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Prof. Cheryl Anne Saunders            

 

 CURRICULUM VITAE


1. NAME:     Cheryl Anne SAUNDERS

2. DATE OF BIRTH:    28th August 1944

3. CITIZENSHIP:    Australian

4. COUNTRY OF BIRTH:   India

5. EDUCATIONAL & PROFESSIONAL
    QUALIFICATIONS:    B.A., LL.B., PhD. (Melb.)

6. AWARDS AND HONOURS:

  • Officer in the General Division, Order of Australia, for service to law and public administration (1994) 
  • Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (elected 1994)
  • Centenary Medal, 2003
  • Foundation Fellow, Australian Academy of Law, 2005
  • Doctorada Honoris Causa, National University of Cordoba, 2005


7. CAREER HISTORY:

7.1 Current academic positions, University of Melbourne
  
Personal Chair, Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne(1989 -) 

7.2 Other academic positions, 2006-2007

  • Visiting Professor, University of Copenhagen
  • Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science, University of Cambridge
  • Enseignante invitée, Université Pantheon Assas Paris II, France
  • Visiting Professor, Summer School, Institute of Federalism, Fribourg, Switzerland
  • Register of Academic Auditors, New Zealand
  • Honorary Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town, South Africa (from 2002)
  • External Examiner, University of Hong Kong, Constitutional Law and Administrative Law (from 2001)

7.3 Selected previous academic positions
 
University of Melbourne

Director, Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies (1988 -2004)
Associate Dean, Graduate Studies (1990-2004)
Co-Director, Juris Doctor (1999-2004)


Other university appointments

2005 George P. Smith II Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law, University of Indiana, Bloomington
2005 Visiting Professor, Summer School, Institute of Federalism, Fribourg, Switzerland
2002 Visiting Fellow, University of Auckland Law School
2002  Visiting Professor, Summer School, Institute of Federalism, Fribourg, Switzerland
1998-  Enseignante invitée, Université Pantheon Assas Paris II, France
1998 Visiting Lecturer, University of Cape Town, South Africa 
1996 Lecturer, Summer School, Institute of Federalism, Fribourg, Switzerland
1996 Distinguished Visitor, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong
1993 Group Leader, Salzburg Seminar Perspectives on Federalism
1989 Lansdowne Visitor, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
1987 Visiting Fellow, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
1984 Grantee, United States International Visitors Program.


7.4 Current editorial positions

Editor, Public Law Review (1990 -)
Board Member and Symposium Editor, International Journal of Constitutional Law (2001-)
Co-Chair, Editorial Board, Global Dialogue on Federalism in the 21st century; Practices, Perspectives and Prospects (2001-)
Editor, Constitutional Title, Laws of Australia (1992-) 
Member, Editorial Board, Publius (1992 -)
Member, Editorial Board, Australasian Parliamentary Review (2004-)
Membre, Conseil Scientifique, Traité International de Droit Constitutionnel (eds Dominique Chagnollaud et Michel Troper), Les Editions Dalloz (2004-)
Member, Scientific Council, Revista Catalana de Dret Public (2005-)
Membre, Conseil Scientifique, Jus Politicum (2007-) 


7.5 Other current professional positions 

President, International Association of Constitutional Law (2004-2007)
President, International Association of Centres for Federal Studies (2005-)
Theme Co-ordinator, Intergovernmental Relations, Fourth International Conference on Federalism, India, November 2007
Council Member, Australian Association of Constitutional Law (1998-) 
Member, Judicial Remuneration Tribunal of Victoria (2002-2005; reappointed to 2008)


7.6 Selected previous professional positions

First Vice-President, International Association of Constitutional Law (2000-2004)
First Vice-President, International Association of Centres for Federal Studies (1998-)
Deputy Chair, Constitutional Centenary Foundation (1991-2000)
International adviser, First International Conference on Federalism 1999 (Canada)
International adviser, Second International Conference on Federalism 2002 (Switzerland)
Member, expert panel on public information for an
Australian republic, 1999
Member, Walkley Advisory Board of Australia (1997-2000)
Member, Docklands Advisory Panel, City of Melbourne (1998-9)
Australian Editor, de Smith, Woolf and Jowell, Judicial Review of Administrative Action
President, Administrative Review Council of the
Commonwealth (1987-93)
Chair, Review Committee, Faculty of Law, the University of Adelaide, 2000
Member, Faculty of Law Review Committee, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand (1993)
Member, Faculty of Law Review Committee, Auckland University, New Zealand (1993)  
Member, Commonwealth Archives Council (1984-88)
Research Director, State Fiscal Powers Sub-Committee, Australian Constitution Convention (1983)
Secretary, Victorian Delegation to the Australian Constitutional Convention (1975-85)

7.7 Selected consultancies: international constitutional advising

2007: Iraq: Participant in multiparty dialogue on a federal judicial system
2006: Iraq: Participant in expert meetings on possible revisions to the Constitution (Unami, UNDP)
2005 Iraq: Participant in expert meeting on constitution-making process
2005 Bhutan: Desk review of Constitution (UNDP)
2003 Sri Lanka: Technical assistance in relation to constitutional reform (Ausaid)
2002 Burma: Advice on role of State Constitutions in the protection of nationality and minority rights (International IDEA)
2001 East Timor: Constitutional Advisor to Constituent Assembly of East Timor (Asia Foundation)
1999 Zimbabwe:  Assistance in connection with a new Constitution (ALRI)
1990s South Africa: Intermittent involvement with development of new Constitution and administrative law arrangements
1990s Fiji: Intermittent involvement in development of new Constitution and subsequent scrutiny (Constitutional Commission and Citizens Constitutional Forum)


8. TEACHING EXPERIENCE

8.1 Faculty of Law: Undergraduate

Compulsory and optional public law subjects, including:

  • Constitutional and Administrative Law
  • Advanced Constitutional Law
  • Comparative Constitutional Law
  • Company Law.

