The Oxford Handbook of the Australian Constitution
Edited by Cheryl Saunders and Adrienne Stone
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Edited by Cheryl Saunders, laureate professor emeritus, University of Melbourne, and Adrienne Stone, Professor of Law, ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellow, Director, Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, University of Melbourne
Cheryl Saunders is a Laureate Professor Emeritus at Melbourne Law School, She has specialist interests in Australian and comparative public law, including comparative constitutional law and methods, intergovernmental relations and constitutional design and change, on all of which she has written widely. Professor Saunders is a President Emeritus of the International Association of Constitutional Law, a former President of the International Association of Centres for Federal Studies, a former President of the Administrative Review Council of Australia and a senior technical advisor to the Constitution Building program of International IDEA. Professor Saunders was the founding Director of the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Law. She has held visiting positions in law schools in many parts of the world.
Professor Adrienne Stone holds a Chair at Melbourne Law School where she is also an ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellow and Director of the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies. Professor Stone researches in constitutional law and constitutional theory with particular attention to freedom of expression; the theoretical underpinnings of rights and judicial method in constitutional cases. She has published widely on these topics. Her Laureate Fellowship on the theme 'Balancing Diversity and Social Cohesion in Democratic Constitutions' investigates how Constitutions, in their design and in their application, can unify while nurturing the diversity appropriate for a complex, modern society. She is First Vice President of the International Association of Constitutional Law; Vice President of the Australian Association of Constitutional Law and is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.
Contributors:
Gabrielle Appleby, Associate Professor, University of New South Wales Law School
Nicholas Aroney, Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland
Elisa Arcioni, Senior Lecturer, Sydney Law School
William Bateman, Doctoral Candidate, University of Cambridge
Sean Brennan, Associate Professor, University of New South Wales Law School
Gerard Carney, Professor, Curtin Law School
Hilary Charlesworth, Laureate Professor, Melbourne Law School
Olaf Ciolek, Barrister, List A Barristers
Lisa Burton Crawford, Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Monash University
Susan Crennan, Former Justice, High Court of Australia
Michael Crommelin, Professor, Melbourne Law School
Terence Daintith, Professorial Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
Megan Davis, Professor, University of New South Wales Law School
Stephen Donoghue, Solicitor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia
Patrick Emerton, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Monash University
Carolyn Evans, Dean, Melbourne Law School
Chief Justice Robert French, Former Chief Justice, High Court of Australia
Michelle Foster, Professor, Melbourne Law School
Justice Stephen Gageler, Justice, High Court of Australia
Justin Gleeson, Former Solicitor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia
Jeffrey Goldsworthy, Professor, Faculty of Law, Monash University
William Gummow, Former Justice, High Court of Australia
Peter Hanks, Barrister, List G Barristers
K M Hayne, Former Justice, High Court of Australia
Justice Susan Kenny, Justice, Federal Court of Australia
Chief Justice Susan Kiefel, Chief Justice, High Court of Australia
Jeremy Kirk, Barrister, Eleven Wentworth
Justice Mark Leeming, Justice, New South Wales Court of Appeal
Brendan Lim, Barrister, Eleven Wentworth
Sir Anthony Mason, former Chief Justice, High Court of Australia
Justice Stephen McLeish, Justice, Victorian Court of Appeal
Dan Meagher, Associate Professor, Deakin University
Denise Meyerson, Professor, Macquarie Law School
Justice Debbie Mortimer, Justice, Federal Court of Australia
Yee-Fui Ng, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Monash University
Nicholas Owens, Barrister, Fifth Floor St James
Cheryl Saunders, Laureate Professor, Melbourne Law School
Amelia Simpson, Associate Professor, Australian National University College of Law
James Stellios, Professor, ANU College of Law
Scott Stephenson, Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Law School
Adrienne Stone, Laureate Professor, Melbourne Law School
Joo-Cheong Tham, Associate Professor, Melbourne Law School
Anne Twomey, Professor, Sydney Law School
Kristen Walker, Principal Fellow, University of Melbourne
John Waugh, Senior Fellow, Melbourne Law School
Lael Weis, Lecturer, Melbourne Law School
Fiona Wheeler, Professor, ANU College of Law
John Williams, Professor, Adelaide Law School
