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Dr Michael Head is a Professor of Law at Western Sydney University, having previously taught law at La Trobe, Adelaide and the Australian National University. He holds a master’s degree in law from New York’s Columbia University, and became Western Sydney University’s first PhD graduate in law in 2004.

Professor Head is the author of a number of legal works, including Emergency Powers in Theory and Practice: The Long Shadow of Carl Schmitt (Ashgate, 2016), Crimes Against the State: From Treason to Terrorism (Ashgate, 2011), Calling Out the Troops (The Federation Press, 2009), The Legal Power to Declare War: Who Decides? (with Kristian Boehringer, Routledge, 2019), Democracy, Protest and the Law: Defending a Democratic Right (Routledge, 2024), Evgeny Pashukanis: A Critical Re-appraisal (Routledge-Cavendish, 2007) and Revolution, Marxism and Law: Pashukanis Revisited (Routledge, 2026). He is also now the lead author of the popular textbook Douglas and Jones’s Administrative Law, 9th ed (The Federation Press, 2024).

His teaching and research interests lie in Jurisprudence, Administrative Law, Refugee and Immigration Law, and Law and Society. He publishes regularly in the fields of socialist legal theory and civil liberties.