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==Notable Achievements== | ==Notable Achievements== | ||
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| − | Retired judge, jurist, and academic who is a former Justice of the High Court of Australia, serving from 1996 to 2009. | + | Retired judge, jurist, lawyer and academic who is a former Justice of the High Court of Australia, serving from 1996 to 2009. Chancellor of Macquarie University in Sydney (1984-93). World Health Organisation’s Global Commission on AIDS (1988-92); President of the International Commission of Jurists, Geneva (1995-8); as UN Special Representative Human Rights in Cambodia (1993-6); a member of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee (1995-2005); a member of the High Commissioner for Human Rights’ Judicial Reference Group (2007-) and a member of the UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Human Rights. Editor-in-Chief of 'The Laws of Australia'. Author of his autobiography, 'A Private Life' (2011). |
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| + | ==Further Reading/Research== | ||
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| + | * http://www.michaelkirby.com.au/ | ||
| + | * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLCEvUgQa9A | ||
| + | * http://www.independentaustralia.net/art/art-display/a-private-life-with-michael-kirby,3784 | ||
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Revision as of 15:43, 19 January 2014
Contents
Country
Australia
Birth - Death
1939 -
Occupation
Law
Notable Achievements
Order of Australia
Description
Retired judge, jurist, lawyer and academic who is a former Justice of the High Court of Australia, serving from 1996 to 2009. Chancellor of Macquarie University in Sydney (1984-93). World Health Organisation’s Global Commission on AIDS (1988-92); President of the International Commission of Jurists, Geneva (1995-8); as UN Special Representative Human Rights in Cambodia (1993-6); a member of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee (1995-2005); a member of the High Commissioner for Human Rights’ Judicial Reference Group (2007-) and a member of the UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Human Rights. Editor-in-Chief of 'The Laws of Australia'. Author of his autobiography, 'A Private Life' (2011).
