In 1999, Rosalind Dixon was a third year Arts/Law student at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). She won the UNSW literary Prize in 1997. During her time at UNSW, she was Vice-President of the UNSW Law Society, student representative to the Faculty, editor of Poetic Justice, President of the French Society, Vice- President of the UNSW Debating Society, Vice-President of the UNSW Amnesty International Society, and a member of the Executive Committee of the FEMsREA (Women in Law) student organisation. She graduated from UNSW with a BA (in government and economics) and her first law degree (with highest honours) in 2001.
Rosalind was an Associate to the Chief Justice of Australia, the Hon. Murray Gleeson, AC in 2002.
In 2004, she graduated from Harvard Law School as a Master of Laws (LLD). In 2008, she graduated from Harvard Law School again, as a Doctor of Juridicial Science (SJD).
In 2009, Rosalind was Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Law School in the United States.
Her story 'Devil at La Coupole' gained second place in the 1999 Union Literary Prize at UNSW.