In this episode, co-directors Juliette Marchant and Rachel Killean sit down with Professor Simon Rice, the Kim Santow Chair of Law and Social Justice at USyd Law, to discuss what social justice means to him. They discuss the wealth of social justice research happening inside USyd Law School and provide advice to students who would like to get more involved in social justice work. A must-listen for students seeking to expand their legal horizons.
Immediately before joining Sydney Law School, Simon was a professor of law, and director of law reform and social justice, at the ANU College of Law. He has previously been a lecturer in the University of NSW Law Faculty 1989-1995 where he was director of clinical programs, and a senior lecturer in the Division of Law at Macquarie University from 2005-2007.
After a period in private commercial practice, Simon worked as a poverty lawyer at Redfern Legal Centre in Sydney and co-founded Macarthur Legal Centre. He was principal solicitor and director of Kingsford Legal Centre while director of clinical programs at UNSW. He has practised extensively in poverty law in community legal centres, particularly anti-discrimination law.
Simon has been a board member of Macarthur Legal Centre, Redfern Legal Centre, Redfern Legal Centre Publishing, the Communications Law Centre, the Disability Discrimination Legal Centre, the Intellectual Disability Rights Centre, and Canberra Community Law. He has been Director of the NSW Law and Justice Foundation, President of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, a Board member of the NSW Legal Aid Commission, a consultant to the NSW Law Reform Commission, a judicial member of the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal, Chair of the ACT Law Reform Advisory Council, and legal adviser to the federal Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights.
