The Hon Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG
Michael
Kirby, who delivered the 2007 Hawke Lecture, is a Justice of the High Court
of Australia. He has served on the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration
Commission, as Foundation Chairman of the Australian Law Reform Commission,
as a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia (to which he was appointed by
the Hawke Government), as President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal
and of the Solomon Islands Court of Appeal and, since 1996, on the High
Court.
He has been engaged in numerous national and international activities,
including as President of the International Commission of Jurists and as
Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for
Human Rights in Cambodia.
In 1990 he was awarded the Australian Human Rights Medal. In 1998
UNESCO, Paris named him as Laureate of the UNESCO Prize for Human Rights
Education.