Simple Common Lawyer

Essays in Honour of Michael Taggart
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-1-84113-923-4
Verlag: Hart Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 0 g

Michael Taggart was the Alexander Turner Professor of Law in the University of Auckland, New Zealand until his retirement in 2008. He has worked extensively on public law, in particular administrative law, privatisation and the public/private law divide as well as on legal history. He has visited and taught at the Universities of Melbourne, New South Wales, Toronto, Cambridge, Paris II, Victoria at Wellington, Saskatchewan, Western Ontario, Queen's University at Kingston and Osgoode Hall Law School. This book of essays, dedicated to him by a group of his friends including academic colleagues, practitioners and judges, marks his enormous contribution to the common law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hunt, Murray

Dyzenhaus, David

Huscroft, Grant

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction Grant Huscroft, David Dyzenhaus and Murray Hunt
2. Process, Quality and Variable Standards: Responding to an Agent Provocateur Mark Aronson
3. The Legitimacy of the Rule of Law David Dyzenhaus
4. Righting Administrative Law Sian Elias
5. The 'Hidden Paw' of the State and the Publicisation of Private Law Carol Harlow
6. Against Bifurcation Murray Hunt
7. 'You Say You Want a Revolution': Bills of Rights in the Age of Human Rights Grant Huscroft and Paul Rishworth
8. Why the History of English Administrative Law is not Written Martin Loughlin
9. Mike Taggart and Australian Exceptionalism Sir Anthony Mason
10. Public Function Tests: Bringing Back the State? Janet McLean
11. A History of the Modern Jurisprudence of Aboriginal Rights - Some Observations on the Journey So Far P G McHugh
12. 'Because I Said So!' Is That Ever Good Enough?-Findings and Reasons in Canadian Administrative Law David Mullan
13. To Be or Not to Be: The Constitutional Relationship Between New Zealand and Australia Cheryl Saunders
14. Early Days Sir Stephen Sedley
15. The Killing of the Prisoners at Agincourt and a Movement from Contract to Status A W B Simpson
The Writings of Michael Taggart

David Dyzenhaus
Murray Hunt
Grant Huscroft
Cheryl Saunders
Mark Aronson
David Mullan
Paul Rishworth
Paul McHugh
Janet McLean
Brian Simpson
Carol Harlow
Martin Loughlin

Justice Stephen Sedley
Chief Justice Sian Elias
Chief Justice Anthony Maso

Über Autor(innen)

David Dyzenhaus is Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Toronto.
Murray Hunt is Legal Adviser to the Joint Committee on Human Rights of the UK Parliament.
Grant Huscroft is Professor of Law at the University of Western Ontario.