AsPr Heather Roberts

Copies of selected publications can be found at my ANU College of Law webpage:

http://law.anu.edu.au/staff/heather-roberts

PhD (ANU), LLB(Hons)/BA(Asian Studies)(Hons)

Heather Roberts teaches constitutional law, property law and equity and trusts. Her research examines Australian constitutional law and history, with a biographical focus. Her PhD thesis examined the constitutional jurisprudence of Justice Deane. In 2017 she was awarded an early career fellowship by the Australian Research Council, titled 'The Ideal Judge'. Her project explores expectations of judges and judging in Australian Supreme Courts. Using the prism of judicial swearing-in ceremonies, the project will consider differing historical, regional, and gender-based expectations of judges, and how those expectations that have been deemed necessary to maintain confidence in the judiciary.