SIMON RICE

Simon Rice is Associate Professor and Director of Law Reform and Social Justice at the ANU College of Law, Australian National University, Canberra. He has previously held appointments at UNSW, Sydney University and Macquarie University. His principal areas of teaching, research and writing are access to justice, human rights, anti-discrimination law, law reform, evidence, and clinical legal education.

After working initially in commercial legal practice, Simon was a solicitor at Redfern Legal Centre in Sydney and co-founded Macarthur Legal Centre. He was Director of Kingsford Legal Centre, and has worked at, managed and consulted to many community legal centres. He is now a board member of the Welfare Rights and Legal Centre in Canberra.

Simon has been Director of the NSW Law and Justice Foundation, President of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, a Board member of NSW Legal Aid, and a consultant to the NSW Law Reform Commission. He is currently a part-time judicial member of the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal in its Equal Opportunity Division. He was awarded a Medal in the Order of Australia for legal services to the economically and socially disadvantaged.

Recent publications include In the Shadow of the Law: the legal context of social work practice, with Phillip Swain (eds) (The Federation Press, 2009); Australian Anti-Discrimination Law: Text, Cases and Materials, with Neil Rees and Katherine Lindsay (The Federation Press, 2008), Sustainable Advocacy: capabilities and attitudes of Australian human rights NGOs, with Scott Calnan (Australian Human Rights Centre, 2007), and Retreat from Injustice; Human Rights Law in Australia, with Nick O’Neill and Roger Douglas (The Federation Press, 2004).