Helena Ann Kennedy,Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws,,is a Scottish barrister,broadcaster,and Labour member of the House of Lords. She was Principal of Mansfield College,Oxford,from 2011 to 2018. A Bencher of Gray's Inn,an Honorary Writer to the Signet and the recipient of 42 Honorary Degrees from many universities including those of Glasgow and Edinburgh in recognition of work on women and the law and on widening participation in higher education. She is President of Justice,the law reform think tank and currently is director of the International Bar Association's Institute of Human Rights.
Gareth John Evans AC,KC,is an Australian politician,international policymaker,academic,and barrister. He represented the Labor Party in the Senate and House of Representatives from 1978 to 1999,serving as a Cabinet Minister in the Hawke and Keating governments from 1983 to 1996 as Attorney-General,Minister for Resources and Energy,Minister for Transport and Communications and most prominently,from 1988 to 1996,as Minister for Foreign Affairs. He was Leader of the Government in the Senate from 1993 to 1996,Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 1996 to 1998,and remains one of the two longest-serving federal Cabinet Ministers in Labor Party history.
Ormond College is one of the largest residential colleges of the University of Melbourne located in the city of Melbourne,Victoria,Australia. It is home to around 350 undergraduates,90 graduates and 35 professorial and academic residents.
Barry Owen Jones,,is an Australian polymath,writer,teacher,lawyer,social activist,quiz champion and former politician. He campaigned against the death penalty throughout the 1960s,particularly against the execution of Ronald Ryan. He is on the National Trust's list of Australian Living Treasures.
John Kinley Dewar is an Australian academic. He was the vice-chancellor of La Trobe University from 2012 to 2024.
Gregory Joseph Craven is an Australian academic,who was the vice-chancellor and president of the Australian Catholic University from January 2008 to January 2021. On 8 April 2020,the ACU chancellor,John Fahey,announced Craven's planned retirement in an email to staff and students,which was to become effective in January 2021. His successor was named as Zlatko Skrbis,who took up his appointment as ACU's fourth Vice Chancellor on 11 January 2021.
Glyn Conrad Davis is an Australian academic and public servant,who serves as the Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. He was appointed by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on 30 May 2022,and commenced on 6 June 2022.
Margaret Elaine Gardner is an Australian academic,economist and university executive serving as the 30th and current governor of Victoria since August 2023. She was previously the vice-chancellor of Monash University from 2014 to 2023 and the president and vice-chancellor of RMIT University from 2005 to 2014.
Sir Malcolm David Evans,is an English legal scholar. He is currently Principal of Regent's Park College,Oxford,England and started in 2023.
Peter McPhee is an Australian academic and former provost of the University of Melbourne. He is the first person to have held the position at Melbourne,as it has typically only been in place at universities in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Leyla Şahin v. Turkey was a 2004 European Court of Human Rights case brought against Turkey by a medical student challenging a Turkish law which bans wearing the Islamic headscarf at universities and other educational and state institutions. The Court upheld the Turkish law by 16 votes to 1.
George John Williams is an Australian academic specialising in Australian constitutional law and the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Planning and Assurance at the University of New South Wales. He was formerly the Dean of the Law Faculty.
Bernadette McSherry is a lawyer,writer and Emeritus Professor at the University of Melbourne. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia,Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and a Commissioner with the Victorian Law Reform Commission.
Academic ranks in the United Kingdom are the titles,relative seniority and responsibility of employees in universities. In general the country has three academic career pathways:one focused on research,one on teaching,and one that combines the two.
Philippa Eleanor "Pip" Pattison is a quantitative psychologist who retired in December 2021 as the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Education at the University of Sydney. She is now an Emeritus Professor at the University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne.
Megan Jane Davis is an Aboriginal Australian activist and international human rights lawyer. She was the first Indigenous Australian to sit on a United Nations body,and was Chair of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Davis is Pro Vice-Chancellor,Indigenous,and Balnaves Chair in Constitutional Law at the University of New South Wales. She is especially known for her work on the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
Janice Clare Reid is an Australian academic and medical anthropologist,who has specialised in Aboriginal and refugee health. She was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Western Sydney from 1998 to 2013.
Adrienne Stone is an Australian legal academic specialising in the areas of constitutional law and constitutional theory,with particular expertise in freedom of expression.
Katherine Darian-Smith,is an Australian social historian and academic. She is executive dean and pro vice-chancellor at the University of Tasmania.
Ian Phillip Anderson,is an Australian academic and senior public servant.
