Paul Desmond Finn (22 April 1946 – 27 September 2023) was an Australian academic jurist and judge of the Federal Court of Australia.
[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 and Caius College, Cambridge, England,[1][2] Finn won the Yorke Prize in his final year, and this treatise formed the basis of Finn's 1977 book Fiduciary Obligations.
[2] After completing his doctorate, Finn joined the Law Faculty at the University of Queensland as a senior lecturer.
[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.