Dr Hugh Finn

Overview

Dr Hugh Finn is a Lecturer in the Curtin Law School and the school's Director of Learning and Teaching.

He currently lectures in Constitutional Law, Environmental Law and Policy, and other units, and co-coordinates the Legal Internship Program with Rosaline Tan. Hugh is the Curtin Law School representative for the Sustainability in Business Council in the Faculty of Business and Law at Curtin.

Hugh's reseach interests are in environmental law and policy and legal reasoning. He engages with law reform in Western Australia and nationally, and has given evidence at Senate and State parliamentary committee hearings.

Legal and policy frameworks for climate change and wildlife conservation are a particular research focus. Hugh has worked previously as a wildlife biologist, and has conducted field research with marine mammals and black cockatoos.

He completed his PhD in Biological Sciences at Murdoch University in 2005. His PhD work addressed the conservation biology of bottlenose dolphins around Perth.

Hugh is the current chairperson for the Environmental Defender's Office of Western Australia (Inc).

He has worked previously in research and academic roles at Murdoch University, as a coordinator for a citizen science project at Birdlife Australia, and as an associate at the Supreme Court of Western Australia.

Post Nominals

BA, LLB, PhD