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- Professor Geoffrey Sawer BA, LLM (Melb) FASSA
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Geoffrey Sawer was born at Maymo, Myanmar (then Burma) on 21 December 1910. He was educated at Scotch College and the University of Melbourne and was admitted as a solicitor in 1934 and a barrister in 1938. Sawer lectured in Law at the University of Melbourne. He was appointed Dean of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University in 1949. In January 1950 he was appointed Professor of Law, Research School of Social Sciences and held this position to 1974. Sawer died on 8 August 1996.
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academic; lawyer; poet ; university administrator
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Created by Claire Griffiths on 15 August 2011; revised on 4 June 2012
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Australian National University Calendars 1954-1956
Australian National University, http://heritage.anu.edu.au/?pid=11 (accessed on 24 November 2011)
The Australian Literature Resource, http://www.austlit.edu.au/ (accessed on 15 August 2011)