Cheryl Saunders
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| Born | 28 August 1944 (Pakistan) |
| Occupation | Academic |
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| Discipline | Law |
| Sub-discipline | Australian law Public law |
Cheryl Anne Saunders 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
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
- ^ a b c "Laureate Professor Emeritus Cheryl Saunders AO". University of Melbourne. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
- ^ a b c "Cheryl Anne Saunders". Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Record number of academics elected to British Academy". British Academy. 20 July 2018. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
- ^ Tang Prize 2022
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