Rate My Professor Andrea Dolcetti

Dr. Andrea Dolcetti is a Lecturer in Law at Macquarie University's Macquarie Law School. He teaches Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, and Theories of Law and Justice, and co-convenes the Macquarie Law School Seminar Series. Dolcetti also serves on the executive board of the Macquarie University Ethics and Agency Research Centre, where he leads mentorship initiatives supporting Early Career Researchers. His academic background includes a DPhil in Law from the University of Oxford, awarded on 12 November 2016, and his first degree from the University of Genoa, Italy. Prior to Macquarie University, he spent several years at the University of Oxford as a graduate student, College Lecturer, and Junior Research Fellow. He remains affiliated as a Research Associate with the Programme for the Foundations of Law and Constitutional Government at Oxford Law Faculty since 2017 and as a Corresponding Fellow of the Tarello Institute for Legal Philosophy at the University of Genoa since 2013. Dolcetti is a member of the International Association of Constitutional Law’s research group on ‘Membership and Exclusion under Constitutions’, the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, and the Australasian Society of Legal Philosophy.

Dolcetti's research specializations include general jurisprudence, general theory of the state, legal interpretation and legal reasoning, constitutional theory, comparative law, history of political thought, and the epistemology of the social sciences. His scholarship examines fundamental legal concepts such as sovereignty, the nature of legal norms, and the complexities of judicial reasoning, particularly legal disagreements and statutory interpretation, often incorporating comparative and interdisciplinary dimensions. Key publications comprise “Australian federalism after the Covid-19 pandemic” with L. Scaffardi (DPCE Online, 2025), “Derogation and defeasibility in international law” with G. B. Ratti (Oxford University Press, 2020), “L’eredità di Joseph Raz nella filosofia del diritto” with D. Canale (Rivista di Filosofia del Diritto, 2024), and contributions to edited volumes including Reading HLA Hart’s The Concept of Law (Hart Publishing, 2013). He was awarded a Junior Research Fellowship in Law by Trinity College, Oxford in 2017. Dolcetti contributes editorially as a reviewer for the UNSW Law Journal and the American Journal of Jurisprudence.