Janet McLean

Janet Margaret McLean QC is a New Zealand law academic. She is currently a full professor at the University of Auckland.[1] Mcleans' interests include constitutional law, administrative law, legal method, comparative human rights law and common law theory.[2]

Janet McLean

QC
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
Scientific career
InstitutionsNew Zealand Law Commission, Victoria University of Wellington, University of Dundee and University of Auckland
Websitehttps://unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz/people/profile/j-mclean

Personal life

McLean is married to Tim Mulgan, professor of philosophy formerly at St Andrews University and then of the University of Auckland.[3]

Career

After a LLB(Hons) at Victoria University of Wellington and a LLM at the University of Michigan, McLean worked for the New Zealand Law Commission and Victoria University of Wellington and then the University of Auckland from 1991–2006. Moving to University of Dundee as full professor, she returned to Auckland in 2011, again as full professor.[2]

In December 2019, McLean was appointed as a Queen's Counsel.[4]

Selected works
  • The province of administrative law 1997. ISBN 1901362019 (with Michael Taggart)
  • Property and the constitution 1999. ISBN 1841130559
  • Searching for the state in British legal thought : competing conceptions of the public sphere 2012. ISBN 9781107022485
gollark: But we have technological replacements for arcane social policy.
gollark: It made some sense in the past as some kind of crystallized "no promiscuity" law when we didn't have contraception and stuff.
gollark: In what way?
gollark: 5 is just elder-worship, which I do *not* agree with, no murdering is reasonable but narrow in scope, the adultery one doesn't seem very important or fundamental-law-y, stealing is bad I guess, bearing false witness is somewhat bad too I guess, the coveting ones seem unnecessary.
gollark: I like to hope I would be better than to demand obedience/worship/belief on pain of eternal torture.

References
  1. "Professor Janet McLean – The University of Auckland". Unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
  2. "Returning from Scotland as law professor – The University of Auckland". Law.auckland.ac.nz. 9 March 2011. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
  3. "Professor Janet McLean joins Auckland University". New Zealand Law Society. 29 March 2011. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
  4. Parker, David (5 December 2009). "Eight Queen's Counsel appointed under new criterion". New Zealand Government. Retrieved 9 December 2019.


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