Editing Michael Kirby (judge) (section)

{{Short description|Australian jurist and academic}}
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{{Use Australian English|date=May 2018}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|honorific-prefix = [[The Honourable]]
|name = Michael Kirby
|honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AC|CMG|size=100%}}
| image  = The Hon Michael D. Kirby AC CMG (cropped).jpg
| office      = [[List of Justices of the High Court of Australia|Justice of the High Court of Australia]]
| appointer   = [[Bill Hayden]]
| nominator   = [[Paul Keating]]
| term_start  = 6 February 1996
| term_end    = 2 February 2009
| predecessor = [[William Deane|Sir William Deane]]
| successor   = [[Virginia Bell (judge)|Virginia Bell]]
| office1     = [[Chancellor (education)|Chancellor]] of [[Macquarie University]]
| predecessor1 = Percy Partridge
| successor1  = [[Tim Besley (public servant)|Tim Besley]]
| term_start1 = 1984
| term_end1   = 1993
| occupation  = [[Arbitrator]], [[Mediation|Mediator]], [[United Nations|UN Official]]
| birth_name  = Michael Donald Kirby
| birth_date  = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1939|03|18}}
| birth_place = [[Sydney]], [[New South Wales]], Australia
| nationality = Australian
| spouse      = Johan van Vloten
| alma_mater = [[University of Sydney]] 
| children    =
}}
'''Michael Donald Kirby''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AC|CMG}} (born 18 March 1939) is an Australian [[jurist]] and academic who is a former Justice of the [[High Court of Australia]], serving from 1996 to 2009.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|title=Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG|url=https://www.alrc.gov.au/about/president/past-presidents/hon-michael-kirby-ac-cmg/|access-date=2020-10-09|website=ALRC}}</ref> He has remained active in retirement; in May 2013 he was appointed by the [[United Nations Human Rights Council]] to lead an [[Report of the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea|inquiry into human rights abuses in North Korea]], which reported in February 2014.