James Allan

Professor James Allan holds the oldest named chair at the University of Queensland where he is the Garrick Professor of Law.  A native born Canadian, he practised law in Toronto and then in London before teaching law in Hong Kong, New Zealand and Australia.  
He has had sabbaticals at the Cornell Law School and the University of San Diego School of Law in the US and at Osgoode Hall Law School and the Dalhousie Law School in Canada (where he was the Bertha Wilson Visiting Professor of Human Rights), and at King’s College Law School in London. 
Allan has published widely in the areas of constitutional law, legal philosophy and bill of rights scepticism.  His latest book is The Age of Foolishness: A Doubter’s Guide to Constitutionalism in a Modern Democracy (Academica Press, 2022).  
Allan also writes regularly for weeklies and monthlies including being a regular contributor to The Spectator Australia, The Daily Sceptic and Quadrant and a sometime contributor to The Australian, Law & Liberty and The Conservative Woman.