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By Lesley Dingle and Daniel Bates

Professor Cheryl Saunders

  • 1944: Quetta, India Aug 28
  • 1949: Settled in Australia
  • 1966: BA LLB (Hons) University of Melbourne
  • 1976: PhD University of Melbourne
  • 1989: Professor of Law and Personal Chair, Faculty of Law.
  • 2007: Laureate Professor
  • 2015: Laureate Professor Emeritus, Melbourne Law School,
  • Associate Dean
  • Director, Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies

Visiting Professorships

  • Cambridge
  • Paris
  • Indiana
  • Hong Kong
  • Copenhagen
  • Friburg
  • Cape Town
  • Auckland

Legal Involvement with constitutions of

  • Fiji
  • South Africa
  • Zimbabwe
  • Sri Lanka
  • East Timor
  • Iraq

Positions on various associations and committees

  • 1981-93: Administrative Review Council
  • 1984-88: Commonwealth Archives Council
  • 1987-93: President, Administrative Review Council of Commonwealth
  • 1991-2000: Deputy Chair, Australian Constitutional Centenary Foundation
  • 1988-2004: 2007-09, Director, Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies
  • 2005-10: Member, Judicial Remuneration Tribunal (Vic.)
  • 2005-10: President, International Association of Centre for Federal Studies
  • 2007: President Emeritus, International. Association on Constitutional Law
  • 2007: Founding Member Australian Academy Law
  • 2008: Participant, Future of Australian Governance

Awards

  • 1994: Order of Australia
  • 1994: Fellow Academy Social Sciences Australia
  • 2003 Centenary Medal
  • 2005: Hon. Doctorate Univerity of Cordoba (Argentina)
  • 2007: Foundation Fellow Australian Academy of Law
  • 2009: Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur (France)
  • Fellow Australian Council of Law