Kristen Rundle

Professor Kristen Rundle joined Melbourne Law School at the University of Melbourne in 2015, where she teaches administrative law and legal theory. Prior to this, she held appointments at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the University of New South Wales, and the University of Sydney. She served as Co-Director of the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies from 2017 to 2020. Rundle holds adjunct, visiting, and honorary appointments at New York University Law School as Hauser Global Visiting Faculty in 2024, the Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London, the University of Toronto, the University of Victoria, the University of Ottawa, Erasmus University, and the Whitlam Institute at Western Sydney University, where she was Whitlam Fellow from 2015 to 2018.

Her research lies at the intersection of legal theory and public law, examining the conditions for law to function as a limitation on power, drawing on the jurisprudence of Lon L. Fuller, and addressing administrative responsibilities amid neoliberal and managerial governance. Key publications include Forms Liberate: Reclaiming the Jurisprudence of Lon L. Fuller (Hart Publishing, 2012), Revisiting the Rule of Law (Cambridge University Press, 2022), and co-authorship of Principles of Administrative Law and accompanying Cases (Oxford University Press, editions in 2018, 2023, and 2027). She has published in journals such as Law and Philosophy, University of Toronto Law Journal, Jurisprudence, Modern Law Review, and Public Law Review, and contributed chapters to The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law (2021). In 2026, she co-authors the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on the Rule of Law with Professor Jeremy Waldron. Awards include the University of Melbourne Woodward Medal in the Humanities and Social Sciences (2017), second prize in the UK Society of Legal Scholars Peter Birks Book Prize (2012), and delivery of the Kobe Memorial Lecture in Legal and Political Philosophy (2018), as the first woman and first Australian to do so. Professional roles encompass Trustee of the Lionel Murphy Foundation (since 2017), Advisory Board member of the Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy (since 2015), former Secretary of the Australian Society of Legal Philosophy (2014-2018), and editorial board member of Jurisprudence (since 2013).

Professional Email: kristen.rundle@unimelb.edu.au