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Cheryl Saunders

Cheryl Saunders is Laureate Professor Emeritus and Foundation Director of the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies at the University of Melbourne School of Law.

POSTS BY Cheryl Saunders

28 February 2020

Cheryl Saunders

The Constitutional Status of Indigenous Australians

In two recent judgments, the apex Australian court, the High Court, decided what intuitively seems obvious: that Aboriginal Australians, as that term is understood in Australian law, cannot be deported from Australia. The case exposed several fault lines that run through Australian law. Continue reading >>

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04 April 2018

Cheryl Saunders, Michael Henry Yusingco

Complexities of Constitutional Change in the Philippines

President Rodrigo Duterte assumed office in July 2016, His party, PDP-Laban, had campaigned under the slogan: “No to Drugs, Yes to Federalism”. Duterte thus is committed to shepherding the Philippines towards a federal form of government; an undertaking that would require an extensive overhaul of the country’s constitution. The future of constitutional change under Duterte in any event is uncertain for a series of constitutional and political reasons. Critically, some of the most pressing of these concern the process of constitutional change itself. Continue reading >>

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