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Informationen zum Autor Brendan Lim is a barrister at the New South Wales Bar, practising principally in public and commercial law, and a fellow at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney. He was previously Counsel Assisting the Commonwealth Solicitor-General and a Judge's Associate at the High Court and the Federal Court of Australia. Klappentext An original account of the 1975 constitutional crisis and its continuing relevance for informal constitutional change in contemporary Australian law. Zusammenfassung This book offers scholars and students of law! legal theory and history a new treatment of the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis. It traces the emergence of this fundamental constitutional debate in the turbulent Whitlam years and chronicles its subsequent iterations in institutional configurations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1. Introduction: I. New questions; II. The plan; Part 2. Informal Constitutional Change: I. The possibility of informal change; II. The identification of informal change; III. The legitimacy of informal change; Part 3. The Whitlam Dismissal: I. The standard narrative; II. The dismissal and the constitutional canon; III. The higher law narrative; IV. Conclusion; Part 4. The Murphy Affair: I. Events of 1975-86; II. Murphy and the standard narrative; III. Murphy and the higher law narrative; IV. Conclusion; Part 5. The Mason Court: I. Internal point of view; II. Dixon's orthodoxy; III. Popular sovereignty foreshadowed: 1962-86; IV. Popular sovereignty ascendant: 1987-95; V. Parliamentary supremacy returns: 1996-; VI. Conclusion; Part 6. The Howard Referendum: I. Constitutional law and identity; II. Whitlam and Republicanism; III. Republicanism reinvented; IV. Clash of grammars; V. Conclusion; Part 7. Conclusion.
