Rev'd Professor Noel Cox
Head of Department
LLB LLM(Hons) MTheol(Hons) PhD (Auckland) MA(Lambeth) LTh (Lampeter) GradDipTertTchg (Auckland University of Technology) FRHistS Barrister (Inner Temple)
Contact
Email: noel.cox@aber.ac.uk
Office: D26 Hugh Owen Building
Phone: (01970) 621910
Fax: (01970) 622729
Responsibilities
Research Excellence Framework co-ordinator
member of the Research Ethics Committee
member of the Research Committee
chair of the Health and Safety Committee
Bar Professional Training Course applications tutor
Teaching Areas
Constitutional Law LA36220; Cross-Border Legal Issues LAM4020; Legal System and Skills LA14230/14720/34230/34720; Origins of the Common Law LA33210.
Postgraduate Supervision - All areas of constitutional law, but especially aspects of the Crown, State, sovereignty, and Law and Religion.
Research
My major field of research interest is aspects of the Crown, State, and sovereignty including constitutional modelling and the historical evolution of constitutions and ecclesiastical law.
Biography
I am Professor of Law and Head of Department of Law and Criminology, Aberystwyth University. My main field of research interest is constitutional law (mainly aspects of the Crown, State, and sovereignty) and ecclesiastical law.
My work has been published in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, the Netherlands, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. I have presented conference papers in Australia, England, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United States of America, and Wales, and been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge (Wolfson and St Edmund’s Colleges) and The Australian National University.
I taught for a decade at the Auckland University of Technology, where I was head of the department of law (and where I received the 2002 Award for Excellence in Research), and in the Czech Republic, Poland and the United Kingdom. I am a barrister of the Inner Temple, and admitted to practice in New Zealand and seven Australian states, and practised for a time in New Zealand. I am Legal Adviser to the Royal House of Sulu (and Grand Cordon of the Royal and Hashemite Order of the Pearl (GCPS)), and Patron of the Australian Monarchist League. Apart from the Royal Historical Society, I am a Fellow of the Burgon Society, the International Association of Amateur Heralds, and of Monarchy New Zealand.
I am a deacon in the Church in Wales, serving as non stipendiary Assistant Curate in the parish of Llanbadarn Fawr. St Padarn's Church is named after its founder 1,500 years ago, who also give his name to the village of Llanbadarn Fawr.
Staff Publications
Selected publications:
Conference Papers
“Heredity and parliamentary title, and claims to the throne” (The Royal Body Conference, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2nd-4th April 2012)
“The contribution of Dafydd Jenkins to the study of Welsh Legal History at Aberystwyth” (Seminar Cyfraith Hywel in Honour of Dafydd Jenkins, Aberystwyth, 5th March 2011)
"Constitution building in Wales – its broader context and an inward or outward focus" (The Future of Devolution in Wales, Welsh Assembly Government Annual Legal Services Conference, Temple of Peace, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, 15th February 2011).
"The Evolution of the Office of Governor-General of New Zealand" (Socio-Legal Studies Association 2002 Annual Conference, University of Wales Aberystwyth, Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom, 3rd-5th April 2002).
"The extraterritorial enforcement of consumer legislation and the challenge of the internet" (18th Law Association for Asia and the Pacific Biennial Conference, Tokyo, Japan, 1st-5th September 2003).
"The Legitimacy of government and the normative influence of the Crown" (43rd Association of Law Teachers Conference, St Anne's College, University of Oxford, 16th-18th March 2008).
