He then served as Crown Counsel to the Attorney-General for Victoria from 1992 until 1995, briefly returning to his previous post before being appointed professor of law at Notre Dame University in Fremantle, Western Australia, in 1996.
[4] On 8 April 2020, the ACU chancellor, John Fahey, announced Craven's planned retirement, to become effective in January 2021.
[3][7] He was a leading advocate of republicanism in the leadup to the (eventually unsuccessful) 1999 referendum on the proposed change in Australia from being a constitutional monarchy to a republic.
He was a member of the Commonwealth Higher Education Standards Panel (HESP) and the lead vice-chancellor for Universities Australia on quality and regulation.
[3] In February 2019, following the 2018 trial and conviction of Cardinal George Pell for child abuse, Craven provided one of 10 positive character references for the purposes of the sentencing hearing.