Table of Contents

The Australian Constitution in retrospect and prospect
The Hon Sir Anthony Mason
Lawyers, historians and Federation history
Mr John Waugh
The acquisition of independence
Professor George Winterton
The Constitution and the people
Justice Robert French
Changing attitudes to federalism and its purpose
Professor Leslie Zines
Internationalisation of rights and the Constitution
Mr D F Jackson QC
National Science and Industry Policy - balancing the centrifugal tendency
Professor John W White
The executive - a common law understanding of legal reform and responsibility
Mr Christos Mantziaris
Australian constitutional law in a global era
Mr Brian Opeskin
Globalisation of the Constitution - the impact of international norms
Professor George Williams
Future prospects of the Australian Constitution
Professor Cheryl Saunders
The Age of Constitutions
Professor Thomas Fleiner
Table of Cases/ Table of Statutes/ Index

Reviews

This is a collection of essays by a distinguished list of contributors ... It is part of an innovative series from Federation Press ... It makes a very interesting read for anyone with even the slightest interest in our constitutional law and history. It is also important that we keep debating for our own time the fundamental issues it discusses. - Law Institute Journal (Victoria), March 2004 Government agencies already operate subject to judicial review of certain of their decisions but as Christos Mantziaris points out in his impressively researched and argued discussion, they are always looking for new ways to avoid scrutiny ... Anyone wanting an update in constitutional law will find this an invaluable work. It is a sobering thought that at least half of the 300 cases cited here have been decided in the last 20 years, and perhaps a quarter in the last 10 years. Although not as fluid as, say, tax law, constitutional law does not stand still and all lawyers need to have a sense of it. - Law Society Journal (NSW), September 2003