Professor David Weisbrot AM is an Emeritus Professor of Law and Honorary Professorial Fellow in Medicine at the University of Sydney.

He is currently a part-time Member of the New South Wales Law Reform Commission; Vice-President and Director of the Australian Academy of Law; a Member of the Strategic Advisory Board of the Garvan Institute‘s Centre for Clinical Genomics (CCG), in Sydney; a Director of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre; an Executive Consultant to Charles Sturt University; and a member of the Advisory Councils of Voiceless: the Animal Protection Institute and the National Pro Bono Resources Centre.

From 1999-2009, David was President of the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) — the longest serving President in the ALRC’s history — and presided over 15 major national inquiries, including those on: the protection of human genetic information; the handling of classified and security sensitive information; gene patenting and human health; sedition laws; federal secrecy laws; Australian privacy law and practice the federal civil justice system; the judicial power of the Commonwealth; marine insurance; uniform evidence laws; civil and administrative penalties; sentencing federal offenders; and Royal Commissions of inquiry. In 2001, David also chaired the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s National Pro Bono Task Force.