8.2 Faculty of Law: Graduate

Wide range of public and comparative public law subjects, including:

  • Current problems in Constitutional Law
  • Current problems in Administrative Law
  • Dealing with Government
  • Law of Intergovernmental Relations
  • Comparative Law
  • Federal Jurisdiction
  • Comparative Constitutional Law
  • Principles of Public and International Law
  • Principles of Public Law
  • Constitution-Making
  • Protecting Rights


8.3 The Melbourne JD

  • Legal Research and Method
  • Constitutional Law
  • Administrative Law
  • Legal Theory
  • Principles of Public Law

8.4 International

  • Comparative Constitutional Law (Copenhagen, Paris)
  • Comparative Public Law (Cambridge)
  • Comparative Federalism (Fribourg)
  • Protection of Human Rights in Common Law Countries (Paris)


9. CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Comparative federalism, including intergovernmental relations
  • Methodology of comparative constitutional law, including the significance of constitutional history and theory
  • Constitution making, design and change 
     

10. PUBLICATIONS

10.1 Books

   TIMOTHY L.H. MCORMACK AND CHERYL SAUNDERS (eds) Sir Ninian Stephen: A Tribute, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2007, (xvi, 285)
    INGOLF PERNICE, JULIANE KOKOTT, CHERYL SAUNDERS (eds) The Future of the European Judicial System Nomos Verlag 2006
   LEROY K AND SAUNDERS C (eds) Legislative, Executive and Judicial Governance in Federal Countries McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006
   SAUNDERS C AND LEROY K.(eds) The Rule of Law, The Federation Press, 2003 xiii+197, ISBN 1 86287 459 X
    FRENCH R., LINDELL G, SAUNDERS C (eds) Reflections on the Australian Constitution, Federation Press, 2003, ISBN 1 86287 462 X
   SAUNDERS, C. It's Your Constitution: Governing Australia Today, Federation Press (1998) 1-157, second edition forthcoming, 2003
 .  SAUNDERS, C The Annotated Constitution, Constitutional Centenary Foundation, 1997, ISBN 0 9586908 1 2, vii + 135
   SAUNDERS, C and HASSALL G. (eds) The People's Representatives, Allen and Unwin, 1997, 265 pp
   SAUNDERS, C (ed) Courts of Final Jurisdiction, Federation Press, 1996, xviii + 273
   SAUNDERS, C. & HASSALL G. (eds), Asia-Pacific Constitutional Yearbook (successive years, 1993-1997) Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies
 SAUNDERS, C. & MULLINS A. (eds), Economic Union in Federal Systems, Federation Press, Sydney: xviii. + 283 (1994)
 HASSALL G and SAUNDERS, C. (eds) - The Powers and Functions of Executive Government: Studies from the Asia-Pacific Region, Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies: Melbourne (1994)
 CURNOW, G., and SAUNDERS, C. (eds) - Quangos, The Australian Experience, Hale and Iremonger, Sydney: vii + 180 pp. (1983)
 HOWARD, C., and SAUNDERS, C. - Cases and Materials on Constitutional Law, Law Book Company, Melbourne: 1xiii + 420 pp. (1979).


