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Ron McCallum was born on 8 October, 1948 in Australia, is an Australian legal academic. Discover Ron McCallum's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

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Age 75 years old
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Born 8 October, 1948
Birthday 8 October
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1948

Ronald Clive McCallum AO (born 8 October 1948 ) is an Australian legal academic.

He is an expert in labour law, and has served as a professor and dean of law at the University of Sydney.

He is the first totally blind person to be appointed to a full professorship in any subject at any university in Australia or New Zealand, as well as the first to become a Dean of Law in these countries.

He chaired the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Geneva.

Ron McCallum was born in Melbourne, ten weeks premature and weighing only three pounds.

He was diagnosed with retrolental fibroplasia.

At the time, treating this required placing the baby in a humidicrib with uncontrolled oxygen; while this prevented McCallum from dying, it meant that he permanently lost his sight.

His father, Patrick McCallum, who had post-traumatic stress due to his experiences in World War II, died during McCallum's childhood.

He was raised by his mother, Edna McCallum, along with his two brothers in the Melbourne suburb of Hampton, in relatively poor conditions.

He attended schools for the blind, where it became apparent that he was intellectually gifted.

His last four years of schooling were spent at St Bede's College in Mentone.

The only member of his family to finish Year 12, McCallum achieved outstanding results, and was accepted to study law at Monash University.

Though he had originally planned to be a history teacher, he was encouraged by his mother to try law for a year.

He studied via other students reading aloud to him or by listening to tapes.

While at university, McCallum studied labour law.

He has said that, within the first few weeks of the course, "suddenly the law made sense and my life made sense".

1970

He graduated from Monash Law School with a Bachelor of Jurisprudence in 1970, and a Bachelor of Laws in 1972.

1974

He later pursued graduate studies in Canada at the Queen's University Faculty of Law, earning his LL.M. in 1974.

Upon graduating, he went into academia, becoming a law lecturer at Monash.

He became increasingly well known for his work on labour law, and has published 10 books on the topic, as well as numerous chapters, journal articles and papers.

He was invited to teach at Osgoode Hall Law School in Canada and Duke University in the United States.

While in North America, he was appointed to the National Academy of Arbitrators.

In this role, he has participated in five worldwide comparative labour law studies which have been published in what is now titled the Comparative Labour Law and Policy Journal.

1993

In January 1993, he was appointed the foundation Blake Dawson Waldron Professor of Industrial Law at Sydney University.

Nine years later, he commenced a five-year term as Dean of Law.

McCallum is the first totally blind person to be appointed by any university in Australasia to a full professorship in any field or as Dean of Law.

McCallum is the inaugural president of the Australian Labour Law Association, and the Asian regional vice-president of the International Society for Labour and Social Security Law.

He has also done extensive work for the blind as the Chair of Radio for the Print Handicapped of New South Wales Co-operative Ltd, a company that operates radio 2RPH, which reads newspapers and magazines for blind and for other print disabled listeners over the air.

2003

Ron was on the Board of the former Royal Blind Society, and on the Board of Radio 2RPH, of which he was its chair from 2003 to 2011.

2005

McCallum made headlines in 2005 by his criticism of John Howard's government's WorkChoices legislation, a policy he claimed was fundamentally flawed.

2006

Since 2006, he has been a member of the Board of Vision Australia Pty Ltd. He has received a Centenary Medal for his work, and in 2006 was made an Officer in the Order of Australia.

Ron has served on the Board of Vision Australia since 2006, predominantly as deputy chair.

2007

McCallum retired from his position as Dean of Sydney Law School in 2007.

However he has continued working at the Law School in his position of Professor of Labour Law.

2008

In 2008, McCallum was elected to the first Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of the United Nations which monitors compliance with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

2009

In February 2009, he was appointed inaugural Rapporteur to the Convention and in October was elected chair of the committee.

2010

He was reelected to the Committee in 2010 and remains as chair.

McCallum has been a Don't DIS my ABILITY ambassador for four years.

On 7 December 2010, McCallum commenced his consultancy at HWL Ebsworth.

2011

On 20 December 2011, McCallum was announced, along with Reserve Bank Board Member John Edwards and former Federal Court Judge Michael Moore, to conduct an official review of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth).