A simple common lawyer : essays in honour of Michael Taggart / edited by David Dyzenhaus, Murray Hunt, and Grant Huscroft

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777905003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; Portland, Oregon, : Hart Publishing, 2009
• ISBN: 1-4725-6039-6; 1-282-24489-2; 9786612244896; 1-84731-493-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (344 p.)
• Disciplina: 342.06
• Soggetti: Administrative law
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: "The writings of Michael Taggart": pages 313-319
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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