Gillian Triggs

Gillian Doreen Triggs (born 30 October 1945) is an Australian academic specialising in public international law with publications on World Trade Organization (WTO) disputes resolution, energy and resources law, law of the sea, territorial sovereignty, jurisdiction and immunity, international criminal law, international environmental law, and human rights. Triggs is the President of the Australian Human Rights Commission and was Acting Race Discrimination Commissioner from 30 July 2012 to 19 August 2013. She is an emeritus professor at the University of Sydney, where she was Dean of the Sydney Law School between 2007 and 2012.