Education
Mason graduated from the with degrees in Arts (1967) and law (1970).
The University of Sydney awarded him an honorary doctorate of laws in 2005.
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Career
Mason was admitted as a solicitor in 1970 and to the New South Wales Bar in 1972. He was appointed as a Queen"s Counsel (Queen's Counsel) in 1981. He became President of the Court of Appeal in 1997.
Mason was Chairman of the New South Wales Law Reform Commission from 1985-1987 and 1989-1990.
He was Solicitor-General of NSW from 1987-1997. Mason became President of the Children"s Medical Research Foundation in 1995.
Mason was sworn out of office on 30 May 2008. Mason has also been a justice of the Supreme Court of Fiji.
In 2006, he joined the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales as a Professorial Visiting Fellow.
He is also a Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School.
