Theunis Roux is a Professor and the Head of School of the School of Global and Public Law at the UNSW Faculty of Law & Justice, and an Affiliate of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law’s Comparative Constitutional Law Project. Before relocating to Australia in January 2009, he was (for four years) the founding director of the South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law (SAIFAC), an independent research centre based on Constitution Hill, Johannesburg. His main research interest is in comparative constitutional law, focusing on the politics of judicial review in new democracies.  His latest book is The Politico-Legal Dynamics of Judicial Review: A Comparative Analysis (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Posts by Theunis

• What does the US Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs tell us about the virtues of Australia’s approach to protecting fundamental rights?

• The Global South and liberal constitutionalism: incommensurable opposites?