Biography
Jason N E Varuhas is Professor of Law at Melbourne Law School and Senior Crown Counsel at the New Zealand Crown Law Office. He is founder and Director of the international series of Public Law Conferences and Senior Research Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington. Professor Varuhas was previously Director of the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies at Melbourne Law School. He has held academic positions at Cambridge, UNSW, and Victoria University Wellington, and visiting positions at Oxford, Yale and McGill Universities.
Professor Varuhas has published widely in public and private law. His scholarship is cited regularly by courts across the common law world, and he has made significant contributions to law reform. His doctoral thesis was awarded the Yorke Prize at Cambridge, and the ensuing book, Damages and Human Rights, was awarded the UK Society of Legal Scholars Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship and the Inner Temple New Authors Book Prize.
