Janet McLean

Janet Margaret McLean is a New Zealand law academic. She is currently a full professor at the University of Auckland. Mcleans' interests include constitutional law, administrative law, legal method, comparative human rights law and common law theory.

In December 2019, McLean was appointed as a Queen's Counsel.

In March 2021, McLean was made Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, in recognition that she "has transformed colonial and contemporary understandings of the nature of the Crown in the United Kingdom and Aotearoa New Zealand, including in the Tiriti o Waitangi."

Selected works

The province of administrative law 1997. (with Michael Taggart) Property and the constitution 1999. Searching for the state in British legal thought : competing conceptions of the public sphere 2012.

Personal life

McLean is married to Tim Mulgan, professor of philosophy formerly at St Andrews University and then of the University of Auckland.