Bromberg’s key law reform role
Justice Mordecai Bromberg has 'significant experience in the leadership of legal research and expertise across a broad range of practice areas".'
JUSTICE Mordecai Bromberg, a former St Kilda footballer, has become president of the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) for a five-year term beginning on July 10.
Born in Israel in 1959, Bromberg arrived in Australia in 1967 and was educated at Brighton Road State School, Elsternwick State School, Elwood College and Brighton Grammar School. He graduated with a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Laws from Monash University.
After playing junior Australian Rules football at Brighton East, Bromberg began playing for St Kilda Football Club in the Victorian Football League under-19s. Combining football with his law studies, he made his seniors debut in the first round of the 1978 VFL season against Fitzroy.
Bromberg was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria and the Supreme Court of NSW in 1984. He was admitted to the Victorian Bar in 1988, and appointed Senior Counsel in 2003.
He was president of the Australian Institute of Employment Rights from 2005, and has extensive practice in industrial and employment law, as well as constitutional, trade practices, administrative law and discrimination cases.
Bromberg now chairs the Advisory Board of the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law at the University of Melbourne. He was appointed to the Federal Court of Australia in 2009.
Congratulating Bromberg, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus noted the judge “has significant experience in the leadership of legal research and expertise across a broad range of practice areas”.
Dreyfus paid tribute to Justice Mark Moshinsky for his service as ALRC acting president. Moshinsky will remain an ALRC part-time commissioner.
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