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New appointments to the ALRC and Macquarie Law School
Former Dean of Law at Macquarie Law School, Professor Rosalind Croucher, has been appointed president of the Australian Law Reform Commission.
The ALRC is the independent federal statutory body which conducts inquiries into areas of law reform at the request of the Attorney-General of Australia. Its focus is on federal laws and legal processes.
Croucher was Dean of Law at Macquarie from 1999 to 2007 and has been a member of the commission since 2007. Her career spans more than 25 years in university teaching and management roles. She has lectured extensively in the field of equity, trusts, property, inheritance and legal history. She was appointed an honorary fellow of the Australian College of Legal Medicine in 2004, and a foundation fellow of the Australian Academy of Law in 2007.
Croucher takes over the prestigious post from Emeritus Professor David Weisbrot AM, who held the position for more than 10 years. Weisbrot will take up an appointment in January 2010 as Professor of Law at Macquarie Law School in the University’s Concentration of Research Excellence in Legal Governance.
Weisbrot has an impressive international reputation as a scholar, adviser and policymaker in such areas as criminal law and procedure, regulation of the legal profession and law and medicine and has served on many national bodies such as the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Administrative Review Council, the International Legal Services Advisory Council and the National Task Force on Pro Bono Legal Services.
Macquarie University congratulates Professor Croucher on her new appointment with the ALRC and welcomes Professor Weisbrot to the University.