Dr Jacob Deem is a Lecturer at CQUniversity's Law School. He specialises in public law research, focusing particularly on federalism, constitutional law and the principle of subsidiarity. His published works on these topics include lead authorship of ‘Subsidiarity in the Australian Public Service’ (in Australian Journal of Public Administration) and ‘Beyond the Canberra Bubble’ (in From Turnbull to Morrison), and co-authorship of ‘A Tale of Two Regionalisms (in Regional Studies). He has also contributed chapters on placemaking, local governance and Constitutional reform to volumes such as the Oxford Handbook of Australian Politics (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) and A People’s Federation (Federation Press, 2017). His forthcoming book, Decentralization and the Federal Spirit (published by McGill Queen's University Press) uncovers the link between citizens political values and the allocation of power in federal countries.
Jacob teaches Administrative Law and Principles of Commercial Law at CQUniversity, and has previously taught courses in Constitutional Law, Australian Politics, Political Leadership, and the Mechanics of Power at Griffith University.
Experience
2019–present
Lecturer, CQUniversity
Education
2018
Griffith University, PhD
2014
Griffith University, Bachelor of Law (Hons)/Bachelor of Psychological Science
Publications
2022
Decentralization and the Federal Spirit: Subsidiarity's Quest for Meaning, McGill Queen's University Press
2020
When Should the People Decide?: Citizen Trust and Public Support for Direct Democracy in Australia, Parliamentary Affiars
2018
‘Surveillance and Self Assessment: Foucault and Latour in the Australian Taxation System’, Curtin Law and Taxation Review
2018
Are All Constitutional Rules Created Equal? Substantive Hierarchy in Constitutions in Theory and Practice, Journal of Malaysian and Comparative Law
2016
‘A Tale of Two Regionalisms: Improving the Measurement of Regionalism in Australia and Beyond’, Regional Studies
2015
'Subsidiarity in the Australian Public Sector: Finding Pragmatism in the Principle’, Australian Journal of Public Administration
Grants and Contracts
2021
Breaking barriers to videoconferencing by assessing client digital inclusion