CONSTITUTIONAL lawyer Greg Craven has been named Curtin University of Technology’s new chair in government.
Through his chairmanship, Professor Craven will head the proposed Research Centre in Government and Constitutional Law in the university’s division of humanities.
Some of the key areas the centre will be looking at include Federal finance, parliamentary reform, legal mechanisms for public accountability and the ethics of public governance.
Professor Craven is currently foundation dean and professor of law at Notre Dame University.
He has significant experience in his field including roles as a Reader of Law at the University of Melbourne, Crown Counsel to the Kennett Government in Victoria and as a delegate at the 1998 Constitutional Convention.