Rate My Professor Constance Lee

Dr. Constance Lee is a Lecturer in the School of Law at Adelaide University, part of the College of Business and Law. She holds a PhD from the University of Queensland, awarded in 2021. Her career trajectory spans multiple prestigious Australian institutions. Most recently, she served as Lecturer and Course Coordinator in Constitutional Law and Community Justice Project at the University of South Australia in 2024. From 2021 to 2023, at Central Queensland University, she was Lecturer, First Year Discipline Lead, and Orientation Coordinator, coordinating courses such as Statutory Interpretation, Jurisprudence, and Constitutional Law. Earlier, from 2012 to 2018, she worked as a Sessional Law Academic and Research Associate at the University of Queensland, teaching Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence, Asian Legal Systems, International Humanitarian Law, and Advanced Jurisprudence. She also held a position as Language and Learning Educator at Queensland University of Technology from 2018 to 2019, focusing on academic literacy for law students. Prior to academia, Dr. Lee practiced criminal law for over six years.

Dr. Lee's research lies at the intersection of constitutional law and jurisprudence, delving into the philosophical foundations of law, the role of conscience and human nature in grounding legal obligations, natural law within the Calvinist tradition, duty-based constitutionalism comparing John Calvin and Confucian philosophy, institutional integrity via constitutional silences, and judicial independence. Her influential publications include co-editing the Research Handbook on Natural Law Theory (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019), the forthcoming monograph Natural Law and the Nature of Government: John Calvin's Constitutional Theology (Routledge, 2026), and co-authoring Jurisprudence and Theology: The Australian School (Routledge, 2025). Key journal articles feature "Conscience and the continuum of constitutionalism: John Calvin on civil government" (Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 2023), "The spark that still shines: John Calvin on conscience and natural law" (Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 2019), and "The duties that bind us: an analysis of duty-based constitutionalism in Confucian and Calvinian thought" (University of Queensland Law Journal, 2023). She has earned accolades such as the Unstoppable Nominee Award at the University of South Australia (2024), Student Voice Award for Legal Theory (2020), Platinum Teaching Award for Statutory Interpretation at Central Queensland University (2019), and Best Tutor for a Core Law Course at the University of Queensland (2013). Dr. Lee contributes editorially to the Australian Journal of Law and Religion and holds an External Fellowship at the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law, University of Queensland.