Vice-Chancellor and President
Deakin University
In January 2003, Professor Sally Walker commenced as Vice-Chancellor and President of Deakin University. Prior to that, she was Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Melbourne.
Professor Walker was educated at the Warrnambool High School and, after being awarded a boarding and tuition Scholarship, at Melbourne Girls' Grammar School. Professor Walker holds the degrees of Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and Master of Laws from the University of Melbourne. She graduated with First Class Honours in her Law degree; she was placed first in her graduating class and was awarded the Supreme Court Prize, the Anna Brennan Memorial Prize and the inaugural Joan Rosanove Memorial Prize.
From 1978-March 1979, Professor Walker was an Associate to Justice Aickin of the High Court of Australia. In 1979 she worked as a Solicitor and, in 1980, an Associate Partner with Gillotts, Solicitors.
Professor Walker was Hearn Professor of Law, President of the Academic Board and a Pro-Vice Chancellor at the University of Melbourne. Professor Walker's teaching experience includes teaching Public Law, Commercial Law and Media Law. She developed a Graduate Diploma in Media, Communications and Information Technology Law.
Professor Walker has published widely in the field of Media Law. She is the author of the Law of Journalism in Australia which is published by the Law Book Company, Media Law: Commentary and Materials, (LBC 2000) and editor and principal author of the Communications Title for The Laws of Australia. She is also the joint author of The Law of Securities (5th edition) with Professor E I Sykes.
Professor Walker has undertaken a broad range of professional activities ranging from accepting invitations to sit on policy-making bodies, such as the Victorian Press Ownership Inquiry, Law Council of Australia committees and the boards of organisations such as the Communications and Media Law Association. In July 1990, Professor Walker was appointed by the Victorian Attorney-General to be the only lawyer of a Working Party inquiring into the concentration of ownership of the print media in Victoria. She was the first Academic Secretary of the Victorian Attorney-General's Law Reform Advisory Council, a position she held from April 1993-April 1995.
