Carlo Dellora is a legal scholar with an interest in public law, normative moral philosophy, criminal law as well as law and ethics. He has presented his work at international conferences including at Soongsil University and Melbourne Law School. Carlo’s work has been published in Sydney Law Review, Griffith Law Review, Monash University Law Review, and the Alternative Law Journal. His future research focuses on how consequentialist theories shape public policy debates. He has also published two poems.

Carlo is completing his PhD at Monash University with a focus on the relationship between public law and normative moral philosophy.

An overview of his research can be found below.

Academic Publications

• ‘Constituent Power and the Commonwealth Constitution: A Preliminary Investigation’ (co-authored with Associate Professor George Duke), Sydney Law Review (2022) 44(2).

• ‘Treating Consumption: How the Social Costs of Chain Stores Affect Consumers’, Journal of Economic Issues (2021) 55(3). (Recipient of the 2022 Editor’s Choice Award).

• ‘Imposing Fees for Police Services in Australia’ (co-authored with Professor Luke Beck), Griffith Law Review (2021) 24(4).

• ‘Free Speech Consequentialism: An Australian Account’, Monash University Law Review (2020) 46(2).

• ‘Testing the Waters: The Limits of Consequentialist Logic in Australia’s Asylum Seeker Debate’, Australian Journal of Political Science (2019) 54(1).

• ‘As Easy as Riding a Bike? How Mandatory Bicycle Helmet Laws May Harm Those Who Can Least Afford It’, the Alternative Law Journal (2019) 44(3).

Poetry

• ‘Now That the Churches Are Empty Again’ and ‘Thunderstorm Haiku’, Bonfire Books Poetry Anthology (2023).

Forthcoming Publications

• ‘Utilitarian Justifications for Lockdown Policy During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Plausible, Principled or Problematic?’ (under review).

• ‘The Limits of Consequentialist Logic in Australia’s Asylum Seeker Debate: An Updated Account’.

Conferences

• ‘Utilitarian Justifications for Lockdown Policy During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Plausible, Principled or Problematic?’ — Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory, Melbourne Law School, Australia (2024).

• ‘Utilitarian Justifications for Lockdown Policy During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Plausible, Principled or Problematic?’ — International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Soongsil University, South Korea (2024).

• ‘Weak Constituent Power and the Implied Freedom of Political Communication’ — Laureate Program in Comparative Constitutional Law Freedom of Speech Symposium, Melbourne Law School, Australia (2020).

• ‘Free Speech Consequentialism in Australia’ — Australian and New Zealand Studies Association of North America Conference, University of Guadalajara, Mexico (2020).

Awards

• Outstanding Overall Satisfaction Index Award — RMIT (Semester One, 2024).

• Outstanding Good Teaching Award — RMIT (Semester One and Two 2024).

• Editor’s Choice Award — Journal of Economic Issues (2022).