AJ Brown is Senior Research Fellow in Griffith Law School, and Director of Griffith University’s Federalism Project. His most recent books are Restructuring Australia: Regionalism Republicanism and Reform of the Nation State (coedited with Wayne Hudson, Federation Press, 2004) and Federalism and Regionalism in Australia: New Approaches, New Institutions? (coedited with Jenny Bellamy, ANU Press, 2007).

A constitutional lawyer and political scientist, AJ Brown has worked in Commonwealth and state governments and the judicial systems, and currently researches in constitutional theory, public accountability and environmental policy at the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance at Griffith University.