Gabrielle Appleby, Anna Olijnyk, James Stellios & John Williams

This book is the result of years of collective and collaborative thinking around Chapter III of the Australian Constitution, and, to use Professor Sarah Murray’s phrase, the ‘unique form of Australian judicial federalism’ that it reflects today. We are delighted to see the book launched …

Alan Robertson SC

Dr Amanda Sapienza’s Judicial Review of Non-Statutory Executive Action is an important work because it has as its centre of attention non-statutory executive action, rather than dealing with it, however well, in a more general context of public law. In this second category I would include, for …

Cheryl Saunders

Publication of a serious work on judicial review of non-statutory executive power in Australia is long overdue and Amanda Sapienza’s book is very welcome for this reason. I have watched her ideas on these complex issues develop since her presentation to the Cambridge Public Law Conference in 2016. …

Jackson Wherrett

On one level, Dr Amanda Sapienza’s Judicial Review of Non-Statutory Executive Action is a novel examination of an under-explored area of administrative law. At the same time, it joins a very long line of scholarship that considers the principle of the separation of powers. More particularly, it draws on the …

Amanda Sapienza

Between the pandemic and my post-PhD career choices, an in-person launch of Judicial Review of Non-Statutory Executive Action, which was published by the Federation Press at the end of 2020, was out of the question. So I’m indebted to the editors of AUSPUBLAW for hosting this online …

Craig Lenehan

Shipra Chordia’s excellent book, Proportionality in Australian Constitutional Law, is a fine contribution to this difficult and developing area. As Sir Anthony Mason observes in his foreword, it is “an important addition to the Australian Constitutional Law Bookshelf” (at vi). Notably, the High Court has already begun to engage with Dr Chordia’s work …

Murray Wesson

Proportionality is a vexed topic in Australian constitutional law. On the one hand, the High Court has for many years relied upon forms of proportionality to characterise laws enacted with respect to purposive and incidental law-making powers, and to determine the validity of laws burdening constitutional limits. On the other hand, …

Theunis Roux

Philipp Dann, Michael Riegner and Maxim Bönnemann’s edited collection of essays on The Global South and Comparative Constitutional Law constitutes a major advance in scholarly thinking on this topic. Theorising the Global South as an ‘epistemic, methodological and institutional sensibility’ (p. 3), Dann and his co-editors persuasively show …