10.2 Chapters in Books

   SAUNDERS C, "Comparing Federal Constitutions" in Rainer Grote and others, Die Ordnung der Freiheit, Festschrift fur Christian Starck zum siebzigsten Geburtstag,  Mohr Siebeck, 2007, 937-952, IABN 978-3-16-149166-5
   SAUNDERS C, "Comparative Constitutional Law in the Courts: Is there a Problem?" in  Jane Holder and Colm O'Cinneide (eds) Current Legal Problems  2006,  Vol 59, Oxford University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-921211-8, 91-128 
   SAUNDERS C, "Australia" in Leroy K and Saunders C Legislative, Executive and Judicial Governance in Federal Countries McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006
   SAUNDERS C, "Synthesis" in Leroy K and Saunders C Legislative, Executive and Judicial Governance in Federal Countries McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006
SAUNDERS C "The Constitutional Centenary Foundation", in Timothy L.H. McCormack and Cheryl Saunders (eds) Sir Ninian Stephen: A Tribute, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2007, 57-79
SAUNDERS, C, "Budgetary Federalism: Balance of Interests and Contradictions" in International Academy of Comparative law, Convergence of Legal Systems in the 21st Century, Bruyland, Bruxelles, 2006, 1473-1501, ISBN 2-8027-2207-7
SAUNDERS C "Constitutional Rights and the Common Law" in Andras Sajo and Renata Uitz (eds) The Constitution in Private Relations, Eleven International Publishing, 2005, 183-216, ISBN 90-77596-13-5
SAUNDERS C ""Making Constitutions: Including Women" in Radhika Coomaraswamy and Dilrukshi Fonseka Peace Work, Women Unlimited 2004, ISBN: 81-88965-08-1, 152-184
   SAUNDERS C " The Australian Federal Constitution" in John Kincaid and G. Alan Tarr (eds) Constitutional Origins, Structure and Change in Federal Countries 13-47 McGill-Queen's University Press 2005, ISBN 0-7735-2916-0.
   SAUNDERS C "A Case Study in Common Law Constitutionalism" in Stefan Hammer, Alexander Somek, Manfred Steltzer and Barbara Weichelsbaum (eds) Demokratie und Sozialer Rechtsstaat in Europa 2004, Facultas Verlags-und Buchhandels AG ISBN 3-85114-849-5
   SAUNDERS C, "Constitutional Structure and Australian Federalism" in Peter Cane (ed) Centenary Essays for the High Court of Australia Butterworths 2004, ISBN 0 409 32162 1, 174-196
   SAUNDERS C, "Asia, Oceania and Constitutionalism" in Akira Osuka (ed) Perspectives of Constitutionalism in Asia" Shinzansha International, 2003, ISBN4-7972-3133-5, 405-424
   SAUNDERS C, LE ROY K, "Perspectives on the Rule of Law" in Saunders C and LeRoy K (eds) The Rule of Law, The Federation Press, 2003 xiii+197, 1-20, ISBN 1 86287 459 X
SAUNDERS, C "Ways and Means of Constitutional Reform" in Clement Macintyre and John Williams (eds) Peace, Order and Good Government,10-21, Wakefield Press, 2003, ISBN 1 86254 617 7
SAUNDERS, C  " The Australian Republic: Act 1" in F. Leslie Seidle and David C Docherty (eds) Reforming Parliamentary Democracy McGill University Press, 2003, 56-82 ISBN 0-7735-2507-6
SAUNDERS C, "Future prospects for the Australian Constitution" in French, Lindell and Saunders (eds) Reflections on the Australian Constitution Federation Press, 2003, 212-235.
SAUNDERS C, "It seems...to be a leading case" in Zoller E (ed) Marbury v Madison 1803-2003, A French-American Dialogue, Dalloz 2003, 97-116 ISBN 2247053289
SAUNDERS C, "The Uniform Income Tax Cases" in Lee HP and Winterton G (eds) Australian Constitutional Landmarks Cambridge University Press, 2003, 62-84 ISBN 0 521 83158 X
SAUNDERS C, "Budgetary Federalism: Balancing Federalism and Representative Government" in Peter Hanni (ed) Mensch und Staat: Festschrift for Thomas Fleiner, Universitatsverlag Freiburg Schweiz ISBN 3-7278-1434-9, 175-199
SAUNDERS, C, "Building Federal State co-operation" in Ian Marsh (ed) Australia's Choices: Options for a Prosperous and Fair Society, UNSW Press, 2003, 225-238, ISBN 0 86840 764 X
SAUNDERS C, "Protecting Rights in Common Law Constitutional Systems: A Framework for Comparative Study" in David Carter and Matthew Palmer (eds) Roles and Perspectives in the Law: Essays in Honour of Sir Ivor Richardson Victoria University Press 2002, 83-112; to be published again in revised form as "Constitutional Protection of Rights in Common Law Systems" in a Festschrift for Georges Kassimatis, Greece
SAUNDERS, C "Insights from the Experience of the Constitutional Centenary Foundation for a Future Republican Movement" in John Warhurst and Malcolm Mackerras (eds) Constitutional Politics (2002) 201-215
SAUNDERS, C  "The Parliament as Partner: A Century of Constitutional Review" in G. Lindell and R. Bennett (eds) Parliament, The Vision in Hindsight" Federation Press, 2001, 454-485
SAUNDERS, C "A Constitutional Culture in Transition" in Miroslaw Wyrzykowski (ed) Constitutional Cultures, 37-54 Institute of Public Affairs, Warsaw (2000) ISBN 83-86917-93-8
SAUNDERS C,  "Dividing Power in a Federation in an Age of Globalisation" in Tom Round and Charles Sampford (eds) Beyond the Republic: Meeting the Global Challenges to Constitutionalism, Federation Press, 2001, ISBN 1862873771
SAUNDERS C., "New Forms of Regulation: A challenge to Democratic Accountability and the Rule of Law?" in Akira Osuka (ed) Comparative Studies on Asian-Oceanian Legal Systems, (2001)
SAUNDERS, C., "Human Rights and the Nation State" in Peter Haberle, Jorg Paul Muller, Menschenrechte und Burgerrechte in einer vielgestaltigen Welt, Helbing & Lichtenhahn, (2000) 135-160
 SAUNDERS, C., "The Implications of Federalism for Indigenous Australians", in Yash Ghai (ed), Autonomy and Ethnicity: Negotiating Competing Claims in Multi-Ethnic States, Cambridge University Press, 2000, 266-286
 SAUNDERS, C. "La Separation des Pouvoirs: Montesquieu en Australie" in Droit Constitutionnel Melanges en l'honneur de Patrice Gelard, rassemblees et coordonnees par Patrick Fraisseix, Montchrestien,  (1999) 465-471. ISBN 2-7076-1173-5
SAUNDERS, C. "Separation of Powers" in Brian Opeskin and Fiona Wheeler (eds) The Australian Federal Judicial System, Melbourne University Press, 2000, 3-36
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Changes in the Australian Constitution by 2020" in Craig Emerson and Fleur Kingham (eds) 2020 Visions:  Australia's Future, 32-44
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Thinking about Parliament" in Alan Simpson (ed) Constitutional Implications of MMP, 27-37, also "Concluding Remarks" 254-259, Victoria University of Wellington (1998)
 SAUNDERS, C. - "The Role and Importance of State Constitutions" in Rick Gray (ed), Constitutional Foundations, North Australia Research Unit (1998), 10-22
 SAUNDERS, C. - "The Constitutional Preamble" in Brij V. Lal and Tomasi R. Vakatora, Fiji and the World:  The Research Papers of the Fiji Constitution Review Commission, 260-268
 SAUNDERS, C. - "The Constitutional Framework and the Fiscal Structure of the Federation" in Fletcher (ed) Federalism in the Northern Territory, North Australian Research Unit (1997), 11-22
 SAUNDERS, C. - "The Preamble of the Future European Constitution, or the Foundations of Sovereignty" in T. Fleiner and N. Schmitt (eds) Towards a European Constitution, Institut du Federalisme, Fribourg, Switzerland (1996), 59-71
