Simon Rice is a Professor of Law at the University of Sydney where he teaches law reform, law and social justice, and legal ethics, and is a lawyer on the volunteer roster at Redfern Legal Centre. Simon has worked at, managed and consulted to a number of community legal centres in Australia, and has researched and written on legal aid and access to justice. He has been a board member of New South Wales (NSW) Legal Aid, director of the NSW Law and Justice Foundation, and chair of the Australian Capital Territory Law Reform Advisory Council. As an independent consultant he has reviewed the NSW and national public legal service funding programs. He is a member of the International Legal Aid Group, and of the of the Research Committe on Sociology of Law’s International Working Group on the Legal Professions. His co-authored publications include Australian Anti-Discrimination and Equal Opportunity Law, and The International Law of Human Rights. In 2002 Simon was awarded a medal in the Order of Australia for legal services to the economically and socially disadvantaged.
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