Sarah Murray (Ford, 1995)

Sarah Murray (Ford, 1995) is a Professor at the UWA Law School where she is an expert in constitutional law, court innovation and community justice centres. She has previously been a Commissioner with the Law Reform Commission of WA, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and Co-Chair of the International Society of Public Law AUS-NZ Chapter.

Sarah completed a combined degree in Law and Arts (majoring in Anthropology) at UWA and later completed a PhD at Monash University where her thesis was awarded the Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal for Law and later published as, The Remaking of the Courts – Less-Adversarial Practice and the Constitutional Role of the Judiciary in Australia (Federation Press, 2014). She was awarded the Institute for Advanced Studies Distinguished Early Career Fellowship for the Humanities and a Fay Gale Fellowship for her work on Community Justice Centres and recently published a monograph, Community Justice Centres – New Trajectories in Law (Routledge, 2022).

Before becoming an academic, Sarah worked at a large commercial law firm and as a community lawyer in the mental health area.