Rate My Professor Hugh Finn

Finn's research specializations encompass environmental law and policy, animal welfare law, legal and policy frameworks for climate change and wildlife conservation, and regulatory mechanisms for human activities impacting wild animals, including land clearing and bycatch of marine mammals in commercial fisheries. His key publications include 'A stochastic model for estimating sustainable limits to wildlife removals' (Conservation Biology, 2022, with O. Manlik et al.); 'The defamatory potential of ad hominem criticism: guidance for advocacy in public forums' (2018); 'The invisible harm: land clearing is an issue of animal welfare' (Wildlife Research, 2017, with N. Stephens); 'Successional changes in feeding activity by threatened cockatoos in revegetated mine sites' (2016); 'Reduced Detection of Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in an Inner Harbour Channel During Pile Driving Activities' (2015); 'Landscape position predicts distribution of eucalypt feed trees for threatened black-cockatoos in the northern jarrah forest, Western Australia' (2011); and contributions to journals such as Frontiers in Marine Science and Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. Finn has participated in public discussions on environmental policy and climate action.