Dr Murray Wesson completed his LLB at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. Thereafter he studied at the University of Oxford, where he completed a Bachelor of Civil Law and DPhil degrees. He has taught at the Universities of KwaZulu-Natal, Oxford and Leeds, and been a visiting lecturer at the Central European University in Budapest and the Law Institute in Jersey. His research interests are in the areas of constitutional and human rights law, which he is interested in exploring from an Australian and comparative perspective.
Experience
2014–present
Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Western Australia
2012–2013
Lecturer in Law, University of Western Sydney
2007–2012
Lecturer in Law, University of Leeds
Education
2007
University of Oxford, DPhil Law
2003
University of Oxford, MPhil Law
2002
University of Oxford, Bachelor of Civil Law
2000
University of KwaZulu-Natal, Bachelor of Laws
Publications
2016
Crafting a Concept of Deference for the Implied Freedom of Political Communication, Public Law Review
2015
Tajjour v New South Wales, Freedom of Association, and the High Court's Uneven Embrace of Proportionality Review, University of Western Australia Law Review
2014
The Emergence and Enforcement of Socio-Economic Rights, Reasoning Rights: Comparative Judicial Engagement
2014
Recession, Recovery and Service Delivery: Political and Judicial Responses to the Financial and Economic Crisis in South Africa, Economic and Social Rights After the Global Financial Crisis
2014
The Transformation of the Judiciary, Law, Nation-Building and Transformation: The South African Experience in Perspective
2012
Disagreement and the Constitutionalisation of Social Rights, Human Rights Law Review
2011
Reasonableness in Retreat? The Judgment of the South African Constitutional Court in Mazibuko v City of Johannesburg, Human Rights Law Review
2010
Contested Concepts: Equality and Dignity in the Case-Law of the Canadian Supreme Court and South African Constitutional Court, Constitutional Topography: Values and Constitutions
2009
Social, Economic and Cultural Rights, English Public Law
2008
Fifteen Years On: Central Issues Relating to the Transformation of the South African Judiciary, South African Journal on Human Rights
2007
Discrimination Law and Social Rights: Intersections and Possibilities, Juridica International
2007
Equality and Social Rights: An Exploration in Light of the South African Constitution, Public Law
2006
Social Condition and Social Rights, Saskatchewan Law Review
2006
Hart, Dworkin and the Nature of (South African) Legal Theory, South African Law Journal
2004
Chronic Illness and the Right of Access to Health Care Services, Constitutional Democracy in South Africa
2004
Grootboom and Beyond: Reassessing the Socio-Economic Jurisprudence of the South African Constitutional Court, South African Journal on Human Rights