Biography
Emeritus Professor Croucher has over 40 years’ experience in the legal academy and government roles, including as President of the Australian Law Reform Commission (2009-2017) and the Australian Human Rights Commission (2017-2024). She also served as Dean of Macquarie Law School (1999-2007) and Sydney Law School (1997-1998). Croucher has received many accolades for her contributions to public policy and to the legal profession, including the Australian Women Lawyers’ award (2014), Lifetime Achievement Award of the Women Lawyers' Association (2015) and Order of Australia (AM) in 2015, for ‘significant service to the law as an academic, to legal reform and education, to professional development, and to the arts’. In 2018 and 2020, she was awarded honorary LLDs by UNSW and Macquarie University respectively. In her non-legal life, Rosalind plays the oboe and cor anglais, and has sung with the Bar Choir since its inception in 1995.
