Associate Professor Glenn Patmore is an academic at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. His research centres on the legal regulation of democratic participation, with particular reference to international law, transnational law, constitutional amendment, constitutional freedoms, freedom from discrimination, and workplace participation. Patmore has produced a substantial body of published work, including two monographs, six books of collected essays, numerous book chapters in prestigious handbooks from Oxford University Press and Edward Elgar, and scholarly articles in journals such as the Melbourne University Law Review, Federal Law Review, Public Law Review, Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, and Queen’s Law Journal. He is the editor of the Research Handbook on Law and Democracy (Edward Elgar, forthcoming). Selected recent publications include ‘Employee Voice and Democracy: A Critique of National and Transnational Laws’ in the Handbook of Research on Employee Voice (Edward Elgar, 2nd ed, 2020) and ‘Developing a Right to Democracy in International Law: Protection by the Rule of Law?’ in Democracy and Rule of Law in China’s Shadow (Hart Publishing, 2021).

Glenn Patmore studied law at Monash University and Queen's University, Canada, and prior to Melbourne Law School served as a member of the Faculty of Law at Monash University. He teaches Legal Method and Reasoning, Principles of Public Law, Constitutional Law, and Torts, along with the Juris Doctor elective Democracy, Law and Civil Liberties, which examines case law from Australia and the United States. Patmore has presented his research at leading institutions worldwide, including the University of Cambridge, London School of Economics and Political Science, King’s College London, Queen’s University Canada, and Paris-Sorbonne University. He has also given invited presentations to the Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales. In 2020, he joined the Inaugural Advisory Council of the International Society of Public Law (ICON•S) Australia and New Zealand Chapter. Within Melbourne Law School, he helped establish the Equality Committee and was the inaugural Equal Opportunity Liaison Officer for Disability, and co-organised the Faculty Research Seminar Series from 2015 to 2017. He is a member of the Australian Labour Law Association, Australian Association of Constitutional Law, and Australian Republican Movement, and is affiliated with the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies at Melbourne Law School.

Professional Email: g.patmore@unimelb.edu.au