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