Sandy Duncanson Social Justice Lecture 2022

Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM is President of the Australian Human Rights Commission.

Rosalind commenced her seven-year term as Commission President on 30 July 2017.

Prior to joining the Commission, Rosalind was President of the Australian Law Reform Commission (2009–2017) and Commissioner (2006–2009), where she led a number of significant law reform inquiries, including on Client Legal Privilege, Secrecy Laws, Family Violence, Discovery, Age Barriers to Work, Disability Laws, Encroachment on Freedoms in Commonwealth Laws and Elder Abuse. As President she also oversaw inquiries such as Native Title, Copyright and Serious Invasions of Privacy.

In 2019, Women Lawyers’ Association of NSW awarded Rosalind the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Rosalind had a distinguished career in legal education prior to 2007, with 25 years in university teaching and management. She was Dean of Law at Macquarie University (1999–2007) and Sydney University (1997–1998) and lectured and published extensively, principally in the fields of equity, trusts, property, inheritance and legal history. She became a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law in 2007 and was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2015 for significant service to the law as an academic, to legal reform and education, to professional development and to the arts.

You can join this lecture online or in-person at our Sandy Bay Campus. Doors open from 5:30pm. To attend the online event, register via Zoom. To attend in-person, take your free tickets to the checkout now.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Stanley Burbury Theatre, University Centre, Sandy Bay campus, Churchill Avenue, Hobart, Australia