John Finnis

teaches jurisprudence and constitutional Law. He has been Professor of Law & Legal Philosophy since 1989, and a law tutor at University College since 1966. From 1972 to 1989 he was Rhodes Reader in the Laws of the British Commonwealth and the United States.

He has taught law at University of Adelaide, the University of Malawi, Boston College, and Notre Dame University in Indiana, where he visits regularly. He has advised a number of Australian governments on federal-State and UK-Australia constitutional relations, and at the English Bar he has argued appeals in the Divisional Court and the Court of Appeal.

A Fellow of the British Academy, he wrote and annually updates the title on constitutional laws of the Commonwealth in Halsbury’s Laws of England (4th ed.). He also wrote Natural Law and Natural Rights (OUP, Clarendon Law Series, 1980, 9th impression 1996); Fundamentals of Ethics (OUP & Georgetown UP, 1983); Nuclear Deterrence, Morality, and Realism (OUP, 1987); Moral Absolutes (CUAP, 1991); and Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory (OUP, 1998).

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