Dr Jacob Deem is a Lecturer in the College of Law, Criminology and Justice at CQUniversity. He specialises in public law research, focusing particularly on federalism, constitutional law and the principle of subsidiarity. His forthcoming book, Rethinking Decentralization (published by McGill Queen's University Press) uncovers the link between citizens’ political values and the allocation of power in federal countries, and his other published works on these topics include lead authorship of ‘Federal Reform: The Case for Supportive Subsidiarity’ (in UNSW Law Journal) and ‘Beyond the Canberra Bubble’ (in From Turnbull to Morrison), and co-authorship of ‘A Tale of Two Regionalisms (in Regional Studies). He has also contributed chapters on placemaking, local governance and constitutional reform to volumes such as the Oxford Handbook of Australian Politics (Oxford University Press, 2021) and A People’s Federation (Federation Press, 2017).

Dr Deem has provided consultancy advice to the Commonwealth and Queensland governments, the Fair Work Commission, and has conducted research with the Victorian Mental Health Legal Centre and the Central Queensland Community Legal Centre.

Dr Deem teaches Administrative Law and Principles of Commercial Law at CQUniversity’s College of Law, Criminology and Justice. Previously, he has taught Constitutional Law and Australian Politics at Griffith University.