Suri Ratnapala

Professor Suri Ratnapala is Professor of Public lawe and Director of the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law at the University of Queensland.

Ratnapala was a speaker at the Australian Environment Foundation's Inaugural Conference 2006, and has written articles for Australian right-wing think tanks the Institute of Public Affairs [1], the Centre for Independent Studies [2], and the Samuel Griffith Society [3].

Other SourceWatch Resources

• Australian Environment Foundation
• Property rights
• Institute of Public Affairs
• Centre for Independent Studies
• Samuel Griffith Society

External links

Biographical Notes

• "Professor Suri Ratnapala", University of Queensland, accessed October 2006.

Awards

• 1991 - Sir Anthony Fisher International Memorial Award for the book Welfare State or Constitutional State?;
• 1994 - Fellowship, Institute for Human Studies, George Mason University, Virginia;
• 1998 - Elected to Mont Pelerin Society, the international association of leading classical liberal scholars
• 2000 - John Templeton Award for course in constitutional political economy
• 2002 - Fellowship, International Centre for Economic Research, Turin, Italy; and
• 2006 - Fellowship, International Centre for Economic Research, Turin, Italy. [4] (Pdf)

Articles and Media Interviews

• "Administrative Regulation in Australia: Its Social, Political and Economic Costs", IPA Backgrounder, Institute of Public Affairs, Volume 8, Number 1, 1996, pages 1-10.
• "Vegetation management in Queensland: A case of constitutional vandalism", IPA Review, Institute of Public Affairs, December 2004, pages 10-11.
• "Constitutional Vandalism under Green Cover", in Upholding the Australian Constitution, Samuel Griffith Society, Volume 17, , 2005, pages 39-72.

Media Interviews

• Michael Duffy, "Part 2: Great White Land Grab", Counterpoint, January 31, 2005.

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