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Susan M. Crennan

Address: 

C/- Clerk John Dever, Owen Dixon Chambers West, 205 William Street
VIC 3000
Australia

C/- Clerk Michael Wilcox, New Chambers, Level 34/126 Phillip Street
NSW 2000
Australia

Phone Number: 
(03) 9225 6598
Fax Number: 
(03) 9227 7728
Email: 
dido@vicbar.com.au
Born: 
1945, Melbourne
Languages: 
English
Nationalities: 
Australian
Education: 
BA (University of Melbourne) LL.B (University of Sydney)
Postgraduate Diploma (History) University of Melbourne
Bar Admission or Professional License: 
Admitted to the Bar of New South Wales 1979
Admitted to the Bar of Victoria 1980
Appointed Queens Counsel in 1989
Admitted to the Bar, King’s Inns, Dublin 1991
Gray’s Inn, London, Master of the Bench (H) 2011
Present Position: 
Arbitrator and Mediator
Professional Experience: 

Barrister; Judge of the Federal Court of Australia; Justice of the High Court of Australia.

Professional Associations: 

Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators;
President, Australian Association of Constitutional Law;
Past President, Australian Bar Association.

Arbitration Experience: 

Experienced as party-appointed arbitrator, sole arbitrator and counsel in ACICA, ICC, SIAC and ad hoc arbitrations. Experienced mediator.

Areas of Specialization: 
Arbitration & ADR
Bankruptcy & Insolvency
Commercial Arbitration
Contracts
Intellectual and Industrial Property
Minerals & Mining
Publications from JURIS: 
Publications: 

Jesting Pilate by the Rt Hon Sir Owen Dixon, ed by Crennan and Gummow (2019), Federation Press.

‘Magna Carta, Common Law Values and the Constitution’, Law Oration 2014, Victoria, Banco Court, Supreme Court, Victoria published in Melbourne U.L. Rev (2015) 39 at 331 2014.

‘The Humanities and the Rule of Law’, Faculty of Arts Dean’s Lecture, University of Melbourne 2013.

Book Launch, Interpretation and Use of Legal Sources – The Laws of Australia, Perry Herzfield, Thomas Price and Stephen Tully, Thomson Reuters, Melbourne 2013

‘Varieties Of History And The Law’, Speech at the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, 31 January 2010.

‘Statutes and the Contemporary Search for Meaning’, Statute Law Society Paper, London, 1 February 2010.

‘Recent Developments and Intellectual Property Law in Australia with some reference to the Global Economy’, Paper Delivered At Institute Of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London 2010.

‘Scepticism and judicial method’, Australian Bar Association Conference, Chicago, 28 June 2007; (2008) 82 Austl. L.J., p 169.

‘Reflections on sections 7 and 24 of the Constitution’ Gilbert & Tobin Centre of Public Law, Constitutional Dinner, January 2008.

Launch, Federal Discrimination Law 2008 Edition, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Sydney 2008.

150th Anniversary Dinner Speech and Book Launch, First Principles:  the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne (National Gallery of Victoria) 2007.

‘Blackstone’s “signs”; and statutory interpretation’, CLE Lecture, The Victorian Bar, Melbourne 2007.