The Australian Women's Register

2 digital audio tapes (ca. 150 min.) Susan Crennan, QC and barrister, talks about her Irish Catholic background; schooling at St. Bernadette’s Primary, Ivanhoe and Our Lady of Mercy at Heidelberg; arts degree at Melbourne University, completion of law degree at Sydney University and admission to Bar in 1979. She then talks about her reasons for choosing law; moving to Melbourne; copyright and patent cases; work involved in after taking silk, such as the Tricontinental Royal Commission. Crennan then talks about her writings; committee work; difficulties involved in combining work as a barrister with family life and changes seen in the law. She then provides some biographical information about her great-great grandfather, Patrick Joseph Hogan, a student at the Royal Academy, and his art work.