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UNSW professors pay tribute to law school founder
UNSW professors pay tribute to law school founder Share
Several UNSW professors have paid tribute to a UNSW law school founder, who passed away last week.
Emeritus Professor Hal Wootten AC QC was the founding dean of the UNSW law school and passed away on 27 July at the age of 98. He also served as a commissioner on the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in the late 1980s to early 1990s and was a co-founder of the first Aboriginal Legal Service (ALS) in Redfern in 1970.
The Aboriginal Legal Service NSW/ACT has said that Professor Wootten will be fondly remembered for his insight, compassion, and his great legacy in helping establish the country’s first Aboriginal legal service.
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Emeritus Professor Hal Wootten passed away during the night of 27 July, leaving behind a world where the law can finally meet justice.
“A law school should have and communicate to its students a keen concern for those on whom the law bears harshly.”
These were the echoing words of Emeritus Professor John Halden Wootten AC QC that formed the guiding principle of the faculty since it first opened its doors on 1 March 1971.
Prof. Wootten joined UNSW as the founding Dean of the Faculty of Law & Justice along with 219 undergraduate students in its inaugural class.
“Although Prof. Wootten would have been 99 in December, I am sure his death will come as something of a shock to many. His energy, his undimmed interest in the state of the world and his constant example of the responsibilities we have to people facing adversity and injustice gave him a near immortal quality,” said Professor Andrew Lynch, Acting Dean of the Faculty of Law & Justice.