Professor Richard Fox

Emeritus Professor
LLB, Dip.Criminology, LLM (1st Class), LLD,

Professional Profile

Emeritus Professor Richard Fox specialises in the law of criminal procedure, the law relating to sentencing of offenders, and Australian federal criminal justice. He holds a Doctor of Laws from Monash University and a Master of Laws and Diploma of Criminology from Melbourne University.

Following his retirement in March 2006 he was appointed an Emeritus Professor of the University and has continued to have a teaching association with the Faculty of Law.

He was formerly an Associate Professor at the Centre of Criminology and the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, Canada and has been a Fulbright Fellow and Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law, Case University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He has been a consultant to the Law Reform Commission of Canada, the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Australian Law Reform Commission and the Victorian Law Reform Commission, the Victorian Department of Justice and is a foundation member of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology.

Between 1998 and 2011 he was Chairman of the Board of Management of the Australian Institute of Criminology. 

In June 2008 Professor Fox was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for his services to law and legal education.

Areas of Expertise

Sentencing
Criminal Procedure

Teaching Commitments

Sentencing (Sum/T1) (2012) Postgraduate program (LAW7043)