Background
Baxt was born in Shanghai, China, and settled in Australia in 1947.
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Baxt was born in Shanghai, China, and settled in Australia in 1947.
He was educated at Newington College (1947-1955), commencing as a preparatory school student in Wyvern House, and the University of Sydney.
He initially joined Freehills as a solicitor in 1965 before entering academia. From 1980-1988, he was Dean of the Monash University Faculty of Law. He rejoined Freehills in January 2005 and is an emeritus partner.
Baxt is involved in a number of Australian legal publications.
He is also Editor of the monthly newsletter on corporate regulation, The Baxt Report. In his time as an academic, he was also an editor of the Monash University Law Review.