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Making and Changing the Australian Constitution" in B. de Villiers and J. Sindane (eds) Managing Constitutional Change, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa (1996) 47-68
 SAUNDERS, C. - "The Constitutional Division of Powers with Respect to the Environment in Australia" in K. Holland, R.L. Morton and Brian Galligan (eds), Federalism and the Environment, Environmental Policymaking in Australia, Canada and the United States, Greenwood Press (1996), 55-76
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Women in a Convention in the 1990s" in H. Irving (ed), A Woman's Constitution?  Hale and Iremonger (1996), 149-160
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Intergovernmental Relations:  National and Supranational" in Carroll and Painter (eds), Microeconomic Reform and Federalism, Federalism Research Centre (1995), 52-62
 SAUNDERS, C. - "The Institution of Parliament in Australia" in Pizzorusso (ed), Developing Trends of Parliamentarism, Kluwer Law International (1995), 53-70
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Democracy:  Representation and Participation" in P. Finn (ed), Essays on Law and Government, Law Book Co. (1995), 51-74
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Evolution and Adaptation of the British Constitutional System" in N. Johnson (ed), Constitutional Policy and Change in Europe, Oxford University Press (1995), 67-94
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Constitutional Arrangements of Federal Systems", in J. Hesse (ed), Federalising Europe? Oxford University Press (1995)
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Concepts of Equality in the Australian Constitution" in Lindell (ed) Future Directions in Australian Constitutional Law, Federation Press, Sydney: 209-231 (1994)
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Australian Economic Union", A. Mullins and C. Saunders (eds), Economic Union in Federal Systems, Federation Press, Sydney: 1-25 (1994)
 SAUNDERS, C. - "The Australian Head of State - Some Issues", G Hassall and C. Saunders (eds), The Powers and Functions of Executive Government: Studies from the Asia-Pacific Region, Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, Carlton: 22-29 (1994)
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Self-Determination and Constitutional Change", C. Fletcher (ed), Aboriginal Self-Determination in Australia, Aboriginal Studies Press: 65-70 (1994)
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Environmental Policymaking: the Constitutional Division of Powers", Holland, Morton and Galligan (eds), Federalism and the Environment, Environmental Policymaking in Australia, Canada, Germany and the United States, Greenwood Publishing Group (1994)
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Appeal or Review: The Experience of Administrative Appeals in Australia" in Administrative Law Reform, Juta and Co., Cape Town: 88-104 (1993) (also published in (1993) Acta Juridica 88)
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Vertical Fiscal Imbalance - Constitutional Origins", Collins (ed), Vertical Fiscal Imbalance, Australian Tax Foundation: 55-64 (1993)
 SAUNDERS, C. - "A Republican Model: Would More be better than Less?"  J. Beaumont (ed), Where to Now? Australia's Identity in the Nineties, Federation Press, Sydney: 86-96 (1993)
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Fiscal Federalism - A General and Unholy Scramble", G. Craven (ed), Australian Federalism: Towards the Second Century, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne: 101-130 (1992)
 SAUNDERS, C. -  "Constitutional and Legal Aspects of Intergovernmental Relations in Australia", Galligan, Hughes and Walsh (eds), Intergovernmental Relations and Public Policy, Allen and Unwin: 39-56 (1991)
 SAUNDERS, C. - "The Constitutional Framework: Hybrid, Derivative but eventually Australian", Power (ed), Public Administration in Australia: A Watershed, Hale and Iremonger, Sydney: 106-130 (1990)
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Accountability and Access in Inter-government Affairs: A Legal Perspective", Wood, Williams and Sharman (eds), Governing Federations, Hale and Iremonger, Sydney: 123-139 (1989)
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Governments, Legislatures and Courts:  Striking a Balance", Ellinghaus, Bradbrook and Duggan (eds), The Emergence of Australian Law, Butterworths: 296-310 (1989)
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Commonwealth Power over Grants" in Constitutional Reform and Fiscal Federalism, Occasional Paper No. 42, Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations, A.N.U. Canberra: 35-49
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Financial Autonomy (Australia)", in Federalism and Decentralisation, T. Fleiner-Gerster (ed), Editions Universitaires, Fribourg, Suisse (1987) 369-379
 SAUNDERS, C. - "The Hardest Nut to Crack" in The Convention Debates 1891-1898:  Commentaries, Indices and Guide, G. Craven (ed), Legal Books, Sydney: 149-172 (1987)
 SAUNDERS, C. - "The Federal System", in Australian State Politics, B. Galligan (ed), Longman Cheshire, Melbourne: 158-176 (1986)
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Constitutional Limits on State Taxation" in Tax Reform and the States, R. Mathews (ed), Anutech, Canberra:  15-36 (1985) 
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Australia's Federal System and the Division of Powers", in Federalism and Resource Development, P. Drysdale and H. Shibata (eds), Allen and Unwin, Sydney:  25-042 (1985)
 SAUNDERS, C. - "The Judicature and the Constitution", in Australian Federalism 1981, R. Mathews (ed), Anutech, Canberra:  46-70 (1985)
 SAUNDERS, C. - "The concept of non-justiciability in Australian Constitutional Law", in Essays in Legal Theory, D. J. Galligan (ed), Melbourne University Press, Melbourne:  29-50 (1984)
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Constitutional Problems and Intergovernmental Solutions", in Industrial Confrontation, K. Aldred (ed), Allen and Unwin, Sydney:  59-72, (1984)
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Parliamentary Appropriation" in Current Constitutional Problems in Australia, C. Saunders et al (eds),  Australian National University Press, Canberra:  1-36 (1982)
 SAUNDERS, C. - "The Judicature and the Constitution", in Australian Federalism 1980, R. Mathews (ed), Australian National University Press, Canberra:  55-76 (1981)
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Stages in the Development of Federal Financial Relations in Australia" in Readings in Economics, R. Grant (ed), Hargreen Publishing Co., Melbourne:  354-362 (1981)
 SAUNDERS, C. - "The Judicature and the Constitution", in Australian Federalism 1979, R. Mathews (ed), Australian National University Press, Canberra:  41-61 (1980)
 SAUNDERS, C. - "The Constitution", in Australian Federalism 1978, R. Mathews (ed), Australian National University Press, Canberra:  29-41 (1979)
 HOWARD, C., and SAUNDERS, C. - "Blocking of the Budget and Dismissal of the Government", in Labor and the Constitution 1972-75, G. Evans (ed), Heinemann, Melbourne:  251-301 (1977).


