and is now an emeritus professor of law. During his term as Dean, he introduced a full-time law degree and a series of joint programmes with other disciplines including computing and science. He also proposed significant changes to Australian university and to Australian legal education, including: for the first time in an Australian public university, twelve months teaching through Summer and Winter programmes; the introduction of a range of graduate programmes for non-lawyers; the first Australian professional doctorate, the SJD; the first Australian university programmes in Alternative Dispute Resolution; the inclusion of periods of study at foreign universities as part of law and other programmes; the incorporation of Practical Legal training into the LL.B – “one-stop” legal education; a detailed proposal for the introduction of a US style Doctor Juris; strong support for the introduction of AUSTLII, based at UTS in a venture with UNSW, which gives open internet access to Australian statute and case law. He has been Second Vice-President and National President for Australia of the World Jurist Association, and was also president of the Federation of Australian Branches of the English Speaking Union. He was also a board member and former editor of the Australian Branch of the International Law Association. Regulator Flint was appointed head of the Australian Press Council in 1987 in succession to Hal Wootten. All previous chairmen had been former senior judges. As deputy chairman and chairman of the Council's Freedom of the Press Committee, Flint was seen as bringing the Council back from the brink after it divided over how to react to the takeover of Herald and Weekly Times by News Limited, precipitating the resignation of Wootten. Flint remained in the chairmanship until 1997. His contributions included streamlining the complaints process and enhancing the Council's role in defending freedom of the press, including filing, and appearing in, an amicus curiae brief to the High Court of Australia. He also succeeded in promoting the Council in the media and to the public, all within a tight budget. He requested that the usual honorarium be used for media research and other Council related purposes. From 1992 to 1996, he was Chairman of the Executive Council of the World Association of Press Councils. During 1998, he was invited by the Coalition Government to chair the Australian Broadcasting Authority, although the only political party he had previously belonged to was the Labor Party, where he