Dr Ron Levy is an Associate Professor in law at the Australian National University. He researches and writes on law and political theory: especially constitutional law, the law of politics, deliberative democracy, referendums and conflict. He has been a leader in the development of the 'deliberative constitutionalism' and 'law of deliberative democracy' fields. His books include Deliberative Peace Referendums (Oxford UP), The Cambridge Handbook of Deliberative Constitutionalism (Cambridge UP) and The Law of Deliberative Democracy (Routledge).