10.3 Articles in Refereed Journals

SAUNDERS C, "Democracy, Transparency, and the Apparent Demise of the Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe" (2006) 8 Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies, 9-36
SAUNDERS C, "Apples, Oranges, and Comparative Administrative Law", 2006 Acta Juridica, 423-449
SAUNDERS C, "The Interesting Times of Louis Favoreu" International Journal of Constitutional Law,  2007 5: 1-16
SAUNDERS C "The use and misuse of comparative constitutional law" (2006) 13 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 37-76
SAUNDERS C "Intergovernmental agreements and the executive power" Public Law Review (2005) 16 Public Law Review 294
SAUNDERS C "Protecting Rights in the Australian Federation" (2004) 25 Adelaide Law Review 177-210
 SAUNDERS C and YAM Kevin "Government regulation by contract: Implications for the Rule of Law" (2004) Public Law Review 51-70  
SAUNDERS, C. "Collaborative Federalism" (2002) 61 Australian Journal of Public Administration" 69-77
SAUNDERS, C. "A New Direction for Intergovernmental Arrangements" (2001) 12 Public Law Review 274-287
SAUNDERS, C. "Australian State Constitutions" (2000) 31 Rutgers Law Journal 999-1018
SAUNDERS, C. "Administrative Law and Relations between Governments: Australia and Europe Compared" (2000) 28 Federal Law Review 263-290
 SAUNDERS, C., "In the Shadow of Wakim" 17(1999) Companies and Securities Law Journal 507-517
 SAUNDERS, C. "Legacies of Luck" Australia's Constitution and National Identity in the 1990s" in (1999) 15 South African Journal on Human Rights 328-350 
 SAUNDERS C, "Religion and Constitutional Rights", (1999) 21 Cardozo Law Review 1295-1302  SAUNDERS, C. - "Sir Daryl Dawson:  An Oration" (1998) 20 Adelaide Law Review, 1-10
 SAUNDERS, C. - "How Important was the Convention?" (1998) 21 University of New South Wales Law Journal, 268-274
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Constitutional Arrangements of Federal Systems" (1995) 25 Publius, 1-19
 SAUNDERS C. - "Articles of Faith or Lucky Breaks?" (1995) Sydney Law Review 148-176
 SAUNDERS, C. - "The Australian Experience with Constitutional Review" in Australian Quarterly vol 66(3) 49-66
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Appeal or Review: the Experience of Administrative Appeals in Australia" (1993) Acta Juridica 83-99
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Towards the Centenary of Australian Federation", (1992) 20 Melanesian Law Journal 77-91
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Constitutional Reform by 2001", Australian Quarterly 64 (3), Spring 92: 241-253
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Rethinking the Parliamentary System: Contributions from the Australian Debate", (1991) XXIX Alberta Law Review 336-350
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Government Borrowing in Australia", (1989) 17 Melbourne University Law Review, 187 - 218.  Also published in shorter form in Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 20, No. 4 (1990) 35-52
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Towards a Theory for Section 96:  Part II" (1988) 16 Melbourne University Law Review 699-724
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Towards a Theory for Section 96:  Part 1", (1987) 16 Melbourne University Law Review 1-31.  Reprinted as  "The Strange Case of Section 96" in Papers on Federalism 11, Intergovernmental Relations in Victoria Program, University of Melbourne (1987)  
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Influences of Federalism on Constitutional Interpretation in Australia", (1987) 20 University of California Davis Law Review, 353-380.  Reprinted as Papers on Federalism 7, Intergovernmental Relations in Victoria Program (1986) 
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Limiti Costituzionali alla Tassazione Statale in Australia", (1986) 3 Diritto e Societa 543-573
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Owen Dixon:  Evidence to the Royal Commission on the Constitution, 1927-29", (1986) 15 Melbourne University Law Review, 553-574
 SAUNDERS, C. - "The National Implied Power and Implied Restrictions on Commonwealth Power", (1984) 14 Federal Law Review 267-275
 SAUNDERS, C. and WILTSHIRE K. - "Fraser's New Federalism 1975-1980:  An Evaluation", (1980) 26 Australian Journal of Politics and History, 355-371
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Maritime Crime", (1979) 12 Melbourne University Law Review 158-175
 SAUNDERS, C. - "The Development of the Commonwealth Spending Power", (1978) 11 Melbourne University Law Review 369-407
 SAUNDERS, C. - "The Interchange of Powers Proposal, Part I", (1978) 52 Australian Law Journal 187-197; Part II (1978) 52 Australian Law Journal 254-263.


