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Rosemary Langford

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Rosemary Langford (née Teele) is a lawyer, writer and academic from Australia. She is Harold Ford Professor of Commercial Law at Melbourne Law School at the University of Melbourne.[1]

Langford grew up in Melbourne and attended Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne. She has a first class honours degree in Law (as well as a Bachelor of Arts majoring in French and German) from the University of Melbourne and a PhD from Monash University. In 1996 Langford was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship.[2] On graduating she worked as a lawyer with Allens Arthur Robinson (now Allens Linklaters)[3] and later became a lecturer in law at the University of Melbourne Law School.[1] She is also a barrister and solicitor at the Supreme Court of Victoria.[4]

Langford is an active member of the Corporations Committee of the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia,[1] as well as the Not for Profit Law Committee of the Law Council of Australia.[1] She also edits the Directors' Duties Section of the Company & Securities Law Journal.[5]

Publications

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  • Directors’ Duties: Principles and Application (2014), Federation Press[1]
  • Company Directors’ Duties and Conflicts of Interest (Oxford University Press, 2019)[1]
  • Technology and Corporate Law (Edward Elgar, 2021)[6]
  • Corporate Law and Governance in the 21st Century (edited, Federation Press, 2023)[6]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f "Dr Rosemary Langford". Melbourne Law School. 9 February 2018. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
  2. ^ "Rhodes Scholars at the University of Melbourne". About us. 16 November 2017. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
  3. ^ "Federation Press - Author: Dr Rosemary Teele Langford". www.federationpress.com.au. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  4. ^ "Dr Rosemary Teele Langford". Retrieved 2 June 2018.
  5. ^ Hendley-Boys, Angela (22 February 2019). "Associate Professor Rosemary Langford". Melbourne Law School. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  6. ^ a b "Rosemary Teele Langford". The Federation Press. Retrieved 19 June 2024.