Our International Advisory Board

Rehan Abeyratne is Professor and Associate Dean (Higher Degree Research) at Western Sydney University School of Law. He serves as an elected member of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) Council and as co-chair of the Society’s Committee on New Directions in Scholarship.

He holds editorial positions at the Asian Journal of Comparative Law (Subject Editor) and at Comparative Constitutional Studies (Special Issue Editor). Among other publications, Professor Abeyratne is the author ofCourts and LGBTQ Rights in an Age of Judicial Retrenchment (Oxford University Press 2025) and co-editor of Towering Judges: A Comparative Study of Constitutional Judges(Cambridge University Press 2021).

Prior to joining WSU, Professor Abeyratne held academic positions at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Faculty of Law and at Jindal Global Law School.

He has held visiting positions at New York University (NYU) School of Law, Melbourne Law School, and the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Law.

Merris Amos is Professor of Human Rights Law in the Department of Law, Queen Mary University of London, and Director of the Human Rights Law Centre for the School of Law.

Professor Amos’s research and writing focuses on the protection of human rights through law at the national and European levels. She is an expert on the UK Human Rights Act 1998 and the European Convention on Human Rights. Her book Human Rights Law Third Edition (Oxford: Hart, 2021) is the leading work on the Human Rights Act. She has numerous publications in the fields of national and European human rights law including ‘The Value of the European Court of Human Rights to the United Kingdom’(2017) 28 European Journal of International Law 763-785. She is regularly invited to present her work at national and international conferences and in 2022 convened the Society of Legal Scholars Annual Seminar ‘The Human Rights Act After Twenty-Two Years: Evolution, Impact, Future Directions’.

Professor Amos is a longstanding member of the Executive Committee of the UK Constitutional Law Association and also holds the post of Treasurer. In 2018 she was elected to the Executive Committee of the International Association of Constitutional Law. From 2006-2013 she was the Editor ofHuman Rights Law Reports UK Cases.Her work is frequently cited in official reports including J. George The Modern Bill of Rights Bill (London: The Constitution Society, 2022) and The Independent Human Rights Act Review ( 2021).

Anna Dziedzic is a practitioner and researcher in the field of comparative constitutional law. She was a founding Convenor of the Constitution Transformation Network at Melbourne Law School from 2016-2023 and a Programme Officer for Constitution Building Processes at the Asia Pacific Office of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) from 2023-2025. She has provided advice and contributed to scholarship on a range of constitutional issues including courts and judges, federalism, gender and constitutions, legal pluralism, amnesties, citizenship and representation. She has particular expertise in the constitutional systems of Oceania. She is the author of Foreign Judges in the Pacific and co-editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Foreign Judges on Domestic Courts and her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals and edited collections including Comparative Constitutional Studies, Global Constitutionalism and Verfassung in Recht und Übersee.

Anna holds a PhD from Melbourne Law School, an MA in Human Rights from University College London and a BA/LLB from the Australian National University. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Laureate Program in Comparative Constitutional Law at Melbourne Law School from 2022-2023 and a Global Academic Fellow at the Hong Kong University Faculty of Law from 2019-2021. She was previously a legal policy adviser in the Australian Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Australian Law Reform Commission and has worked with government agencies, international organisations and NGOs on governance projects in Asia and the Pacific.

Giuseppe Martinico is Full Professor of Comparative Public Law at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies), Pisa. Prior to joining the Scuola Sant’Anna, he was García Pelayo Fellow at the Centro de EstudiosPoliticos y Constitucionales (CEPC), Madrid and Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence.

In Pisa he also serves as Director of the STALS Program (www.stals.santannapisa.it).

He was also an honorary professor at the Centre of European Law of the University of Henan, Kaifeng and Visiting Professor at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.

Aneesa Walji is a lawyer and practitioner with 15 years of experience working in Asia, Africa, and North America, including with UN Women, UNDP, and International IDEA. Her work has covered constitutional transitions, elections, peace processes, and the rule of law, among other areas.

She has also worked as a compliance manager in the private sector. Aneesa holds a Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor from the University of Toronto and a Master of Laws from New York University.