10.4 Other articles and notes

SAUNDERS C, "Separation of Powers and the Judicial Branch" in (2006) 11 Judicial Review 337-347
   SAUNDERS C, "Constitutional conventions", "Entrenchment of constitutions and legislation", "Interpreting constitutions" in Peter Cane and Joanne Conaghan (eds) The New Oxford Companion to Law OUP, (forthcoming, 2008)
   SAUNDERS C, "Federalism, Constitutional Democracy and Challenges for Good Governance", a paper published by the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 2005, ISBN 09-2342640
   SAUNDERS C, A review of C Schacht, "Borrowing Constitutional Designs" (2007) Australian Journal of Political Science
   SAUNDERS C, "A Commonwealth Dialogue on Human Rights" forthcoming in the Proceedings of the Commonwealth Law Conference 2005
   SAUNDERS C, "Constitutional Recognition of Local Government in Australia" in Nico Steytler (ed) The place and role of Local Government in Federal Systems Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, 2005, ISBN 0-9584936-8-5, 47-64
   SAUNDERS C, "Comparative Method and Constitutional Law" in Sung, Nak-in (ed) Constitutionalism and Constitutional Adjudication in Asia, Korea Legislation Research Institute, 2005, 575-596
   SAUNDERS C, "Disputes over Social and Economic Rights: Law, Politics, Money" in Proceedings of the X Yerevan International Conference, 2005, 165-175
   SAUNDERS C, "Common Sense" in (2005) 17 The Sydney Papers 97-104
   SAUNDERS C (with Raoul Blindenbacher) "A Global Dialogue on Federalism: Conceptual Framework" in John Kincaid and G. Alan Tarr (eds) Constitutional Origins, Structure and Change in Federal Countries 3-7 McGill-Queen's University Press 2005, ISBN 0-7735-2916-0.
 SAUNDERS C "Interpreting the Constitution" (2004) 15 Public Law Review 289-296
SAUNDERS C, "Rights, Federalism and the Australian States" in Festschrift for Pavle Nicolic, 2004, Serbia-Montenegro, 489-500, ISBN 86-905461-0-3
SAUNDERS C, "Dividing Powers in the Contemporary World" in Anuario Portugues de Direito Constitucional Vol 1, 2001, 125-138, Coimbra Editora, ISBN 972-32-1223-4
SAUNDERS C, "Australian Federalism, State Constitutions and the Protection of Minority Rights" in International IDEA The Role of State Constitutions in Protecting Minority Rights under Federalism: Dialogues in Support of a Democratic Transition in Burma, 2003, 29-42
SAUNDERS C, "The Peculiarly Australian Preoccupation with Removal of a Head of State" (2002) 4 Notre Dame Law Review,171-179.
 SAUNDERS C, "Der australische Bundesstaat" in Jahrbuch des Foderalismus 2002, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Baden Baden 2002, 439-449
 SAUNDERS C, "Federalism, Decentralisation and Conflict Management in Multicultural Societies"  (with Thomas Fleiner, Walter Kalin and Wolf Linder), in Conference Reader, International Conference on Federalism 2002, Federalism in A Changing World – Learning from Each Other, 227-258
SAUNDERS C "Courting Danger" (2002) Eureka Street, Vol.12 no.8 at 28-30
SAUNDERS C "Australia" in Ann Griffiths (ed) Handbook of Federal Countries 2002, McGill University Press, 2002, 31-39
SAUNDERS C  "Intergovernmental Relations in Australia" in J.Peter Meekison (ed) Intergovernmental Relations in Federal Countries, Forum of Federations, 2002, 7-23 with Roger Wilkins)
SAUNDERS C., "A Federation without Federalism" Elaine Thompson (ed) Keeping the Show Together. The Federalism Forums 2001, New South Wales Centenary of Federation Committee, January 2002, ISBN 0-9580014-1-3
SAUNDERS C, "Australian Federalism" in (2001) 78 Reform 5-10
SAUNDERS C., "Australian Federalism and the Role of the Governor-General" (2000) 28 International Journal of Legal Information 407-423
SAUNDERS C., "Applications of Republican Liberty" (2000) 25 Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy 137-142
SAUNDERS C., "Federal Fiscal Reform and the GST" (2000) 11 Public Law Review 99-105
SAUNDERS C., "The Head of State - The Australian Experience: Lessons, Pointers and Pitfalls" in Colin James (ed) Building the Constitution, Institute of Policy Studies, Wellington, 2000, 276-286; also "Involving the People" 58-64
SAUNDERS C., "Australian Experiments in Administrative Law"  (1997-2000) Law and Justice 53-65
SAUNDERS, C. "Preface to the English Edition" What are Human Rights?" The Federation Press, 1999, xi-xiv
SAUNDERS C. "National Control over Sub national Constitutions and Processes for Resolving Competency Disputes" in Seminar Report, Sub national Constitutional Governance, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (1999) 23-36
SAUNDERS, C.,  "The Republican Model" (1999) 10 Public Law Review, 64-66
SAUNDERS, C., "The Preamble Quest" (1999) 74 Reform 11-13
SAUNDERS, C., "New Forms of Regulation": a Challenge to Democratic Accountability and the Rule of Law?" in Institute of Comparative Law (ed) (1998-99) 1 Waseda Proceedings of Comparative Law 137-152
 SAUNDERS, C. - "The Australian Constitution and a National Document of Reconciliation", Walking Together (1998), 6-7
 SAUNDERS, C. -  Book Review, "Fragile Bastion - Judicial Independence in the 1990s and Beyond",  (1997) 71 Australian Law Journal Reports 639-641
