Janet McLean | |
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 McLean in 2022 | |
| Spouse | Tim Mulgan |
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| Alma mater | University of Michigan |
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| Website | University of Auckland profile |
Janet Margaret McLean KC FRSNZ is a New Zealand law academic. She is currently a full professor at the University of Auckland. [1] Mcleans' interests include constitutional law, administrative law, legal method, comparative human rights law and common law theory. [2] She is a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.
After a LLB(Hons) at Victoria University of Wellington and an LL.M. at the University of Michigan, McLean worked for the New Zealand Law Commission and Victoria University of Wellington and then the University of Auckland from 1991 to 2006. Moving to University of Dundee as full professor, she returned to Auckland in 2011, again as full professor. [2]
In December 2019, McLean was appointed as a Queen's Counsel. [3]
In March 2021, McLean was made Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, in recognition that she "has transformed colonial and contemporary understandings of the nature of the Crown in the United Kingdom and Aotearoa New Zealand, including in the Tiriti o Waitangi." [4]
McLean is married to Tim Mulgan, professor of philosophy formerly at St Andrews University and then of the University of Auckland. [5]
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