Cheryl Saunders

AO FASSA FAAL FBA
Born (1944-08-28) 28 August 1944 (age 79)
Quetta (Pakistan)
OccupationAcademic
Academic work
DisciplineLaw
Sub-disciplineAustralian law
Public law

Cheryl Anne Saunders AO FASSA FAAL FBA (born 28 August 1944) is Laureate Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne.[1]

Career

Saunders was the first woman to be appointed as a professor in the Law Faculty at University of Melbourne. She was also a founding director of its Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies.[2]

She has been awarded several honours in recognition of her work. In 1994 she was appointed an officer of the Order of Australia "for service to the law and to public administration" and in 2003 she received the Centenary Medal.[2] In 2005 the University of Cordoba conferred an honorary doctorate on Saunders.[1] She was elected to the Legion of Honour in France for her services to the Académie Internationale de Droit Constitutionnel in 2009.[2] Saunders is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia[3] and a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.[1] She was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in July 2018.[4] In 2022 she was awarded the Tang Prize in the category "Rule of Law".[5]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Laureate Professor Emeritus Cheryl Saunders AO". University of Melbourne. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  2. ^ a b c "Cheryl Anne Saunders". Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  3. ^ "Academy Fellow: Professor Cheryl Saunders AO, FASSA". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Archived from the original on 11 December 2019. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
  4. ^ "Record number of academics elected to British Academy". British Academy. 20 July 2018. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  5. ^ Tang Prize 2022
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