Rosemary Langford

Rosemary Langford (née Teele) is a lawyer, writer and academic from Australia. She is Harold Ford Professor of Commercial Law at Melbourne Law School at the University of Melbourne.^[1]

Langford grew up in Melbourne and attended Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne. She has a first class honours degree in Law (as well as a Bachelor of Arts majoring in French and German) from the University of Melbourne and a PhD from Monash University. In 1996 Langford was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship.^[2] On graduating she worked as a lawyer with Allens Arthur Robinson (now Allens Linklaters)^[3] and later became a lecturer in law at the University of Melbourne Law School.^[1] She is also a barrister and solicitor at the Supreme Court of Victoria.^[4]

Langford is an active member of the Corporations Committee of the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia,^[1] as well as the Not for Profit Law Committee of the Law Council of Australia.^[1] She also edits the Directors' Duties Section of the Company & Securities Law Journal.^[5]

Publications

• Directors’ Duties: Principles and Application (2014), Federation Press^[1]
• Company Directors’ Duties and Conflicts of Interest (Oxford University Press, 2019)^[1]
• Technology and Corporate Law (Edward Elgar, 2021)^[6]
• Corporate Law and Governance in the 21st Century (edited, Federation Press, 2023)^[6]