List of law schools attended by Australian High Court Justices

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 six Australian universities, two universities in the United Kingdom, three in the United States of America and one Barristers' Admission Board.

Australia

Australian National University

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

Murdoch University

• Murdoch University – 1 alumnus
  1. James Edelman – also completed a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Laws from UWA and a doctorate from Oxford

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 Oxford and a Bachelor of Commerce from Murdoch

United Kingdom

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

United States

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

See also

• List of universities in Australia
• List of law schools in Australia
• Tertiary education in Australia