The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia, 1st Edition, 9780521759182
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Unpack Australia’s Constitution: History, principles, case law, and modern interpretations.

The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia, 1st Edition

history, principle and interpretation

$145.77

  • Paperback

    704 pages

  • Release Date

    11 September 2015

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Summary

The Australian Constitution: A Deep Dive

The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia offers an original, rigorous, and accessible examination of Australian constitutional jurisprudence.

It begins by exploring the historical and intellectual context surrounding the Constitution’s creation, closely examining its text, structure, principles, and purposes. The book then unpacks and critically analyzes the High Court’s interpretation of the Constitution, following its own l…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780521759182
ISBN-10:0521759188
Author:Nicholas Aroney, Peter Gerangelos, James Stellios, Sarah Murray
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Imprint:Cambridge University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:704
Edition:1st
Release Date:11 September 2015
Weight:1.02kg
Dimensions:228mm x 152mm x 35mm
About The Author

Nicholas Aroney

Nicholas Aroney is a Professor of Constitutional Law and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law, in the TC Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland.

Peter Gerangelos is an Associate Professor of Law in the University of Sydney and was Associate Dean of the Faculty of Law in 2006-2007. Formerly he was Principal Solicitor in the Office of the Australian Government Solicitor and recipient of the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Post-Graduate Award in 1996.

Sarah Murray is an Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia where she teaches Constitutional Law and researches in the areas of Public Law and legal institutional change. She is the Western Australian Convenor and a co-opted Council Member of the Australian Association of Constitutional Law and a co-Convenor of the Electoral Regulation and Research Network. Her Ph.D. thesis was awarded the 2011 Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal for Law by Monash University and was published as a monograph in 2014. She is a co-author of Winterton’s Australian Federal Constitutional Law (2014) and has also published public law scholarship across a range of Australian and international journals.

James Stellios is an Associate Professor at the Australian National University College of Law where he teaches public law. His primary research interest is constitutional law, and he has published widely in that field.

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