{{Short description|New Zealand lawyer (born 1965)}} {{for|the Missouri politician|Noel Cox (politician)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox clergy | honorific_prefix = [[The Reverend]]<!--Use of the title "Dr" is not in accordance with Wikipedia's Manual of Style; see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS:DOCTOR --> | name = Noel Cox | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRHistS|size=100%}} | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1965|06|03|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Auckland]], [[New Zealand]] | alma_mater = {{unbulleted list|[[University of Auckland]]|[[University of Wales, Lampeter]]}} | religion = Christianity ([[Anglicanism|Anglican]]) | spouse = | image = Noel_Cox.jpg | occupation = [[Lawyer]], [[legal scholar]] and [[priest]] | church = [[Church in Wales]] | ordained = {{unbulleted list|2012 (deacon)|2013 (priest)}} }} '''Noel Cox''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRHistS}} (born 3 June 1965) is a [[New Zealand]]–born [[lawyer]], [[legal scholar]], and [[Anglicanism|Anglican]] [[priest]].
==Personal== Cox was raised in Auckland, New Zealand.<ref name=AUnews>Aberystwyth University Press Release. 28 July 2010 [https://web.archive.org/web/20130104234945/http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/news/archive/2010/07/title-88941-en.html New Head of Law and Criminology]</ref> He is an advocate of the [[monarchy in New Zealand]].<ref name=Wales2014/>
==Career== Cox earned an [[Bachelor of Laws|LLB]] and an [[Master of Laws|LLM]] degree from the [[University of Auckland]], an [[Master of Theology|MTh]] degree, an [[Master of Arts|MA]] degree in ecclesiastical law, an [[Licence in Theology|LTh]] from the [[University of Wales Lampeter]], and a [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] degree in Political Studies from the University of Auckland. His doctoral thesis was titled ''The evolution of the New Zealand monarchy: The recognition of an autochthonous polity''.<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Cox |first=Noel |year=2001 |type=Doctoral thesis |title=The evolution of the New Zealand monarchy: The recognition of an autochthonous polity |publisher=ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland |hdl=2292/107 |url=https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/107}}</ref><ref>{{CiteQ|Q16195958}}</ref> His main field of research has been constitutional law. In 2004 he was elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Historical Society]] (FRHistS) for his work on Commonwealth jurisprudence.<ref name=AUnews/>
Starting in 2010 he was a professor and Head of the Department of Law and Criminology at [[Aberystwyth University]], Wales,<ref>[http://aberstudentmedia.com/2013/11/12/head-of-law-and-criminology-department-steps-down/ Aberystwyth Student Media, Head of Law and Criminology Department Steps Down]</ref> but was dismissed on May 22, 2014, due to alleged breaches of University financial and data protection regulations, and according to a statement by the university, a breach of the University's duty of care towards a member of staff.<ref name=Wales2014>[http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/top-academic-aberystwyth-university-professor-7225040 Wales Online]</ref>
He was ordained as a deacon in the [[Church in Wales]] in June 2012 and a priest in June 2013.<ref>[http://www.churchinwales.org.uk/structure/clergy/?id=4257 Church in Wales - clergy database]</ref>
==Publications== * ''The Coronation and the Constitution in the British Tradition'' ([[Palgrave Macmillan]], London, 2025; {{ISBN|978-3-031-88959-2}}) * ''The Royal Prerogative and Constitutional Law: A search for the quintessence of executive power'' ([[Routledge]], Abingdon, 2020; {{ISBN|0367500795}}, {{ISBN|9780367500795}}) * ''Priest of the Church or Priest of a Church? The Ecclesiology of Ordained Local Ministry'' ([[Rowman & Littlefield]] Ltd, London, 2021; {{ISBN|1978711859}}) * ''Technology and Legal Systems'' ([[Ashgate Publishing]] Ltd, [[Aldershot]], 2006; {{ISBN|978-075-464-544-3}}) * ''A Constitutional History of the New Zealand Monarchy: The evolution of the New Zealand monarchy and the recognition of an autochthonous polity'' ([[VDM Publishing|V.D.M. Verlag Dr. Müller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. K.G.]], [[Saarbrücken]], 2008; {{ISBN|978-3-639-00877-7}}) * ''Church and State in the Post-Colonial Era: The Anglican Church and the Constitution in New Zealand'' (Polygraphia (NZ) Ltd, [[Auckland]], 2008; {{ISBN|978-1-877-33260-9}}) * ''The catholicity of ordained ministry in the Anglican Communion: An examination of the ecclesiology implicit in the validity of orders debate'' ([[VDM Publishing|V.D.M. Verlag Dr. Müller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. K.G.]], [[Saarbrücken]], 2009; {{ISBN|978-3-639-12036-3}}) * ''Academical Dress in New Zealand: A Study'' ([[VDM Publishing|V.D.M. Verlag Dr. Müller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. K.G.]], [[Saarbrücken]], 2010; {{ISBN|978-3-639-29927-4}}) * ''Constitutional paradigms and the stability of states'' ([[Ashgate Publishing]] Ltd, [[Farnham]], 2012; {{ISBN|978-0-7546-7920-2}}) * "Authority for the use of the Royal Arms in Churches". ''Ecclesiastical Law Journal''. 2000; 5 (27): 408–416. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956618X00004002
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links ==
* [http://www.geocities.ws/noelcox/ Website] {{authority control}}
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