Rosemary Hunter is an Associate Professor of Law at the
University of Melbourne, Australia. During 1998-99 she is seconded to the Justice Research
Centre, Sydney, where she is managing the Centre's study of legal aid services in family
law.She is a leading feminist legal scholar, who has
researched and written in areas including anti-discrimination law, labour law/women's
employment, evidence, dispute resolution and violence against women. She is the author of
Indirect Discrimination in the Workplace (Federation Press, 1992) and co-editor of
Thinking About Law: Perspectives on the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Law (Allen
& Unwin, 1995).
A graduate of Stanford and Melbourne Universities, Professor Hunter
has been a visiting scholar at Georgetown University Law Center in the US, and at the
Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, Faculty of Law, University of Manchester. From
1994-97 she was appointed as a part-time Hearing Commissioner of the Australian Human
Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. She has undertaken a range of private research
consultancies and appeared as an expert witness in the 1998 NSW Pay Equity Inquiry.