Interview with The Hon. Justice Marcus Einfeld, judge and Queen's Counsel / interviewer, Frank Heimans.

2002

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Einfeld, Marcus, -- 1938-.

Austcare.

Australia. -- Federal Court.

Australia. -- Human Rights Commission.

Australian Paralympic Federation.

International Commission of Jurists. -- Australian Section.

Judges -- Australia.

Lawyers -- Australia.

In this interview Justice Einfeld talks about his life as a barrister, his views of past and current Australian political policy and practice, his role in persuading the Soviet government to allow the Jews of Russia to emigrate; his quest to seek social justice for all Australians, particularly refugees and Indigenous people.

Compact disc.

No transcript available.

Access open for research, personal copies and public use.

Recorded on June 25, 2002 and June 27, 2002 at Woollahra, N.S.W.

Justice Marcus Einfeld was born in Sydney, 1938. He is and has been at various times a judge of the Federal Court of Australia, Foundation Chairman of the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, National Vice-President of the Australian section of the International Commission of Jurists, a Judge of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, UNICEF Ambassador for Children, Chairman of the Paralympic Federation and Austcare's Ambassador for Refugees. He was also active in the campaign for East Timor independence. Justice Einfeld is the author of several published works on the law, human rights, refugees, democracy in Burma and Tibet, etc.

Oral History Collection.

6 sound discs (ca. 320 min.): digital.