Gillian Triggs
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Emeritus Professor Gillian Triggs |
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Triggs in 2006
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| President of the Australian Human Rights Commission | |
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Assumed office 30 July 2012 |
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| Appointed by | Nicola Roxon |
| Preceded by | Catherine Branson QC |
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| Born | 30 October 1945 |
| Citizenship | Australian |
| Spouse(s) | Alan Brown AM |
| Children | 3 (1 deceased) |
| Alma mater |
University of Melbourne Southern Methodist University |
| Occupation | Academic |
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Public international lawyer Academic |
Gillian Doreen Triggs (born 30 October 1945) is an Australian academic specialising in public international law and the current President of the Australian Human Rights Commission (HRC). She is a former Dean of the Sydney Law School, where she was the Challis Professor of International Law between 2007 to 2012. Prior to that she was a professor at the Melbourne Law School.
Triggs was also Acting Race Discrimination Commissioner of the HRC from 30 July 2012 to 19 August 2013, and is presently the Acting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner. Her statutory term as President of the HRC will expire in 2017.
Triggs attended University High School and the University of Melbourne, where she was awarded "Miss University 1966". She earned a Bachelor of Laws in 1967 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1982. After her admission to the Supreme Court of Victoria as a barrister and solicitor, Triggs worked as a tutor at Monash University.
Triggs also earned a Master of Laws from Southern Methodist University in University Park, Texas, a suburb of Dallas in 1972, whilst working with the Dallas Police Department, serving as Legal Advisory to the Chief of Police on the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
In 1987, Triggs joined Mallesons Stephen Jaques, where she worked as a consultant on international law.
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