism : using UN resolutions to justify abuse of basic rights', Transnational Governance: Emerging Models of Global Legal Regulation, Ashgate 9781409418269.
  • Head, M., Mann, S. and Kozlina, S. (2012), 'Introduction : the significance and problems of transnational governance', Transnational Governance: Emerging Models of Global Legal Regulation, Ashgate 9781409418269.
  • Head, M. (2006), 'Refugee Rights Overboard: The Tampa Case and the Need for a New Global Perspective', Fenced Out Fenced In: Border Protection, Asylum and Detention in Australia, Common Ground Publishing 1863355995.
  • Head, M. (2004), 'The Global 'War on Terrorism': Democratic Rights Under Attack', Global Governance and the Quest for Justice, Hart Publishing 1841134090.

Journal Articles

  • Head, M. (2010), 'Calling out the Troops and the Civil Contingencies Act: some Questions of Concern', Public Law, 22.
  • Head, M. (2009), 'What the Haneef inquiry revealed (and did not)', Alternative Law Journal, 5.
  • Head, M. (2009), 'The Haneef Inquiry: Some Unanswered Questions', Journal of the Australasian Law Teachers Association, 14.
  • Head, M. (2008), 'Lessons for the 'war on terror'? 30 years since Sydney's Hilton Hotel bombing', Alternative Law Journal, 2.
  • Head, M. (2008), 'Thirty Years since Sydney's Hilton Hotel Bombing: Unanswered Questions', Legal History, 18.
  • Head, M. (2007), 'Australia's Last Sedition Trial: the case of Brian Cooper & Implications for the 'war on terror'', Overland, 6.
  • Head, M. (2007), 'Militarisation by Stealth : Should Domestic Security be a "Core Business" of the Armed Forces', Overland, 6.
  • Head, M. (2007), 'The political uses and abuses of sedition : the trial of Brian Cooper', Legal History, 16.
  • Head, M. (2007), 'Deep Learning and "Topical Topics" in Teaching Administrative Law', Legal Education Review, 10.
  • Head, M. (2006), 'A disturbing convergence? Civil liberties and the 'war on terror'', Asia Pacific Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, 30.
  • Head, M. (2006), 'Democratic rights on the chopping block - Australia's new electoral laws and the High Court', Overland, 6.
  • Head, M. (2006), 'Military call-out powers expanded substantially - some disturbing questions', Alternative Law Journal, 5.
  • Head, M. (2006), 'Australia's Expanded Military Call-Out Powers: Causes for Concern', University of New England Law Review, 26.
  • Head, M. (2005), 'The Military Call-out Legislation Five Years On -- Disturbing Trends and Unanswered Questions', University of New South Wales Law Journal, 28.
  • Head, M. (2005), 'Detention Without Trial -- Is There No Limit', Alternative Law Journal, 34.
  • Head, M. (2005), 'Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four 20 Years On: "The war on terrorism" "doublethink" and "Big Brother"', Alternative Law Journal, 7.
  • Head, M. (2005), 'Detention Without Trial -- A Serious Threat to Democratic Rights', University of Western Sydney Law Review, 19.
  • Head, M. (2004), 'ASIO, Secrecy and Lack of Accountability', Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law, .
  • Head, M. (2004), 'The Rise and Fall of a Soviet Jurist: Evgeny Pashukanis and Stalinism', Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, 26.
  • Head, M. (2004), 'Another threat to democratic rights: ASIO detentions cloaked in secrecy', Alternative Law Journal, 4.
  • Head, M. (2004), 'Guantanamo Bay and retrospective criminal laws: digging a deeper 'legal black hole'', Alternative Law Journal, 5.
  • Head, M. (2003), 'The Jailing of Pauline Hanson - A Victory for Democracy', Alternative Law Journal, 5.
  • Head, M. (2002), 'Refugees, Global Inequality and the Need for a New Concept of Global Citizenship', Australian International Law Journal, 23.
  • Head, M. (2002), 'Counter-terrorism laws: a threat to political freedom, civil liberties and constitutional rights', Melbourne University Law Review, 24.
  • Head, M. (2002), 'Counter-terrorism laws threaten fundamental rights', Alternative Law Journal, 6.
  • Head, M. (2002), 'The High Court and the Tampa Refugees', Griffith Law Review, 11.
  • Head, M. (2002), 'Whither the Refugee Convention? A new perspective for the 21st Century', Mots Pluriels, .
  • Head, M. (2001), 'A victory for democracy? An alternative assessment of Republic of Fiji v Prasad', Melbourne Journal of International Law, 15.
  • Head, M. (2001), 'The military call-out legislation -- some legal and Constitutional questions', Federal Law Review, 22.
  • Head, M. (2001), 'The Passionate Legal Debates of the early Russian Revolution', Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, 25.

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