Dr Tony Meacham
Assistant Professor of Law
Dr Tony Meacham joined Coventry Law School in 2016, after a career in policy administration and law review with the Australian Government in Canberra. He currently delivers modules primarily in comparative law, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
He studied for his LLB at Macquarie University in Sydney Australia, his LLM at Armidale in regional New South Wales, and his PhD from the University of Southern Queensland, at Toowoomba, Australia.
His PhD thesis examined the comparability of national constitutions across the world in how they understand and apply principles of secularism constitutionally. His research interests continue in this area especially in the study of constitutions in how they adapt to contemporary political and social circumstances, and in the study of non-democratic constitutional systems.
Tony is the Law School’s delegate to the British Association of Comparative Law and is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of International and Comparative Law (PJICL), Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University in Saudi Arabia. He is also a member of the Libraries Committee of the UK Society of Legal Scholars.
Curriculum Vitae
LLB – Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia (2000)
LLM – University of New England, Armidale, Australia (2005)
PhD – University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia (2014)
Postgraduate Certificate in Law, University of London (Equity & Trusts) (2017)
Subjects Taught
Comparative Law
Comparative Constitutional Law
Public International Law
Accolades and Appointments
Fellow, Advance HE
Fellow, Royal Asiatic Society
Editorial Board, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University Journal of International and Comparative Law (PJICL), Saudi Arabia
Libraries Committee, UK Society of Legal Scholars (SLS)
Selected Publications
- Tony Meacham, Covid-19 and Constitutional Tension – ‘Conflicts between the state and the governed’ (Book Chapter) Volume 1 Global Crisis and COVID-19: Rights, Security and Law (Routledge 2021).
- Tony Meacham, Canberra Law Review – “100 years of the Engineers’ case – How Australia carved a path away from Britain”’ (2021) 18(1) Canberra Law Review 81.
- Tony Meacham, ‘Situating modern Indian secularism: A constitutional perspective’ Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Volume IV (2020). (Book Chapter).
- Tony Meacham, ‘Are Legal Fictions still useful? Legal Fiction in English Common Law’, (2021) 26(1) Coventry Law Journal.
- Tony Meacham, ‘Constitutional secularism: then, now and the future’ (2018) 23(2) Coventry Law Journal 12.
- Tony Meacham, The Conversation, ‘I, Pastafari: We all have something to learn from the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster’. (theconversation.com, October 18, 2019).
- Tony Meacham, The Conversation, ‘It defies belief that people are still being jailed – or killed – for blasphemy’. (theconversation.com, June 27, 2017).
What students say about Tony…
“Tony ensures that we understand the topic and provides us with extra guidance on how to work through our essay. He’s quite repetitive with his guidance, however, in a good way.”