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, the Centre for Independent Studies , and the Samuel Griffith Society.

Other SourceWatch Resources

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

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. (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.