Professor Leslie Zines

(1930-2014)

By Lesley Dingle and Daniel Bates

Leslie Ronald Zines, LL.B, Sydney; LL.M Harvard; LL.D Honoris causa, ANU. Barrister NSW, legal practitioner High Court. FASSA.

  • 1930. Born
  • 1952. Graduated First Class Honours Sydney University
  • 1953-1961. Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department
  • 1955-56. Harkness Scholar, Harvard, Masters degree in Law
  • 1962. Australian National University, Senior Lecturer
  • 1965. Australian National University, Reader
  • 1967. Australian National University, Professor
  • 1977-92 Australian National University, Robert Garran Professor
  • 1973-75. Dean of Law ANU
  • 1981–1982. Member of the Royal Commission on the Tasmanian Constitution
  • 1985–1988. Constitutional Commission
  • 1987. Fellow of the Academy of Social Science, Australia
  • 1992. Order of Australia
  • 1988. Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, Smuts Memorial Commonwealth Lectures
  • 1992. Retired
  • 1992-93. Goodhart Professor, Cambridge
  • 1995. Honorary Fellow Wolfson College