Professor Rosemary Langford

Overview

Professor Rosemary Langford is Harold Ford Professor of Commercial Law, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, where she is Director of Commercial Law Studies and Director of Melbourne Centre for Commercial Law. Rosemary has published widely in the areas of corporate law and corporate governance, including Directors' Duties: Principles and Application (Federation Press, 2014, 2nd ed pending), Company Directors' Duties and Conflicts of Interest (Oxford University Press, 2019), Technology and Corporate Law (Edward Elgar, 2021) 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. In 2025 Rosemary was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship for a four-year project on corporate purpose, regulation of not-for-profit corporations and directors' duties. Prior to academia Rosemary practised with Allens Linklaters.

Other Faculty and University Responsibilities

• Director, Melbourne Centre for Commercial Law
• Associate Director, Corporate Law and Financial Regulation Program, Melbourne Centre for Commercial Law
• Director of Studies, Commercial Law (MLM)
• JD Board of Examiners (Corporations Law)

Memberships and Affiliations

Editor, Directors' Duties Section, Company & Securities Law Journal
Member, Advisory Board, SSRN eJournal, Fiduciary Law
Member, Corporations Committee, Business Law Section, Law Council of Australia
Member, Not-for-Profit Law Committee, Law Council of Australia
Member, AICD Laws Committee
Member, Society of Corporate Law Academics