Books, Chapters and Journal Articles
Constitutional paradigms and the stability of states (Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Farnham, April 2012)
“The Legal Position of the Anglican Church in New Zealand – quasi-establishment and the consenual compact” (Hilary/Easter 2012) 168 Law and Justice: The Christian Law Review 62-88
“The gradual curtailment of the royal prerogative” (2012) 25 Denning Law Journal 65-83
"The Crown Down Under: Issues and Trends in Australia and New Zealand" in Jennifer Smith and D. Michael Jackson (eds), The evolving Canadian crown (Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, 2012) 193-202
"Peter Boyce, The Queen’s Other Realms: The Crown and Its Legacy in Australia, Canada and New Zealand (Sydney: Federation Press, 2009), pp v, 290." [book review] (2011) 56(4) McGill Law Journal 1207-1208
"Dealing with Classified Security Information: a Brief Comparative Survey" (December 2010) 19(3) The Commonwealth Lawyer 43-48
"The Future of the Magistracy" (18 September 2010) 174 Criminal Law and Justice Weekly 584-585
"Ethics and the valuer’s fiduciary duty and duty to adequately inform the client" (December 2010) 2(8) Australia and New Zealand Property Journal 512-518
"Legal aspects of Church-State relations in New Zealand" (2010) 8(1) Journal of Anglican Studies 9-33
The catholicity of ordained ministry in the Anglican Communion: An examination of the ecclesiology implicit in the validity of orders debate (Verlag Dr. Muller, Saarbrücken, 2009)
“Property law, imperial and British titles: The Duke of Marlborough and the Principality of Mindelheim” (2009) 77 The Legal History Review/Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis/Revue d'Histoire du Droit 191-210
"The coup d'etat and the Fiji Human Rights Commission", in Jon Fraenkel, Stewart Firth and Brij Lal (eds), The military takeover in Fiji: a coup to end all coups? (ANU Press, Canberra, 2009)
A Constitutional History of the New Zealand Monarchy: The evolution of the New Zealand monarchy and the recognition of an autochthonous polity (Verlag Dr. Muller, Saarbrücken, 2008)
Church and State in the Post-Colonial Era: The Anglican Church and the Constitution in New Zealand (Polygraphia (NZ) Ltd, Auckland, 2008)
"The Royal Prerogative in the Realms" (2007) 33 Commonwealth Law Bulletin 611-638
Technology and Legal Systems (Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, 2006)
“The Office of the Chief Herald of Ireland and continuity of legal authority” (2007) 29 Dublin University Law Journal 84-110
“The Continuing question of sovereignty and the Sovereign Military Order of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta” (2006) 13 Australian International Law Journal 211-232
“Tudor sumptuary laws and academical dress: An Act against wearing of Costly Apparel 1509 and An Act for Reformation of Excess in Apparel 1533” (2006) 6 Transactions of the Burgon Society 15-43
“The Relationship between Law, Government, Business and Technology” (Spring 2006) 8(1) Duquesne Business Law Journal 31-54
“The response of businesses to paradigmatic changes in legal systems” (2006) 9 New Zealand Yearbook of Jurisprudence 175-189
“International Law After Iraq: An Ethical or Historical Approach to Justification of Self-Defence” (2006) 13(3) Tilburg Foreign Law Review 228-256
“Copyright in Statutes, Regulations, and Decisions in Common Law Jurisdictions: Public Ownership or Commercial Enterprise?” (2006) 27(3) Statute Law Review 185-208
“The Revenge of the Arcane Exclusion Clause: The Civil Registration of Marriage and the Royal Family” (2005) 5(2) Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal 179-204
“Commonwealth Heraldic Jurisdiction: with specific emphasis on the Law of Arms in New Zealand” (2005) 1(210) The Coat of Arms (3rd series) 145-162
“The nature of ministerial authority in the Anglican Church in New Zealand” (2005) 119(2) Churchman 105-136
“The Symbiosis of Secular and Spiritual Influences upon the Judiciary of the Anglican Church in New Zealand” (2004) 9(1) Deakin Law Review 145-182
“The Laws of War and NATO attacks on Yugoslavia” (Spring 2004) 4 Chicago-Kent Journal of International and Comparative Law 4 <http://www.kentlaw.edu/jicl/articles/spring2004/Nato.pdf>
