Overview
Dr Anna Dziedzic is a practitioner and researcher in the field of comparative constitutional law. She was a founding Convenor of the Constitution Transformation Network at Melbourne Law School from 2016 to 2023 and a Programme Officer for Constitution Building Processes at the Asia Pacific Office of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) from 2023 to 2025. She has been an Honorary Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School since 2023, affiliated with the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies.
Anna has provided advice and contributed to scholarship on a range of constitutional issues including courts and judges, constitution-making and amendment, federalism, gender and constitutions, legal pluralism, amnesties, citizenship and representation. She has particular expertise in the constitutional systems of Oceania.
Her research has been published in leading law journals, including Comparative Constitutional Studies, Global Constitutionalism and the Federal Law Review. Her monograph, Foreign Judges in the Pacific (Hart, 2021) was awarded a special mention by the International Society of Public Law in the ICON*S 2023 Book Prize. She has co-edited two research handbooks: The Cambridge Handbook on Foreign Judges on Domestic Courts (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and Constitutions and Democracies (Edward Elgar, 2026).
Anna holds a PhD from Melbourne Law School, an MA in Human Rights from University College London, and a BA/LLB from the Australian National University. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Laureate Program in Comparative Constitutional Law at Melbourne Law School from 2022 to 2023 and a Global Academic Fellow at the Hong Kong University Faculty of Law from 2019 to 2021. She was previously a legal policy adviser in the Australian Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Australian Law Reform Commission and has worked with government agencies, international organisations and NGOs on governance projects in Asia and the Pacific.
In 2027, Anna will be the Subject Coordinator for the MLM subject, Pacific Constitutionalism.