Liz Hicks is a Lecturer at Melbourne Law School, where she is a member of the Centre for Law and Environment and Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies. She holds a doctorate in comparative constitutional law from Humboldt University of Berlin and Melbourne Law School. She also holds an an LLM in German and European Law and Legal Practice from Humboldt University of Berlin, funded through the Heinrich Böll foundation, and a Bachelor of Arts (German, Honours) / Law (Honours) from Monash University.
During her stay at Hertie Liz will work on a project that compares judicial treatment of civil disobedience and state repression of protest in a range of jurisdictions. This will interrogate judicial assumptions regarding the nature of democracy and compare trends across jurisdictions. She also aims to build a collaborative research network and is eager to hear from other scholars or practitioners working in this space.
