Shaun McVeigh

Professor Shaun McVeigh is a Professor at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. He joined the Melbourne Law School in 2007 after researching and teaching at Griffith University in Queensland, as well as Keele University and Middlesex University in the United Kingdom. McVeigh holds a PhD from the University of Technology Sydney, a Graduate Certificate from the University of Melbourne, and a Bachelors Degree with Honours. He currently serves as Director of Graduate Research and Director of Teaching in the Office of Teaching and Learning at Melbourne Law School. With a long-standing association with critical legal studies in Australia and the United Kingdom, he has convened the symposium 'Of the South' to develop accounts of lawful existence within the South.

McVeigh's research specializations include jurisprudence, health care, and legal ethics. His ongoing projects center on refreshing a jurisprudence of jurisdiction; developing accounts of a 'lawful' South; the role of civil prudence in the conduct of law and lawyers; and reckoning with the colonial legal inheritance of Australia and Britain. Key publications encompass the co-authored book Jurisdiction (2012, with Shaunnagh Dorsett); 'Jurisprudences of Jurisdiction: Matters of Public Authority' (2014); 'Conduct of Laws: Native Title, Responsibility, and Some Limits of Jurisdictional Thinking' (2013); 'Nineteen Eighty Three: A Jurisographic Report on Commonwealth v Tasmania' (2015); 'The Legacy of Robert Cover' (2012); and 'The Persona of the Jurist in Salmond's Jurisprudence: On the Exposition of "What Law is..."' (2007). His scholarship, with over 200 citations, contributes to jurisdictional thinking, legal theory, and postcolonial legal studies. McVeigh's work influences discussions on public authority, native title, and the relations of legal thought.

Professional Email: smcveigh@unimelb.edu.au