The Honourable Sir Anthony Mason AC KBE was a Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1972 to 1987 and Chief Justice from 1987 to 1995. 

He was Commonwealth Solicitor General from 1964 to 1969 and a Judge of the NSW Court of Appeal from 1969 to 1972. 

Until recently, he was Chancellor of UNSW, National Fellow at the Research School of Social Sciences at the ANU, a Judge of the Supreme Court of Fiji and President of the Solomon Islands Court of Appeal. 

In 1996-1997 he was Arthur Goodhart Professor in Legal Science at Cambridge University.

Since 2001 he has been Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the ANU College of Law.

Sir Anthony has been a non-permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal since 1997.

Sir Anthony holds Honorary Doctorates from the Australian National University and Sydney, Melbourne, Monash, Griffith and Deakin Universities, UNSW and the Universities of Oxford and Hong Kong.