By Lesley Dingle and Daniel Bates
Finn, Professor Justice Paul Desmond (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, Flin (Hon)
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 – present
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
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