Friday 18 December 2009

North Ryde. New head of reform commission

Professor Rosalind Croucher, former dean of law, at Macquarie Law School, has been appointed president of the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC). Professor Croucher takes over the prestigious post from Emeritus Professor, David Weisbrot, who held the position for more than 10 years; he 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. 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.

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