Rosalind Croucher

Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM FAAL FRSA FACLM(Hon) has an extensive career in law, leading government agencies and law schools. A Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and an Honorary Fellow of the Australian College of Legal Medicine, she commenced her seven-year term as President of the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) on 30 July 2017. Prior to joining the AHRC, Professor Croucher was President of the Australian Law Reform Commission (2009–2017) and Commissioner (2006–2009), where she led a number of landmark law reform inquiries, including on Disability Laws, Encroachment on Freedoms in Commonwealth Laws, and Elder Abuse. She has published extensively, principally in the fields of property, equity, legal history and public policy. At the AHRC, she has led the Free & Equal project, a multi-year program of work, which recommends improved human rights protections, through a Human Rights Act and significant discrimination law reforms, in a Human Rights Framework fit for the 21st century.