Rate My Professor Patrick Graham

Dr. Patrick Graham is a Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of New England, where he currently serves as LLB Course Coordinator. He earned his LLB and LLM from the London School of Economics and completed his PhD at Queen Mary, University of London, focusing his doctoral thesis on the nature of emergency powers in early twentieth-century Britain. Before entering academia full-time, Graham worked as a political researcher in Westminster. His academic career at the University of New England encompasses teaching and research in constitutional law and related fields.

Graham's research specializations encompass constitutional and administrative law, European Union law, emergency powers in the common law world, native title, the implied freedom of political communication, Northern Irish constitutionalism, and the legal history of emergency powers. He has authored numerous publications in prominent journals and books, including 'Burdening the implied freedom of political communication: method, ideas, and disagreement' (2025) 48(3) University of New South Wales Law Journal 1036–1069; 'Reform of a constitutional fundamental: the principle of cross-community consent and Northern Ireland’s governance' (2025) 76(3) Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly (forthcoming); 'The prerogative in Northern Ireland' in Samuel White (ed.), The Royal Prerogative Across the Commonwealth (LexisNexis, 2026) 75–92; 'Restraint and Radicalism: Sir John Latham's Constitutional Exceptionalism' (2021) 45(1) Melbourne University Law Review 161; 'What is a burden on political communication? Method and disagreement in Ruddick v Commonwealth' (2022) 33(3) Public Law Review 177; and 'Secessionism and Emergency: Introduction' in R Albert and Y Roznai (eds.), Constitutionalism under Extreme Conditions (Springer, 2020). Graham has received the Francis Forbes Society for Australian Legal History research scholarship (2021), a Studentship in Public Law from Queen Mary, University of London (2011–2014), and a Research Grant from the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law, University of Haifa (2014). He teaches LAW172 Contract Law, LAW346 and LLM546 Law and Crisis: The Use of Emergency Powers, and LAW375 Australian Competition and Consumer Law. Graham holds memberships in the Australian Association of Constitutional Law and the Society of Legal Scholars.