Bob Baxt
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Robert Baxt Template:Post-nominals (27 June 1938 – 11 March 2018) was an Australian lawyer and a chairman of the Trade Practices Commission, dean of law at Monash University and a professorial fellow of the University of Melbourne.[1][2]
Early life
Baxt was born in Shanghai, China, raised in Australia, where his family had moved in 1947. He was educated at Newington College (1947–1955), commencing as a preparatory school student at Wyvern House,[3] and the University of Sydney, and did his LLM – Master of Laws – at Harvard Law School 1963–1964.
Legal career
Baxt was a partner of the Australian commercial law firm Freehills. He initially joined Freehills as a solicitor in 1965 before entering academia.[4] From 1980 to 1988, he was dean of the Monash University Faculty of Law. From 1991 to 2004, he was a partner at Allens Arthur Robinson. He rejoined Freehills in January 2005 and became an emeritus partner.
Baxt was involved in a number of Australian legal publications. He was the founder and then general editor of the Company and Securities Law Journal as well as the Australian Business Law Review.[5] He was also editor of the monthly newsletter on corporate regulation, The Baxt Report. In his time as an academic, he was also an editor of the Monash University Law Review.[6]
Honours
- Officer, Order of Australia 2003[7]
- Recipient, Centenary Medal 2001[8]
References
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- ↑ Who's Who in Australia (Crown Content Melb, 2007) pp 217: Baxt, Robert "Bob" (1938 – )
- ↑ Former Trade Practices Commission Chief Bob Baxt Dies Aged 79 The Australian
- ↑ Newington College Register of Past Students 1863–1998 (Syd, 1999) pp11
- ↑ Bob Baxt Herbert Smith Freehills
- ↑ Freehills – Article – Bob Baxt AO moves to Freehills Freehills
- ↑ Monash Law Review Template:Webarchive
- ↑ It's an Honour
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- People educated at Newington College
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- Officers of the Order of Australia
- Educators from Shanghai
- Chinese emigrants to Australia
- Harvard Law School alumni