Rate My Professor Rosemary Langford

Langford's research focuses on directors’ duties, fiduciary duties, conflicts of interest, corporate purpose, social licence to operate, and the governance and regulation of charities. She has authored influential books, including Directors’ Duties: Principles and Application (Federation Press, 2014) and Company Directors’ Duties and Conflicts of Interest (Oxford University Press, 2019). Her articles have appeared in prestigious journals such as the Law Quarterly Review, Cambridge Law Journal, Modern Law Review, University of New South Wales Law Journal, and Sydney Law Review, with notable publications including “Best Interests: Multifaceted But Not Unbounded” (Cambridge Law Journal, 2016), “Purpose-Based Governance: A New Paradigm” (UNSW Law Journal, 2020), and “Doing the Job That’s Required?: Social Licence to Operate and Directors’ Duties” (Sydney Law Review, 2022). She has secured major funding, including an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship for her four-year project “Purpose beyond Profit: Modernising Corporations Law,” which examines corporate purpose and directors’ duties in light of environmental, social, and technological challenges, and a prior ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award for “Restoring Public Trust in Charities – Reforming Governance and Enforcement.” Langford edits the directors’ duties section of the Company and Securities Law Journal and holds memberships on the Corporations Committee and Not-for-Profit Law Committee of the Law Council of Australia, as well as the Laws Committee of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She also serves on the Advisory Board of the SSRN eJournal on Fiduciary Law and is a member of the Society of Corporate Law Academics. Her scholarship has been presented nationally and internationally, influencing corporate law discourse.