Protecting Rights Without a Bill of Rights: Institutional Performance and Reform in Australia - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754625583 ISBN 13: 9780754625582

Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co, 2006

Synopsis

This book focuses on the protection of human rights in Australia and includes international perspectives for the purpose of comparison and it provides an examination of how well Australian institutions, governments, legislatures, courts and tribunals have performed in protecting human rights in the absence of a Bill of Rights.

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About the Author

Tom Campbell is a Professorial Fellow in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University, Australia, and a former Dean of the Faculty of Law, Australian National University, Australia. Jeffrey Goldsworthy is Professor of Law at Monash University, Australia. He specialises in constitutional law, history, and theory, and legal philosophy. He is joint Editor, with Tom Campbell of Legal Interpretation in Democratic States (Ashgate, 2002) and Judicial Power, Democracy and Legal Positivism (Ashgate, 2000). Adrienne Stone is a Fellow in the Law Program at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Australia. She is interested in Australian and comparative constitutional law and theory, particularly in relation to freedom of speech. She is the author of many journal articles and book chapters.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754625583
• ISBN 13: 9780754625582
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 348
• Editor: Campbell Tom, Goldsworthy Jeffrey, Stone Adrienne