Professor Noel Cox

Head of Department
LLB LLM(Hons) MTheol(Hons) PhD (Auckland) MA(Lambeth) LTh (Lampeter) GradDipTertTchg (AUT) FRHistS Barrister (Inner Temple) Photograph of Professor Noel Cox.

Contact

Email: noel.cox@aber.ac.uk
Office: D26
Phone: (01970) 621910

Teaching Areas

Constitutional Law LA16220; Cross-Border Legal Issues LAM4020; Equity and the Law of Trusts LA32900; Land Law LA36130; Legal Process LA11010; Origins of the Common Law LA33210.

Postgraduate Supervision - All areas of constitutional law, but especially aspects of the Crown, State, and 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 will be ordained a deacon in the Church in Wales in St David’s Cathedral, Wales in June. 

 



Staff Publications

Selected publications:

Conference Papers

"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).

Publications

Constitutional paradigms and the stability of states (Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Farnham, April 2012)

"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

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)

"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)

"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

"Legal aspects of Church-State relations in New Zealand" (2010) 8(1) Journal of Anglican Studies 9-33

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 Continuing question of sovereignty and the Sovereign Military Order of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta" (2006) 13 Australian International Law Journal 211-232

"Cyber-crime Jurisdiction in New Zealand", in Bert-Jaap Koops, Susan Brenner Paul de Hert (eds), Cybercrime Jurisdiction: A Global Survey, (T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague, 2006)

"Copyright in Statutes, Regulations and Decisions in Common Law Jurisdictions: Public Ownership or Commercial Enterprise?" (2006) 27 Statute Law Review 185-208

"The Relationship between Law, Government, Business and Technology" (2006) 8 Duquesne Business Law Journal 31-54

"The Revenge of the Arcane Exclusion Clause: The Civil Registration of Marriage and the Royal Family" (2005) 5 Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal 179-204