Rayfuse is mededirecteur van de International Law and Policy Group en van de Climate Change Law and Policy Initiative. Professor Rayfuse behaalde een bachelor in de rechten aan de Universiteit van Queens en een master in de rechten aan de Universiteit van Cambridge, waar ze de Clive Parry Prize voor International Law ontving. Haar doctorstitel behaalde zij aan de Universiteit Utrecht. Ze werkte als advocaat in Vancouver, Canada. Professor Rayfuse heeft veel gepubliceerd over onderwerpen als internationaal publiekrecht met de nadruk op maritiem recht, waaronder internationale wetten over visserij en internationaal milieurecht gerelateerd aan de zee en klimaatverandering.

In 2006 was Rosemary de eerste Australische vrouw die een poging deed van de Noordpool naar Canada te skiën om geld in te zamelen voor de rechtenfaculteit en om internationaal aandacht te vragen voor klimaatveranderingen.

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Rosemary Rayfuse is a professor of International Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales and conjoint professor of International Environmental Law at Lund University. She is the founder and former co-director of the International Law and Policy Group and of the Climate Change Law and Policy Initiative. Professor Rayfuse holds a Bachelor of Law from Queen's University, a Master of Law from the University of Cambridge, where she was awarded the Clive Parry Prize for International Law, and a PhD from the University of Utrecht. She also practiced law in Vancouver, Canada. Professor Rayfuse has published widely on numerous aspects of public international law, in particular on the law of the sea and issues relating to high seas governance. Her areas of expertise are Public International Law generally, including international humanitarian law, use of force, and international dispute settlement. However, she specializes in the law of the sea, international fisheries law and international environmental law particularly as it relates to the marine environment and to climate change.

In 2006, Rosemary Rayfuse became the first Australian woman to attempt to ski from the North Pole to Canada to raise money for the Law School and to raise awareness of the need for international and national regulatory responses to climate change.