Constituting Law

Justin T Gleeson SC was admitted to the New South Wales Bar in 1989, having previously worked as a solicitor for 4 years at Freehill, Hollingdale & Page. He graduated from Sydney University with a BA/LLB First Class Honours, winning the University Medal in 1983, and with a BCL from Oxford in 1985. He took silk in 2000. He was editor of Bar News between 2000 and 2004. While in full time practice at the bar, specialising in areas of appellate, constitutional and commercial law, he has retained an interest in Roman Law, the classics, history and philosophy. His publications include, aaC–A”The Anti-Suit InjunctionaaC–Au (1997) 71 ALJ 995 (co-authored with Dr AS Bell) and aaC–A”Administrative Law Meets the Regulatory Agencies aaC–” Tournament of the IncompatibleaaC–Au (2005) 46 AIAL Forum 28. Ruth C A Higgins was admitted to the New South Wales Bar in 2006, having practised at Gilbert + Tobin in Sydney and Slaughter & May in London. She graduated with first class honours in law from Glasgow University in 1995, as joint winner of the Dr John MacCormick Prize for the Most Distinguished Graduate in Law, and winner of the Bennet Miller Prize for Private Law. Between 1996 and 2000, she undertook her DPhil at Balliol College, Oxford, on a Snell Scholarship. During this period, she held a lectureship in law at Corpus Christi College, tutoring in Jurisprudence, Contract, Tort and Introduction to Laws, and spent time as a visiting scholar at Columbia University, New York. Her publications include The Moral Limits of Law: Obedience, Respect, and Legitimacy (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). She is a member of the Bar Council of New South Wales and the Australian Section of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy.