Professor Cheryl Saunders

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