Brief Bio

Professor Rosemary Langford is Harold Ford Professor of Commercial Law, director of the Melbourne Centre for Commercial Law and director of Commercial Law Studies at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. She teaches a range of subjects including Corporations Law, Corporate Governance and Directors’ Duties and Legal Research. In the last four years she has been undertaking a project on governance and regulation of charities funded by the Australian Research Council.  Rosemary has published and presented nationally and internationally on the topics of directors’ duties, fiduciary duties and governance and regulation of charities. Her publications include Directors’ Duties: Principles and Application (Federation Press, 2014), Company Directors’ Duties and Conflicts of Interest (Oxford University Press, 2019), Technology and Corporate Law (Edward Elgar, 2021), Governance and Regulation of Charities: International and Comparative Perspectives (Edward Elgar, 2023) and Corporate Law and Governance in the 21st Century (Federation Press, 2023). She is a member of the Corporations Committee and Not for Profit Law Committee of the Law Council of Australia and of the Law Committee of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, as well as editor of the directors’ duties section of the Company and Securities Law Journal. Prior to joining academia, Rosemary practised with Arthur Robinson & Hedderwicks (now Allens Linklaters).

Courses taught at CTLS

• Charity Law and Regulation: International Perspectives (Spring 2025)
• Current Issues in Corporate Governance (Spring 2025)