Editors --- "Contributors" [2011] SGSocUphAUCon 16; (2011) 23 Upholding the Australian Constitution 137

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Contributors

Professor James Allan, a Canadian by birth, was educated at W. A. Porter Collegiate, Scarborough, Ontario, and at the Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, the London School of Economics, and the University of Hong Kong. After working at the Bar in Toronto and in London, he has since taught law in New Zealand, Hong Kong, Canada and the United States before appointment as Garrick Professor of Law at the University of Queensland in 2004.

Scott Bennett has degrees from the University of Tasmania and the Australian National University where he lectured in political science. He was subsequently a member of the Politics and Public Administration Group, Parliamentary Library.

The Honourable Ian Callinan, AC, a graduate of the University of Queensland, was admitted to the Queensland Bar in 1965. He was a Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1998 until 2007. He became President of The Samuel Griffith Society in 2010.

The Honourable William Cox, AC, was educated at Xavier College, Melbourne, and at the University of Tasmania from which he graduated with degrees in Arts and Laws. He was Director of Public Prosecutions in Tasmania from 1977 until appointment to the Supreme Court of Tasmania in 1982. Chief Justice from 1995 until 2004, he was also Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania from 1996 until 2004 when he was appointed Governor. He retired as Governor in 2008.

Dr Murray Cranston was educated at the University of Queensland and the Australian National University. A senior adviser on the staff of the Leader of the Opposition, Tony Abbott, he has previously worked for Senators Bill O’Chee and Jeannie Ferris. From January until October 2008 he worked in the office of Senator Jay Rockefeller IV (Democrat, West Virginia) on a fellowship from the American Political Science Association.

Educated at Fort Street Boys High School and the University of Sydney, the Honourable Robert Ellicott, QC, was admitted to the NSW Bar in 1950. Solicitor-General of the Commonwealth from 1969 until 1974, he was a Liberal member of the House of Representatives, 1974-81, during which period he was Attorney-General, 1975-77, then Minister for Home Affairs and for the Capital Territory, 1977-81. He was a member of the Federal Court from 1981 to 1983.

The Honourable Michael Field, AC, was educated at Devonport High School and the University of Tasmania. A member of the House of Assembly from 1976 until 1997, he held various front bench posts until becoming Leader of the parliamentary Labor Party in 1988. Leader of the Opposition, 1988-89 and 1992-97, he was Premier of Tasmania from 1989 until 1992.

The Honourable Justice J. D. Heydon, AC, has been a member of the High Court of Australia since 2003; he was previously a justice of the New South Wales Court of Appeal from 2000 until 2003. He was educated at the University of Sydney and, as a Rhodes Scholar, at Oxford University. He was subsequently a Tutor and Fellow at Keble College, Oxford, 1967-73, and CUF Lecturer at Oxford, 1969-73. Upon return to Australia in 1973, before practicing at the Bar, he held a chair in the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney until 1981, and was Dean, 1978-79. He has published extensively on legal matters and, since 1990, been the General Editor of Halsbury’s Laws Australia. He has been an Honorary Fellow of University College, Oxford, since 2003; and of Keble College since 2006. He has also been an Honorary Bencher of Gray’s Inn since 2005.

Ben Jellis, now a barrister at the Melbourne Bar practicing in commercial and administrative law, recently graduated as a Bachelor of Civil Law with Distinction at Oxford. He has written for several newspapers and periodicals including The Australian, The Age, Spectator Australia, Quadrant and the Oxonian Review of Books. In 2009 he contributed a chapter to Don’t Leave us with the Bill (Menzies Research Centre).

Dr M. R. L. L. Kelly is a Senior Lecturer at the Macquarie Law School in Sydney, where she teaches constitutional law, administrative law, and politics and the Constitution. A former member of the Australian Public Service, she worked mostly in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.

Julian Leeser was Executive Director of the Menzies Research Centre from 2006 until 2012. A graduate of the University of New South Wales in Arts and Laws, he was an elected delegate for Australians for a Constitutional Monarchy at the 1998 Constitutional Convention and subsequently served as a member of the “No” Case Committee for the republican referendum. He has since been Associate to then High Court Justice Callinan (2000), adviser to the then Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Tony Abbott (2001), and, more recently, special adviser to the then Commonwealth Attorney-General, Philip Ruddock (2004-06).

The Honourable Michael Mischin, MLC, has been Parliamentary Secretary to the Western Australian Minister for Corrective Services since 2009.

L. J. Neasey, a graduate in Laws from the University of Tasmania, recently retired as Senior Crown Counsel in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. He began a study of Andrew Inglis Clark in 1993 in order to complete a biography commenced by his father, the late Mr Justice F. M. Neasey of the Supreme Court of Tasmania.

Paul Pirani, a graduate in Arts and Laws from the Australian National University, is Chief Legal Officer at the Australian Electoral Commission where he is also Assistant Commissioner, Legal and Compliance Branch. As well as a period in private practice, he has previously been employed in the Health and Family Services, and Veterans’ Affairs portfolios, as well as the Australian Communications Authority.

A. J. Stoker, a member of the Brisbane Bar, studied law at the University of Sydney. She was subsequently Associate of former High Court Justice Callinan.