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The Humanity of Law: Selected Essays of James Allsop

The Humanity of Law: Selected Essays of James Allsop

Author: Ruth C A Higgins SC; Kevin Connor SC
Publisher: The Federation Press
ISBN: 9781760025281
Published In: November 2024
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Australia ? Disclaimer:
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Published in association with the Australian Academy of Law, this collection draws on the career of one of Australia’s leading jurists, the Honourable James Allsop AC.

As the editors, Ruth Higgins SC and Kevin Connor SC, state in their introduction: “A pervasive concern of the Honourable James Allsop AC, in both his judicial and extra-judicial writings, has been the pursuit of the often ineffable, but always necessary, human element in the law.”

The book is divided into six parts and contains 18 papers, speeches and chapters which cover the nature of law and public power, the profession and judiciary, and substantive aspects of equity, statute, commercial, and maritime law. The result is a book that reveals the continuities and evolution of Allsop’s thinking, and his significant contribution to public life.

Foreword by the Hon. Chief Justice Stephen Gageler AC

Introduction: From Analysis to Synthesis: RCA Higgins SC & K Connor SC

Part I: The Humanity of Law

1. The law as an expression of the whole personality

2. Values in Law

3. Rules and Values, in law and neuroscience

Part II: Thinking About Law

4. The Importance of how we attend and of context

5. Uncertainty as a part of certainty

6. The Rule of Law is not a law of rules

7. Being a judge

Part III: Reflections on Public Power