Regina Graycar

Regina Graycar is an Australian lawyer and academic. By 1992 she was an associate professor at the University of New South Wales,^[1] and already working on how the law was biased against women.^[1] From 1997 to 2012 she was a professor of law at the University of Sydney^[2] and she served as Commissioner of the NSW Law Reform Commission from 1998 to 2002.^[2] She has served on the advisory board for the Australian Feminist Law Journal.^[3][4][5] Since her return to the NSW bar in late 2012 she became emeritus professor of the Law School of the University of Sydney.^[2] She is currently (2024) a senior member of the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal.^[6]

Graycar was awarded a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) degree from the University of Adelaide in 1978^[7] and a Master of Laws degree from Harvard University in 1981.^[7]

Graycar has explored the concept of family under Australian law,^[8][9] gender bias in Australian law & judgments,^[10][11] working at the intersection of feminism and the law,^[12][13] and is co-author with Jenny Morgan of The Hidden Gender of Law.^[14] Her work addresses the systematic failures of the legal system for those who are largely unrepresented in the legal system, including not only women, but adolescents,^[15] the institutionally abused,^[16] and aborigenes.^[17] Given that she is addressing systemic failure, her work encompasses administrative law, constitutional law,^[2] the law of torts,^[18] legal systems and processes, together with law reform and legal responses to systemic injuries.^[2]

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