Dr Kristen Rundle is Professor of Law at Melbourne Law School, where she teaches and researches in the areas of administrative law and legal theory, and was the Co-Director of the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies from 2017-2020. Kristen’s research is located at the intersection of legal theory and public law in its effort to trace the conditions necessary for law to operate as a limitation on power, and her current work is interested especially in how administrative power is designed and exercised in conditions of contemporary neoliberal government.
Most recently Kristen is the author of Revisiting the Rule of Law (Cambridge University Press, 2022), a text designed to assist students of legal and political thought to navigate the unruly landscape of theoretical writing on the rule of law. She is also the co-author of the third (2018) and fourth (2023) editions of the Australian administrative law textbook and casebook, Principles of Administrative Law, and Cases for Principles of Administrative Law (Oxford University Press). Her earlier book, Forms Liberate: Reclaiming the Jurisprudence of Lon L Fuller (Hart Publishing, 2012) was awarded the University of Melbourne Woodward Medal in the Humanities and Social Sciences (2017), and second prize, UK Society of Legal Scholars Peter Birks Book Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship (2012).
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