David Kearns

David Kearns is Lecturer in Legal History and Philosophy at the University of Queensland. His work focuses on the Australian reception of the common law. He received his PhD from the University of Sydney in 2020, and an MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History from the University of Cambridge in 2015. David examines the history of the early modern common law, including debates over the relationship between the common law, state, and sovereignty, and the Australian reception of these debates.