Ms Ashleigh Barnes

Ashleigh is a Lecturer in the School of Global and Public Law in the UNSW Faculty of Law & Justice. She is an Australian constitutional law scholar and a comparative constitutional law scholar with interests in constitutional interpretation, constitutional values, human rights and dignity. Ashleigh obtained the BCL and DPhil from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes scholar, and the LLB from the University of Technology Sydney, where she graduated with the University Medal in Law. Her doctoral research focused on dignity as an Australian constitutional value. Her work has been published in leading journals in Australia including the Melbourne University Law Review and the Sydney Law Review. She previously worked as a Lecturer at Macquarie University and as a Tutor and Lecturer at the University of Oxford, London School of Economics and the University of Technology, Sydney. At Oxford, she was a co-chair and researcher of Oxford Pro Bono Publico and a resident at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. She is a member of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law at UNSW Law & Justice. Prior to commencing her graduate studies, Ashleigh was a Tipstaff in the New South Wales Supreme Court and qualified as a solicitor in New South Wales.