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List of law schools attended by Australian High Court Justices

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There have been 48 men and five women who have been appointed as Justices of the High Court of Australia. Together, the judges are alumni of five Australian universities, two universities in the United Kingdom, three in the United States of America and one Barristers' Admission Board.

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Australian National University

  • Australian National University College of Law – 1 alumnus
    1. Stephen Gageler – also completed a Master of Laws from Harvard

    • University of Melbourne

  • Melbourne Law School – 13 alumni
    1. Isaac Isaacs
    2. H. B. Higgins
    3. Frank Gavan Duffy
    4. Hayden Starke
    5. Owen Dixon
    6. John Latham
    7. Wilfred Fullagar
    8. Douglas Menzies
    9. Ninian Stephen
    10. Keith Aickin
    11. Daryl Dawson – also completed a Master of Laws from Yale Law School
    12. Kenneth Hayne – also completed a Bachelor of Civil Law from Oxford
    13. Geoffrey Nettle – also completed a Bachelor of Civil Law from Oxford

    • University of Sydney

  • Sydney Law School – 18 alumni
    1. H. V. Evatt
    2. Edward McTiernan
    3. Dudley Williams
    4. Frank Kitto
    5. Alan Taylor
    6. Victor Windeyer
    7. Garfield Barwick
    8. Cyril Walsh
    9. Anthony Mason
    10. Kenneth Jacobs
    11. Lionel Murphy
    12. William Deane
    13. Mary Gaudron
    14. William Gummow
    15. Michael Kirby
    16. Murray Gleeson
    17. Susan Crennan
    18. Virginia Bell

    • University of Queensland

  • University of Queensland – 6 alumni
    1. Charles Powers
    2. William Webb
    3. Harry Gibbs
    4. Gerard Brennan
    5. Ian Callinan
    6. Patrick Keane – also completed a Bachelor of Civil Law from Oxford

    • University of Western Australia

  • University of Western Australia – 5 alumni
    1. Ronald Wilson – also completed a Master of Laws from the University of Pennsylvania
    2. John Toohey
    3. Robert French
    4. Michelle Gordon
    5. James Edelman – also completed a doctorate from University of Oxford and a Bachelor of Economics from Murdoch University

    • University of Cambridge

  • University of Cambridge – 2 alumni
    1. Adrian Knox
    2. Susan Kiefel

    • University of Oxford

  • University of Oxford – 5 alumni
    1. Dyson Heydon
    2. Patrick Keane
    3. Geoffrey Nettle
    4. Kenneth Hayne
    5. James Edelman

    • Harvard University

  • Harvard Law School – 1 alumnus
    1. Stephen Gageler

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • University of Pennsylvania – 1 alumnus
    1. Ronald Wilson

    • Yale University

  • Yale Law School – 1 alumnus
    1. Daryl Dawson

    • No formal law school

  • New South Wales Legal Profession Admission Board – 2 alumni
    1. Michael McHugh
    2. Susan Kiefel – also completed a Master of Laws from Cambridge

    • References

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