Enid Campbell Awarded

Enid Campbell awarded highest medal in Australia Day honours

Former Faculty of Law dean and Sir Isaac Isaacs Professor of Law at Monash, Emeritus Professor Enid Campbell OBE, was awarded the AC (Companion in the Order of Australia), the highest award in the Australian honours system, for her services to legal scholarship and education, raising debate in the field of constitutional law and her work on public law reform.

Enid began her illustrious career as a young girl at the Methodist Ladies College in Launceston where she was dux of the school. She then went on to study economics and law at the University of Tasmania graduating in 1955. After accepting a scholarship to Duke University in North Carolina she completed a PhD that included study of international law, jurisprudence and public administration.

In 1959, Enid returned to Tasmania and became the first female lecturer in the University of Tasmania Law School, teaching political science. The following year she took a lecturing position at the University of Sydney and from 1965 to 1967 was associate professor in Law.

In 1967 she was appointed Sir Isaac Isaac Professor of Law at Monash University and became the first woman to hold a Chair of Law in any Australasian University. Over the last 30 years her research work has encompassed the areas of constitutional law, legal history and administrative law. Although she officially retired in 1997, Professor Campbell remains an active and influential researcher and continues to publish learned works at the highest level.

The staff and students of the Faculty of Law and wider Monash community extend heartfelt congratulations to Enid Campbell on her award which is the highest Australian honour attained by any academic staff member in the history of the Monash Law School.