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Encounters with Constitutional Interpretation and Legal Education: Essays in Honour of Michael Coper

Encounters with Constitutional Interpretation and Legal Education: Essays in Honour of Michael Coper

Author: James Stellios
Publisher: The Federation Press
ISBN: 9781760021627
Published In: February 2018
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: Australia ? Disclaimer:
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What do constitutional interpretation and legal education have in common?

For one thing, they share the same tension between theory and practice, between form and substance, between process and outcomes, between constancy and change, and between local and comparative perspectives. Each also has a substratum of fundamental underlying values that demand, but do not always receive, clear articulation.

For another thing, they have both been the subject of illuminating examination by Michael Coper over the course of a long and distinguished career.

An extraordinary group of authors, including Justice Stephen Gageler, the Hon Michael Kirby and Sir Anthony Mason, come together in this book to celebrate Coper’s achievement, and take his various contributions as a jumping off point for their own further scholarly insights.

From the gripping story of the revolution that swept away the old law on section 92 of the Constitution, to the endemic conflict in the judicial process between legalism and realism, to the never-ending controversy about the Dismissal, to perceiving the world and organising legal knowledge in new ways through biography and oral history, to the role of educators in shaping the views and values of newcomers to this knowledge, this book contains over a dozen sparkling essays by some of Australia’s most renowned and respected lawyers, as well as a substantial reflective commentary by Michael Coper himself.

An intellectual feast!

Preface

James Stellios

About the Contributors

Table of Cases

Table of Statutes

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Anthony Mason

Prologue Encounters with Michael Coper’s Career and the Search for New Ways Forward

John Williams

Part I: Three Constitutional Conundrums

1. The Section 92 Revolution