“The extraterritorial enforcement of consumer legislation and the challenge of the internet” (2004) 8(1) Edinburgh Law Review 60-83
“The Consequences for the World Legal Order of the War on Iraq” [2003] New Zealand Armed Forces Law Review 11-17
“Tax and regulatory avoidance through non-traditional alternatives to tax havens” (2003) 9(1) New Zealand Business Law Quarterly 10-32
“‘Goods’ and ‘Services’ in consumer protection Acts” [2003] New Zealand Law Journal 281-284
“Dispensation, Privileges, and the Conferment of Graduate Status: With Special Reference to Lambeth Degrees” (2002-2003) 18(1) Journal of Law and Religion 249-274
“The acquisition of sovereignty by quasi-states: The case of the Order of Malta” (2002) 6(1&2) Mountbatten Journal of Legal Studies 26-47
“The effect of the advent of the Mixed-Member Proportional voting system upon the role of the Governor-General of New Zealand” (2002) 14(2) Bond Law Review 424-441
“The abolition or retention of the Privy Council as the final Court of Appeal for New Zealand: Conflict between national identity and legal pragmatism” (2002) 20(2) New Zealand Universities Law Review 220-238
“The Treaty of Waitangi and the Relationship between Crown and Maori in New Zealand” (2002) 28(1) Brooklyn Journal of International Law 123-153
“The Theory of Sovereignty and the Importance of the Crown in the Realms of The Queen” (2002) 2(2) Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal 237-255
“Black v Chrétien: Suing a Minister of the Crown for Abuse of Power, Misfeasance in Public Office and Negligence” (September 2002) 9(3) E-Law, Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law available at <http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v9n3/cox93.html>
“The regulation of cyberspace and the loss of national sovereignty” (2002) 11(3) Information and Communications Technology Law 241-253
“Developments in the Laws of War: NATO attacks on Yugoslavia and the use of force to achieve humanitarian objectives” [2002] New Zealand Armed Forces Law Review 13-24
“The Influence of the Common Law and the Decline of the Ecclesiastical Courts of the Church of England” (2001-2002) 3(1) Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion 1-45 <http://www-camlaw.rutgers.edu/publications/law-religion/cox1.pdf> now at http://www-camlaw.rutgers.edu/publications/law-religion/articles/RJLR_3_1_3.pdf
“The Evolution of the Office of Governor-General of New Zealand” (2001) 5(1&2) Mountbatten Journal of Legal Studies 51-77
“Republican Sentiment in the Realms of the Queen: The New Zealand Perspective” (2001-2002) 29(1) Manitoba Law Journal 1-28
“The control of advice to the Crown and the development of executive independence in New Zealand” (2001) 13(1) Bond Law Review 166-189
“Conditional Gifts: Time for a review?” (2001) 9 Waikato Law Review 24-62
“Republic of Fiji v Prasad: A military government on trial” [2001] New Zealand Armed Forces Law Review 5-9
“Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in the Church of the Province of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia” (2001) 6(2) Deakin Law Review 266-284
“The intellectual property laws and the protection of armorial bearings” (2001) 12(1) Australian Intellectual Property Journal 143-152
“The Notary Public – the third arm of the legal profession” (2000) 6 New Zealand Business Law Quarterly 321-335
“Queen’s Counsel” [2000] New Zealand Law Journal 371-373 (jointly with Professor Peter Spiller)
“Authority for the use of the Royal Arms in Churches” (2000) 5 (27) Ecclesiastical Law Journal 408-416
“The Law of Succession to the Crown in New Zealand” (1999) 7 Waikato Law Review 49-72
“The Dichotomy of Legal Theory and Political Reality: The Honours Prerogative and Imperial Unity” (1998-99) 14 Australian Journal of Law and Society 15-42
“The Law of Arms in New Zealand” (1998) 18(2) New Zealand Universities Law Review 225-256
“The British Peerage: The Legal Standing of the Peerage and Baronetage in the Overseas Realms of the Crown with Particular Reference to New Zealand” (1997) 17 (4) New Zealand Universities Law Review 379-401