Helen IrvingHelen Irving is a Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Sydney. She holds degrees in political science, anthropology, history, and law. She has held visiting positions at the University of Hong Kong, Harvard University (with the Harvar Chair of Australian Studies), the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the European University Institute, Florence. She is the author and editor of many works on constitutional history, gender and constitutionalism, and constitutional citizenship, including four monographs, the most recent of which is Citizenship, Alienage and the Modern Constitutional State: A Gendered History (Cambridge, 2016). She has served as an expert adviser to national and international agencies, including the National Archives of Australia, the ABC, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and United Nations Women, and is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Australian Academy of Law, Royal Society of New South Wales. She was awarded the Australian Centenary Medal in 2003. Read More Read Less