Professor and Deputy Dean Bachelor of Arts [Honours] - Sydney University Bachelor of Laws [Honours] - Sydney University Master of Laws - Sydney University Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice - University of Technology, Sydney Professor Patrick Keyzer joined Bond University in 2006 after previous work as a solicitor, barrister, academic, consultant and Executive Associate to the Chief Justice of Australia. Keyzer is a constitutional lawyer who represents clients in the High Court of Australia and in the Supreme Courts of New South Wales, the Northern Territory, Queensland and Vanuatu. Keyzer has written a number of texts on constitutional law, and has a particular research interest in the topic of access to justice. Keyzer has completed grant-funded research for the Australian Research Council, the Criminology Research Council and the Queensland Attorney-General's LPITAF Fund. Research interests & research expertise Along with scholars from Monash, UTS and several overseas institutions, Keyzer recently won ARC funding for 2008-2010 to advance his research interest in the preventive detention of dangerous offenders. During 2008 Keyzer will work on this project and also a LPITAF-funded project to develop and evaluate a free legal advice service for ageing carers of people with intellectual disability.
Articles
Indefinite detention of sex offenders and human rights: The intervention of the human rights committee of the United Nations (with Ian Freckleton), Psychology, Psychiatry and Law (2010)
In 2010 The Human Rights Committee of the United Nations (the UNHCR) made rulings on...
The 'preventive detention' of serious sex offenders: Further consideration of the international human rights dimensions, Psychiatry, psychology and law (2009)
Several State jurisdictions in Australia have implemented legislation that detains a sex offender in prison...
Attorney-General (Qld) v Lawrence [2008] QSC 230: The Dangerous Prisoners (Sexual Offenders) Act - Are "the best available rehabilitative resources" available?, Criminal law journal (2009)
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Sex offences are a horrible form of violence and warrant society's most severe...
Reintegrating sex offenders into the community: Queensland's proposed reforms (with Ian R. Coyle), Alternative law journal (2009)
In June 2003 the Queensland Parliament enacted the Dangerous Prisoners (Sexual Offenders) Act (DPSOA). The...
Preserving due process or warehousing the undesirables: To what end the separation of judicial power of the Commonwealth?, Law papers (2008)
The High Court has decided that Australian courts can order imprisonment for ‘non-punitive purposes’. This...
Books
Open constitutional courts, Open constitutional courts (2010)
Sometimes a group is rich enough and philanthropic enough to fund a constitutional challenge to...
Principles of Australian constitutional law, Principles of Australian constitutional law (2010)
Principles of Australian Constitutional Law is the 3rd edition of the successful work formerly published...
Community engagement in contemporary legal education: Pro bono, clinical education and service-learning (with Amy Kenworthy and Gail S. Wilson), Teaching and learning papers (2009)
Hanks' Australian constitutional law - Materials and commentary (with Jennifer Clarke and James Stellios), Hanks' Australian constitutional law - Materials and commentary (2009)
This classic work, first written by P J Hanks QC more than thirty-five years ago,...
Sex offenders and preventive detention: Politics, policy and practice (with Bernadette McSherry), Sex offenders and preventive detention: Politics, policy and practice (2009)
How should society manage sex offenders who are released from prison? How can sex offenders...
Contributions to Books
The international human rights parameters for the preventive detention of serious sex offenders, Dangerous People: Policy, prediction and practice (2011)
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In Australia, four states enable the continued detention of serious sex offenders in prison, rather...
Using 'deeper' case method to introduce legal theory and context, Excellence and Innovation in Legal Education (2011)
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Australian legal education has undoubtedly come a long way in the past 20 years. At...
Other
Preventive detention for 'dangerous' offenders in Australia: a critical analysis and proposals for policy development: report to the Criminology Research Council (with Bernadette McSherry and Arie Freiberg), Patrick Keyzer (2006)
The management of 'dangerous' offenders is of crucial community concern. This report focuses on the...