Monday, 10 November 2008, 4:07 pm Press Release: LawFuel
Chris Finlayson: The Next Attorney General? LawFuel
- The Law Jobs and News Wire An
intellectual with a solid law background and an ambition to
achieve his dream for shaping New Zealand
law
Chris Finlayson, the likely next Attorney
General under the new Key Government, has risen rapidly
through the National Party ranks and will likely place a
significant part in shaping legal developments in the years
ahead.
A former Bell Gully partner, who left for the Bar
in 2003, Finlayson has considerable experience in the Treaty
settlements area and is on record as saying he would move to
appoint “more powerful” negotiators to deal with
iwi.
He has also been National’s shadow Arts and Culture
Minister, another portfolio he will doubtless
collect.
Finlayson has been National's shadow Attorney
General, an office held by Labour's deputy prime minister
the non-lawyer Michael Cullen.
Finlayson grew up in
Wellington, and was educated at St. Patrick's College, where
he was head prefect. Finlayson graduated with a BA in Latin
and French and a Masters Degree in Law LLM) from Victoria
University. He has taught civil procedure for LLB, conflict
of laws both for LLB and for LLM, intellectual property for
LLB (Hons) and ethics for LLB.
He chaired Creative New
Zealand's Arts Board from 1998 to 2001, and is currently a
trustee of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
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