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Dr Dylan Lino

Senior Lecturer
TC Beirne School of Law
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Researcher biography

Dylan Lino researches in constitutional law and colonialism, especially in their historical and theoretical contexts. Much of his research has focused on the rights and status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples within Australia's settler constitutional order. He has also written on the imperial entanglements of British constitutional thought, focusing on the work of Victorian jurist AV Dicey. He holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and a Bachelor of Arts from UNSW, a Master of Laws from Harvard University and a PhD from the University of Melbourne.

Dylan's research can be downloaded from SSRN. He is also on Twitter at @Dylan_Lino.

Featured projects Duration
Digitising the Drafting of the Australian Constitution
2023–2025

Publications

Books (2)
Book Chapters (2)
Journal Articles (16)
Working Paper (1)

Books

Appleby, Gabrielle, Davis, Megan, Lino, Dylan and Reilly, Alexander (2023). Australian Public Law. 4th ed. Melbourne, VIC Australia: Oxford University Press.
Lino, Dylan (2018). Constitutional recognition: First Peoples and the Australian settler state. Sydney, NSW Australia: Federation Press.

Book Chapters

Synot, Edward and Lino, Dylan (2019). The recognition and protection of Indigenous rights. The legal protection of rights in Australia. (pp. 247-264) edited by Matthew Groves, Janina Boughey and Dan Meagher. Oxford, United Kingdom: Hart Publishing.
Lino, Dylan (2018). Indigenous recognition. Australian constitutional values. (pp. 243-263) edited by Rosalind Dixon. Oxford, United Kingdom: Hart Publishing.

Journal Articles

Lino, Dylan (2023). Why a First Nations Voice will not extinguish Indigenous sovereignty. Public Law Review, 34 (2), 95-102.
Lino, Dylan (2022). Conservative constitutional rights in 1940s Australia. Melbourne University Law Review, 45 (3), 1175-1225.
Larkin, Dani, Hobbs, Harry, Lino, Dylan and Maguire, Amy (2022). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, law reform and the return of the states. University of Queensland Law Journal, 41 (1), 35-58. doi: 10.38127/uqlj.v41i1.6353
Lino, Dylan (2020). The Australian Constitution as symbol. Federal Law Review, 48 (4), 543-555. doi: 10.1177/0067205x20955076
Lino, Dylan (2019). Are human rights enough (in Australia)?. The Sydney Law Review, 41 (1), 281-291.
Lino, Dylan (2018). The rule of law and the rule of empire: A.V. Dicey in imperial context. Modern Law Review, 81 (5), 739-764. doi: 10.1111/1468-2230.12363
Lino, Dylan (2017). The indigenous franchise and assimilation. Australian Historical Studies, 48 (3), 363-380. doi: 10.1080/1031461X.2017.1313875
Lino, Dylan (2017). Towards Indigenous-settler federalism. Public Law Review, 28 (2), 118-137.
Lino, Dylan (2017). Thinking outside the Constitution on Indigenous constitutional recognition: entrenching the Racial Discrimination Act. Australian Law Journal, 91 (5), 381-385.
Lino, Dylan (2016). Albert Venn Dicey and the constitutional theory of empire. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 36 (4), 751-780. doi: 10.1093/ojls/gqw004
Lino, Dylan (2016). What is constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples?. Indigenous Law Bulletin, 8 (24), 3-9.
Lino, Dylan and Davis, Megan (2012). Speaking ill of the dead: a comment on Section 25 of the Constitution. Public Law Review, 23 (4), 231-235.
Lino, Dylan (2011). Replacing the race power: a reply to Pritchard. Australian Indigenous Law Review, 15 (2), 58-63.
Davis, Megan and Lino, Dylan (2010). Constitutional reform and Indigenous peoples. Indigenous Law Bulletin, 7 (19) 13, 3-7.
Lino, Dylan (2010). Monetary compensation and the Stolen Generations: a critique of the Commonwealth Labor Government’s position. Australian Indigenous Law Review, 14 (1), 18-34.
Lino, Dylan (2010). The politics of inclusion: the right of self-determination, statutory bills of rights and Indigenous peoples. Melbourne University Law Review, 34 (3), 839-869.

Working Paper

Ananian-Walsh, Rebecca, Billings, Peter, Cassimatis Am, Anthony, Larkin, Dani and Lino, Dylan (2023). Submission on the Constitutional Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 . Submission Number 77. Joint Select Committee on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice Referendum .

Areas of research

Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law
Constitutional Law
Indigenous Peoples and the Law
Legal History