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Past, Present and Future" in Michael Coper and George Williams, Power, Parliament and the People, Federation Press (1997), 217-220
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Constitutions: Do They Matter?" [1996-97] Lawasia 1-8
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Local Government's Place in the Australian Federal System" in Peter Johnstone and Rosemary Kiss (eds), Governing Local Communities - The Future Begins, Centre for Public Policy, The University of Melbourne (1996), 56-61
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Challenges for Citizenship" in 22 Unicorn (1996), 30-34
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Is the Constitution Out of Date?" in Lovell et al (eds), The Australian Political System, Longman (1995), 32-37
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Changes in the Australian Constitution by 2020", Res Ipsa, Journal of the University of Queensland Law Society (1994), 102-107
 SAUNDERS, C. - "The Content of Constitutions" Gray, Lea and Roberts (eds), Constitutional Change in the 1990s, Northern Territory Legislative Assembly Sessional Committee on Constitutional Development, (1994)
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Developing Trends of Parliamentarism - Australia", Tay and Leung (eds), Australian Law and Legal Thinking in the 1990s, A collection of Australian Reports to the XIV International Congress of Comparative Law, Athens, 31 July-6 August 1994, 377-387
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Constitutional Change: Then and Now", The Sydney Papers, Winter 1994, Vol 6, No. 3, 111-119
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Designing the Republican Model" Legislative Studies  (1994), Vol.8 No.2, 38-41
 SAUNDERS, C.- "An Australian Republic: Minimalist or Otherwise" in Australian Corporate Lawyer, Vol.3, No.2, 26-31
 SAUNDERS, C - "Australie", Saint-Ouen (ed), Dictionnaire International Du Federalisme, Bruylant, Brussels, (1994),  293-299
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Fiscal Equalisation in Australia", ed. Roux, Regional Fiscal Equalisation in a Future South Africa, Institute of Development Law, University of Cape Town (1993)
 SAUNDERS, C. - Occasional articles - Constitutional Centenary, newsletter of the Constitutional Centenary Foundation
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Administrative Law - Lessons and Insights from other Common Law Countries", in  Admin Review (1991), 2-7 
 SAUNDERS, C. - "In Search of a System of Migration Review", Goodman, O'Hearn and Wallace-Crabbe (eds), Multicultural Australia: The Challenges of Change, Scribe Publications, (1991). 34-148
 SAUNDERS, C. - "The Role and Independence of Statutory Office-Holders: The Particular Case of Advisory Bodies", in Department of the Senate, Unchaining the Watch-Dogs, Papers on Parliament, No. 7, March 1990
 SAUNDERS, C. - Review of Mahendra P. Singh, Comparative Constitutional Law,  (1990) 17 Melbourne University Law Review 533-4
 SAUNDERS, C. - "The Content of State Constitutions", a paper delivered to an International Conference on the Organisation of States and Democracy, published in Portuguese translation in Plenario, the magazine of the State Legislative Assembly, Bahia, Brazil
 SAUNDERS, C. - Book Review, Galligan, Politics of the High Court, Publius, vol 18, No. 4 (Fall, 1988) 133-135
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Federal-State Financial Relations in the Bicentennial", Crawford and Odgers (eds), Change the Constitution? Committee for Postgraduate Studies in the Department of Law, Sydney: 28-30 (1988)
 SAUNDERS, C. and CROMMELIN, M. - Review of the Constitutionality of Decisions, in Law and Australian Legal Thinking in the 1980s.  A Collection of the Australian Contributions to the 12th International Congress of Comparative law, prepared by Alice E.S. Tay, 497-513
 SAUNDERS, C. - Expiry of the Financial Agreement, Papers on Federalism 4, Reprint Series 64, Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations, Australian National University, (1985) 20pp
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Impact of Intergovernmental Arrangements on Parliament", (1984) 9 Legislative Studies Newsletter 22-49.  Reprinted in Papers on Federalism 1, Intergovernmental Relations in Victoria Program, University of Melbourne
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Australian Constitutional Convention", 13 Melbourne University Law Review  (1982) 628-630
 SAUNDERS, C. - "The Fourth Plenary Session of the Australian Constitutional Convention, Perth, 26-28 July, 1978", 52 Australian Law Journal  (1978) 596-600
 SAUNDERS, C. - "The Senate and Supply", 52 Australian Law Journal (1978) 117-119
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Changing the Constitution:  The Three Referendum Amendments of 1977", 51 Australian Law Journal, (1977) 508-510
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Third Plenary Session of Australian Constitutional Convention, Hobart, 27-29 October", 50 Australian Law Journal (1976) 611-612
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Second Plenary Session of Australian Constitutional Convention, Melbourne, 24-26 September",) 49 Australian Law Journal (1975) 602-604

