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Lynsey Blayden has lectured in Administrative and Federal Constitutional Law at UNSW, where she completed a PhD in 2020. Her doctoral thesis explored the role of values discernible within the Australian political    system, such as trust in democracy and a belief in the positive role of the administrative state, in the shaping of the doctrine of judicial review of administrative action. Lynsey is a Fellow of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law and has previously worked for the New South Wales Parliamentary Library Research Service and the New South Wales Department of Premier and Cabinet.

Dr Anna Dziedzic is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Laureate Program in Comparative Constitutional Law. She researches comparative constitutional law and judicial studies, with a particular focus on the Pacific region. Her postdoctoral research explores how constitutions and constitutional institutions are reflective of the people and the state, and how they can accommodate diversity, legal pluralism and non-state actors. Anna is a Convenor of the Constitution Transformation Network at Melbourne Law School, Co-Editor of the Blog of the International Association for Constitutional Law, and Regional Coordinator for Oceania for the Global Citizenship Observatory at the European University Institute. Previously she was a Global Academic Fellow at the Faculty of Law at Hong Kong University, where she conducted comparative research into foreign judges on domestic courts. Anna holds a PhD in law from Melbourne Law School, an MA in Human Rights from University College London and a BA/LLB from the Australian National University. She is the author of Foreign Judges in the Pacific (Hart 2021) and co-editor of the Cambridge Handbook of Foreign Judges on Domestic Courts (forthcoming). She has published academic journal articles in Global Constitutionalism, Federalismi, Federal Law Review, and the Hong Kong Law Journal, as well as practice and policy papers with International IDEA, the United Nations Development Programme, and the National Research Institute of Papua New Guinea.

Jayani Nadarajalingam researches primarily in political philosophy and social theory. Her doctoral thesis (currently under examination) considers issues of methodology in political philosophy, with a particular focus on constructive roles political philosophy could play in the guiding and evaluation of political action in the real world and, in doing so, take history and social context seriously. During her postdoctoral fellowship with the Laureate Program in Comparative Constitutional Law, she plans to apply the methodology developed in her doctoral thesis to study the roles played by state and non-state actors in various constitutional contexts. She was a Kathleen Fitzpatrick visiting fellow with the Program in 2018 and is very much looking forward to returning to the Program in a longer term capacity. Jayani is a Convenor of the Constitution Transformation Network at Melbourne Law School. Previously she was a lecturer with the Melbourne School of Government. She has extensive teaching experience, having taught in the Melbourne School of Government’s undergraduate breadth and Masters programs and the Melbourne Law School’s JD program.  Jayani undertook her doctoral research at Monash University (Law and Arts(philosophy) faculties). She holds an LLM (Legal Theory) from New York University and a BA(Hons)/LLB(Hons) from Monash University. She has forthcoming chapters in Constitutional Resilience in South Asia (Hart Bloomsbury) and Facts in Public Law Adjudication (Hart Bloomsbury). In 2019, she received funding from the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness’s competitive seed funding scheme.

Dr. Dinesha Samararatne is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Public & International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Colombo. At the University of Colombo, Dinesha has been teaching Administrative Law, Constitutional Law and Human Rights Law. Previously she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the ARC Laureate Program in Comparative Constitutional Law where she studied constitution-making in post-war contexts (2019-2020). Dinesha is a Co-Convenor of the Constitution Transformation Network (CTN) of the Melbourne Law School, a Co-Editor of the Blog of the International Association for Constitutional Law (IACL) and a member of the Editorial Board of the Indian Law Review. Her recent research work has been in relation to public participation in constitution-making, constitutional resilience, women and constitutional law, and the relevance of the global south in comparative constitutional law. Dinesha has previously been affiliated with the Centre on Comparative Constitutional Law as a Kathleen Fitzpatrick Visiting Fellow (April – May 2018). Dinesha has published in the Asian Journal of Comparative Law, Journal of Law and Society, Indian Law Review, Asian Journal of Law and Society, the Modern Law Review, and the Journal of Asian Studies.

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Erika Arban holds a PhD in Law from the University of Ottawa in Canada, where her doctoral thesis Italian Regionalism and the Federal Challenge was awarded the Governor General Gold Medal for the best thesis in the humanities. Erika’s primary research interests are in comparative constitutional law and theory, with a focus on federalism, and legal research methodology. She is particularly interested in cities as constitutional units, constitutional law and socio-economic asymmetries, and languages in comparative constitutional law. Erika was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Laureate Program in Comparative Constitutional Law (May 2017-June 2022).  Erika is one of the co-editors of Federalism and Constitutional Law. The Italian Contribution to Comparative Federalism(Routledge 2021) and the sole editor of Cities in Federal Constitutional Theory(OUP 2022, forthcoming). She is the co-convenor of the IACL research group New Frontiers of Federalism, and comments editor of Comparative Constitutional Studies. Her work has been published in journals such as The Modern Law Review, the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, and ICON. Erika also held teaching positions at the University of Ottawa, the University of Antwerp, and the University of Milan.

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