Dr Hugh Finn is a Lecturer in the Curtin Law School and a Research Fellow in the School of Design and the Built Environment.

Within the law school, he lectures in Administrative Law and Environmental Law and Policy.

Hugh is the Technical Lead for the Certification pathway in the RACE for 2030 Net Zero Precincts program.

Hugh's research interests are in animal law, carbon management in the built environment, environmental law and policy, and teaching practice. He engages with law reform in Western Australia and nationally, and has given evidence at Senate and State parliamentary committee hearings.

Legal and policy frameworks for climate change, wildlife conservation and decarbonisation are a particular research focus. Hugh has worked previously as a wildlife biologist, and has conducted field research with marine mammals and black cockatoos.

He completed his PhD in Biological Sciences at Murdoch University in 2005. His PhD work addressed the conservation biology of bottlenose dolphins around Perth.

Hugh was the chairperson of the Environmental Defender's Office of Western Australia (Inc) in 2019 and 2020.

He has worked previously in research and academic roles at Murdoch University, as a coordinator for a citizen science project at Birdlife Australia, and as an orderly and associate at the Supreme Court of Western Australia.