Biographical entry

Craven, Greg (1958 - )

Officer (AO) in the General Division of the Order of Australia

Born
1/01/1958

Chronology

1/01/1992 - 1997
Reader in Law - Melbourne Law School Employment

Additional Notes

Professor Greg CRAVEN was educated at St Kevin's College, Toorak and the University of Melbourne (BA, 1980; LLB, 1981; LLM, 1984). He taught at Monash University (1982-1984) and was Director of Research for the Legal and Constitutional Committee of the Victorian Parliament (1985-1987). After serving for three years (1992-95) as Crown Counsel to the present Attorney-General for Victoria, he returned to his previous post of Associate Professor and Reader in Law at the University of Melbourne, before being appointed (1996) as Professor of Law at Notre Dame University, Fremantle. He specialises in constitutional law, and has written and edited a number of books in that area, including Secession: The Ultimate States' Right (1986) and Australian Federation: Towards the Second Century (ed.) (1991). [Extract from: Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference of The Samuel Griffith Society (Melbourne, 9 -11 July,1999) http://www.samuelgriffith.org.au/papers/html/volume11/v11app1.htm]

Publications

Books

Online Resources

  • Craven, G., The High Court of Australia : a study in the abuse of power, vol. 22, 1999, 216 pp. Details
  • Lindell, G. J. & Craven, G., 'Proceedings of seminar held on "Theophanous and Stephens revisited" : an analysis of the High Court's re-opening of Theophanous v Herald &​ Weekly Times Ltd and Stephens v West Australian Newspapers Ltd in Levy v Victoria and Lange v ABC', Centre for Media, Communications and Information Technology Law, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic, 1996, p. 19, http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/39813027. Details