Prof Denise Meyerson
Emeritus Prof Denise Meyerson
Senior Associate
Denise Meyerson is Emeritus Professor of Law at Macquarie University. At Macquarie University she served as Head of the Department of Law; Acting Associate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Arts; Co-Director of the Centre for Legal Governance; and Executive Board member of the Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Ethics and Values. Prior to joining Macquarie University, she held the WP Schreiner Chair of Jurisprudence at the University of Cape Town, where she also held the positions of Head, Department of Philosophy; Head, Department of Legal History and Method; Director, School for Advanced Legal Studies; and Chair, Senate Animal Ethics Committee.
Denise’s disciplinary background is in philosophy and law, and her research lies at the intersection of law and moral and political philosophy. She has published over 80 journal articles, book chapters, books and other outputs in the areas of jurisprudence, political and moral theory, human rights theory, and comparative human rights law. She is an elected fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.
Denise was appointed by the Australian Research Council to serve as a member for the Research Evaluation Committee for Humanities and Creative Arts for the 2015 ERA round and as a member of the College of Experts from 2016-2018.
Denise was lead CI on an ARC Discovery Project grant on procedural justice and CI on an ARC Linkage grant on innovation in surgery. She has held followships and residencies at All Souls College, Oxford; the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law at the British Institute for International and Comparative Law; the Brocher Foundation, Geneva; the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study; Trevelyan College, Durham University; and Valparaiso Law School, Indiana.
Denise has extensive experience in reviewing grant applications and journal articles, supervising and examining PhD theses, and editorial work. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney and was a member of the Advisory Committee for the Australian Law Reform Commission Inquiry into Traditional Rights and Freedoms.