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Professor Jason N. E. Varuhas (BA LLB (Hons) Victoria University of Wellington, LLM University College London, PhD University of Cambridge) is Professor of Law at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. He received the Yorke Prize for the best doctoral thesis at Cambridge. His career encompasses roles as Judge’s Clerk to Justice Mark O’Regan of the New Zealand Court of Appeal (later Supreme Court), Junior Research Fellow at Christ’s College, Cambridge, Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Associate Professor at Melbourne Law School, and Director of the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies (2021-2023). He currently serves as Senior Crown Counsel at the New Zealand Crown Law Office, providing advice and appellate representation for the New Zealand Government on constitutional and human rights matters. Professor Varuhas is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, Senior Research Fellow at the New Zealand Centre for Public Law (Victoria University of Wellington), and Associate Fellow of the Centre for Public Law (University of Cambridge). He has held distinguished visiting appointments, including Robert S. Campbell Visiting Fellow in Law at Magdalen College, Oxford; Allan Myers Visitor at the University of Oxford Law Faculty; Visiting Fellow at the Bonavero Institute for Human Rights, Oxford; Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law; Fox International Fellow at Yale University; Visiting Scholar at McGill University Faculty of Law; and Visiting Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington Faculty of Law. He is Founder and Director of the biennial Public Law Conference series on public law in common law systems.