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

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