Rate My Professor Edward Mussawir

Dr. Edward Mussawir is a Senior Lecturer in the Griffith Law School at Griffith University. He earned his PhD from the University of Melbourne, with a doctoral thesis titled 'Jurisdiction: The Expression and Representation of Law,' supervised by Professors Peter Rush and Anne Orford during the period 2005-2010. Throughout his career at Griffith University, Mussawir has established himself as a scholar in jurisprudence, exploring intricate themes such as jurisdiction, judgment, legal personality, the legal status of animals, and the historical work of jurists. His research draws on continental philosophy, particularly the ideas of Gilles Deleuze, to interrogate fundamental legal concepts and their expressions in judicial practice and theory.

Mussawir's key publications include the monograph Jurisdiction in Deleuze: The Expression and Representation of Law (Routledge, 2011), which has garnered over 100 citations and examines the philosophical underpinnings of legal jurisdiction. He co-edited Spaces of Justice: Peripheries, Passages, Appropriations (Routledge, 2017) with Dr. Chris Butler, contributing to spatial and critical approaches in legal theory. Prominent journal articles feature 'The Law of Persons Today: At the Margins of Jurisprudence' (co-authored with Connal Parsley, Law and Critique, 2017, cited over 50 times), 'Human Rights after Deleuze: Towards an An-Archic Jurisprudence' (Jurisprudence, 2024), 'The Term Species in Justinian's Digest: Against the Object of a "General" Jurisprudence' (2022), 'Technics and Polemics in the Project of Non-Human Rights' (Law, Culture and the Humanities, 2017), and 'On the Use of the Humanities for Legal Expertise: The New Advocate' (2023). With approximately 279 citations on Google Scholar, his scholarship has impacted critical legal studies, influencing debates on legal theory, non-human rights, and jurisprudential techniques. Mussawir teaches in the Bachelor of Laws (Honours) program and related double degrees, covering advanced legal theory topics. He has also engaged in book reviews and contributions to socio-legal discussions.