Kerry is the Director of a consultancy business that provides strategic advice to small and medium sized businesses, particularly in relation to their government interaction. After graduating, she became a solicitor in private practice, before lecturing at the College of Law. In 1991 she was elected to the NSW Parliament. She was the first female president of the Sydney University Law Society.

James is host of ABC TV's The New Inventors and Evenings on ABC Radio. In 1991, he began his career as a corporate lawyer, but switched to criminal law and worked for Legal Aid until 1999. During the 1990s, he also did stand-up comedy.

Geoff is a foreign correspondent covering events across Asia and the Middle East for the last ten years for ABC TV's Foreign Correspondent. While he was a student at the University of Sydney, he edited Honi Soit and Polemic.

After graduating from Sydney Law School in 2007, Natasha moved to Pakistan to undertake a three month internship with the Office of the United Nations High commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She was then offered a position as a Child Protection Officer with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). She spent a year visiting prisons around Pakistan to inspect the conditions for women and children, and working with the government towards legislative and policy reform in areas including juvenile justice, human trafficking, child labour and domestic violence.

Justice Evatt practised law in Australia and England and worked in the English Law Commission before returning to Australia in 1973 to take up a position as a Deputy President of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. She chaired a Royal Commission on Human Relationships before being appointed Chief Judge of the Family Court of Australia in 1976. Later, she was President of the Australian Law Reform Commission. From 1984 to 1992, she was a member of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, and chaired that committee from 1989 to 1991. From 1993 to 2000, she was a member of the UN Human Rights Committee, was a Judge of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal from 1998 to 2006, and in 2003 became a Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists.

Justice Robertson has worked as solicitor, judge, and journalist. He became a barrister in 1973 and a QC in 1988. He is well known for acting as the defence in such English criminal trials as Oz, Gay News, the ABC Trial, The Romans in Britain, Randle & Pottle, the Brighton  bombing, Salman Rushdie, and Matrix Churchill. He has appeared before the European Court of Human Rights and sat as an appeal judge at the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone until 2007. In 2006 he received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Sydney. Over a 20-year period, Justice Robertson sporadically hosted Geoffrey Robertson's Hypotheticals, an Australian television series that invites notable people to discuss contemporary issues in a hypothetical situation. He is the founder and head of Doughty Street Chambers and serves as a Master of the Bench at the Middle Temple.

Jim Hanna (BA/LLB 1995)

Since graduation Jim has worked for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He completed the following postings with DFAT after having undergone Arabic Language training in Cairo in 1997-98: Saudi Arabia (Third Secretary) 1999-2000; Lebanon (Second Secretary) 2000-2003; Iraq (First Secretary) 2003-2004. Jim is now working with Kane Developments in Sydney.

Russell Trood

Graduated Bachelor of Laws (Sydney) in 1972. Following a short period in legal practice in Sydney in 1978 he undertook a Master of Science (Economics) majoring in Strategic Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He then undertook further graduate studies in International Relations at Dalhousie University, completing a PhD in 1989. Since then Dr Trood has held teaching positions at the Australian National University and Griffith University specialising in Australian foreign policy and Asia Pacific security. Prior to his election to the Senate he was Associate Professor of International Relations in the Department of International Business and Asian Studies at Griffith University.

Azadeh Dastyari BA (Syd) 2001; LLB (Syd) 2003)

Throughout her time at Sydney University, Azadeh has been involved in community work, both within the University of Sydney and in the wider society. In 2000 she served as the University of Sydney's Ethnic Affairs Officer and was part of the Iranian community's Social Justice Committee. During her time at law school, Azadeh was also a regular volunteer at the Redfern Legal Centre, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre, as well as working as a researcher at the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC). She has also worked as researcher at the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.

She is one of the founders of the Refugee Advocacy Volunteer Network (RAVN), which is a collection of law students who undertake casework on behalf of refugees under the supervision of volunteer lawyers.