Professor Justice Paul Finn

By Lesley Dingle and Daniel Bates

Finn, Professor Justice Paul Desmond (1946-2023) (b. 22nd April 1946, Brisbane)

Some Career Highlights

• 1964-67 BA, University of Queensland
• 1969 LLB, Virgil Power Prize and John Hughes Wilkinson Prize, University of Queensland
• 1971 LLM, University of London
• 1971-1975 PhD, Cantab, Gonville & Caius College, Tapp Scholar, Yorke Prize Essayist
• 1980 Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge
• 1990 Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, Australia
• 1995 Visiting Fellow Commoner, Trinity College, Cambridge
• 2008 LLD (Hon), Flinders University
• 2014 LLD (Hon), University of Queensland

Australian Appointments

• University of Queensland, Law Faculty
  • 1975-1976 Senior Lecturer
• Australian National University, Law Faculty
  • 1977-1982 Senior Lecturer
  • 1982-1988 Reader in Law
  • 1988 Professor of Law, Research School of Social Science
  • 1988-1995 Head, Department of Law and Division of Philosophy and Law
• Judge of the Federal Court of Australia
  • 1995-2012

Other Appointments

• 1997 Judicial Fellow, Flinders University, South Australia
• 1998-2003 Member, UNIDROIT’s Working Group, Principles of International & 2006 onwards Commercial Contract
• 2006 Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne

Additional Materials

• "Justice Paul Desmond Finn: an Australian Dimension to the Cambridge Eminent Scholars Archive" (2011) 19 (2) Australian Law Librarian 92 – 100  (SSRN)
• "Thoughts on the History of Law and Governance Down Under: An Interview with Judge Paul Desmond Finn" (2011) 17 (1) Legal History and Rare Books Newsletter of the AALL