Enid Campbell was born in Launceston and educated there at Methodist Ladies College where she was dux of the school. At the University of Tasmania she studied economics and law and graduated in 1955. Accepting a scholarship to Duke University (North Carolina) she completed a PhD that included the study of international law, jurisprudence and public administration.

In 1959, Enid Campbell returned to Tasmania and became the first female lecturer in the Law School, teaching political science. The next year she took a lecturing position at the University of Sydney and from 1965 to 1967 was Associate Professor in Law.

In 1967 she was appointed Sir Isaac Isaac Professor of Law at Monash University, a position she held until her retirement in 1997.

Events

1959

Lecturer in Political Science, University of Tasmania

1960 - 1961

Lecturer at the University of Sydney

1962 - 1965

Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney

1965 - 1967

Associate Professor Law at the University of Sydney

1967 - 1997

Sir Isaac Isaacs Professor of Law at Monash University, Melbourne

1974 - 1976

Member of the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration

1976 - 1978

Member of the Council of the Australian National University, Canberra

1982 - 1984

Member of the Law Reform Advisory Council, Victoria

1985 - 1988

Member of the Constitutional Commission, Canberra

1990

Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) at the University of Tasmania

Sources used to compile this entry: accessed 18102002 and Who's Who in Australia 2002, p. 362.