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词条 Paul Finn (judge)
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  1. Early life and education

  2. Academic career

  3. Legal career

  4. References

{{Use Australian English|date=May 2018}}{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2018}}Paul Desmond Finn (born 22 April 1946) is an Australian academic jurist and former judge of the Federal Court of Australia.[1]

Early life and education

Finn was born on 22 April 1946 in Brisbane. His father died when Finn was a child.[2] He completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Queensland, majoring in literature.[2] Although his father and stepfather were both lawyers, Finn was never pressured into following them into the legal profession; in an interview in 2010, he stated: "I did law by default, probably a lack of imagination".[2]

He later completed a PhD at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, England,[1] where he had been persuaded to study by Leonard Sealy, Emeritus Professor of Corporate Law, who learned through a mutual acquaintance that Finn was interested in conducting research for a book on fiduciaries.[2] Finn won the Yorke Prize in his final year, and this treatise formed the basis of Finn's 1977 book Fiduciary Obligations.[2]

Academic career

After completing his doctorate, Finn joined the Law Faculty at the University of Queensland as a senior lecturer. Two years later, he moved to the Australian National University, where he remained until 1995. He became a Professor of Law in 1988 and was appointed Head of the Department of Law in the same year.[1]

Finn has authored and edited a number of books and journal articles, including Law and Government in Colonial Australia, which was published in 1987 by Oxford University Press. He has also served on the editorial boards of Public Law Review, the University of Queensland Law Journal, the Australian Journal of Legal History and Uniform Law Review.[1]

In 2008, he was awarded an honorary degree in law from Flinders University.[1]

Legal career

Finn was appointed a judge of the Federal Court of Australia in 1995.[1] He later reflected that this appointment was for him "wholly unexpected"[3] given his experience: it is unusual for an individual with an academic background to be appointed a judge,[4] and he had not been in a courtroom for 25 years.[2]

He provided valuable advice to the 1992 WA Inc Royal Commission[5] on "the manner in which the issues confronting this Commission have been dealt with elsewhere in Australia and in other Western democracies".

Finn retired as a judge in 2012.[6]

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=Professor Justice Paul Finn|url=http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent_scholars/professor_justice_paul_finn.php|work=Eminent Scholars Archive|publisher=University of Cambridge|accessdate=7 March 2012|author=Lesley Dingle|author2=Daniel Bates|archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/65zDKyE2k|archivedate=7 March 2012}}
2. ^{{cite web|title=Conversations with Justice Paul Finn PhD - First Interview: 23 November 2010|url=http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/Media/Eminent%20Scholars%20Archive%20Transcripts/paul_finn_first_interview_23_nov_2010.pdf|work=Eminent Scholars Archive|publisher=Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge|accessdate=7 March 2012|archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/65zMPKzhR|archivedate=7 March 2012}}
3. ^{{cite journal|title=Law and History in Four Parts|journal=Australia & New Zealand Law & History e-Journal|year=2005|url=http://www.anzlhsejournal.auckland.ac.nz/pdfs_2005/Finn.pdf|accessdate=8 March 2012|page=239}}
4. ^{{cite book|author=Justin T. Gleeson|title=Rediscovering rhetoric: law, language, and the practice of persuasion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N8xsehHjHzcC&pg=PA196|accessdate=8 March 2012|year=2008|publisher=Federation Press|isbn=978-1-86287-705-4|pages=195–196}}
5. ^WA Inc Royal Commission Report Part II (final) 12 November 1992, at State Law Publisher, Government of WA, p.19 (folio xviii)
6. ^http://www.fedcourt.gov.au/about/judges/former-judges
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