The Honourable Dr Robyn Layton AO QC is an Adjunct Professor at the University of South Australia’s School of Law.
Dr Layton is a former Supreme Court Judge who has also served as a Judge in the South Australian Industrial Court and Commission and as a Deputy President of the Commonwealth Administrative Appeals Tribunal.  Dr Layton was also a member (and later the chair) of the Committee of Experts on Application of Conventions of the International Labour Office (ILO) in Geneva (1993-2008) and has since served as a consultant for the ILO providing judicial and general legal training on international labour standards in a number of countries. She has also worked as a consultant for the Asia Development Bank on a gender development poverty reduction project for women in Kazakhstan, Cambodia and the Philippines. Dr Layton was also involved in conducting workshops on Advocacy for law students at Delhi University and with the Bar in Delhi in 2013.  
She is Chair of the Advisory Council for the University of South Australia’s Australian Centre for Child Protection. She is Patron of a number of organisations including the Women’s Legal Services SA and the Australian Migrant Resource Centre. Her long involvement and commitment to human rights and social justice has seen her work as Chair of the South Australian Sex Discrimination Board and the Human Rights Committee of the Law Society of South Australia.
Currently,  Dr Layton’s co-authored textbook on Evidence Law is due to be published by Thomson Reuters in late 2016.