 

10.5 Reports and Public Submissions

 SAUNDERS, C., "Constitution, Democracy and the Future" in Economic Planning Advisory Commission, Ambitions for our Future: Australian Views, October 1994, 61-66
 SAUNDERS, C. - Report under section 10(4), Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Heritage Protection Act 1984 (Cth) on significant Aboriginal areas in the vicinity of Goolwa and Hindmarsh (Kumarangk) Island, South Australia, prepared for the Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs (1994)
 SAUNDERS, C. - "Constitutional Change and Adaptation", Ed K. Wiltshire, Governance and Economic Efficiency, Committee for the Economic Development of Australia, (1994) 37-53
 SAUNDERS, C. and CASS, D. - Constitutional Options for Uniform Legislation, Australian Uniform Building Regulations Co-ordinating Council, (1991) 91 pp.
 SAUNDERS C, Victorian Year Book:  Annual contribution on constitutional developments and intergovernmental relations 1980-85
 SAUNDERS, C. - Accountability for Transfers of Funds between Levels of Government:  Impressions of Recent Developments in the United States. Forty-First Report of the Public Accounts Committee on the 1985 Biennial Conference of Public Accounts Committees, Government Printer, South Australia: 153-163 (1986).  Reprinted in Else-Mitchell and Saunders, Accountability in Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers, Occasional Paper No. 38, Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations, Canberra 1986
 SAUNDERS, C. - Referendum procedures, in Constitutional Amendment Sub-Committee, Report to the Standing Committee of the Australian Constitutional Convention, Queensland Government Printer, Brisbane, (1984) 111-117
 SAUNDERS, C. - 1984 Constitutional Referendum, Information Paper No. 14, prepared for the Committee for the Economic Development of Australia, (1984).) 22 pp
 Report of the Fiscal Powers Sub-Committee to the Standing Committee of the Australian Constitutional Convention, Queensland Government Printer, Brisbane, 75pp. (1984) (prepared by C. Saunders as Research Director of the Sub-Committee)
 SAUNDERS, C. - Some Legal Aspects of the Albury-Wodonga (Victoria) Corporation, a report prepared for the Public Bodies Review Committee of the Victorian Parliament, Victorian Parliament, Victorian Government Printer, Melbourne, (1983) 1-122
 Victoria's Revenue Raising Powers and Federal-State Taxation Relationships, in Report of Committee of Enquiry into Revenue Raising in Victoria, Victorian Government Printer, Melbourne, 22-112 (1983) (preparation of draft by Saunders C., as Consultant to Committee, acknowledged in preface)
 SAUNDERS, C. - Submission to the Royal Commission into the Constitution Act 1934 (Tas.), Transcript of Proceedings, 912-918
 SAUNDERS, C. - General Competence Power of Local Government, in Advisory Council for Intergovernmental Relations, Legal Limits to Local Government External Approvals and General Competence Power, Hobart, (1982) 110-136
 SAUNDERS, C. - Constitutional Status of Local Government, in Advisory Council for Intergovernmental Relations, Constitutional Recognition of Local Government, Hobart, (1980) 26-41
 SAUNDERS, C. and SMITH, E. - Paper prepared for Standing Committee D of the Australian Constitutional Convention Identifying the Conventions Associated with the Commonwealth Constitution, Victorian Government Printer, Melbourne, (1980) 1-47
 SAUNDERS, C. - An Agenda Item H.33:  Democratic Elections, in Standing Committee D, Third Report to Executive Committee, 1978, at 14-20
 Advisory Opinions of the High Court, in Judicature Committee, Report to Standing Committee D, 1977, at 18-26 (prepared by C. Saunders as Consultant to Committee)
 Single System of Courts for Australia, in Judicature Committee, Report to Standing Committee D, 1977, at 62-73 (prepared by C. Saunders as consultant to Committee).

 

10.6 Constitutional Centenary Foundation materials, 1992-2000

Regular contributions to the Foundation's newsletters, Constitutional Centenary and Roundtable: other documents including:

1999 Framework document and background paper The Republic and the States, prepared for the Queensland Constitutional Convention
1999 Options for a Treaty for Reconciliation, prepared for the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, pursuant to its request to the Foundation
1999 Final Report, Local Constitutional Convention Program
1999 Preamble Quest, background papers and final report
1999 Analysis of draft Constitution Alteration (Establishment of Republic) 1999
1998 Discussion papers, covering five broad constitutional themes for the Local Constitutional Convention Program
1997/8 Framework documents for the centenary conventions held in Adelaide and Sydney, 1997 and 1998
1996 Framework and working documents for the Bathurst Centenary Convention 1996
1993 If we wanted a Convention, how should we do it? a discussion paper on the history and potential uses of conventions in Australia, with a review of some of the issues that would need consideration
1993 Representing the People: The Role of Parliament in Australian Democracy, 50 pp. Revised edition (1994)
1993 Heads of State: A Comparative Perspective (ed and introduction), (58 pp).

(updated on 26/07/2007)


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