Christopher John Roper AM (born 25 December 1944) is an Australian lawyer and educator. He is the Director of the St James’ Institute. He is a former Adjunct Professor of the

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, a former Director of the College of Law Sydney and a former Professor of the College of Law England and Wales.Who's Who in Australia (Crown Content Melb, 2007) pp 1769: Roper, Christoper John (1944 – )

Education

Roper attended

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(1955-1961)Newington College Register of Past Students 1863-1998 (Syd, 1999) pp54 and is an arts and law graduate of the

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. He has an honours master's degree in education. Later Roper studied theology at

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Legal career

After working as a lawyer, Roper began a career in professional legal education. He was the Executive Director of the Leo Cussen Institute in Melbourne and later the Director of the College of Law in Sydney. After working as the Director of Education of

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he became the first Director of The Centre for Legal Education. Roper then returned to the College of Law and developed an alliance between the Colleges of Law in England, Australia and New Zealand.

Honours

In the

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Honours List of 1999, Roper was made a Member of the

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in the General Division "for service to the development of continuing legal education".

References

1944 births Living people University of Sydney alumni People educated at Newington College People educated at Trinity College (University of Melbourne) Members of the Order of Australia 20th-century Australian lawyers Australian educators Legal educators {{Australia-law-bio-stub