Protecting rights without a Bill of Rights
Subtitle: institutional performance and reform in Australia
By: edited by Tom Campbell, Jeffrey Goldsworthy, Adrienne Stone.
Contributors: Campbell, Tom, 1938-; Goldsworthy, Jeffrey Denys.; Stone, Adrienne
Series: Law, justice, and power
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
Subjects: Civil rights -- Australia; Human rights -- Australia
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Australian exceptionalism : rights protection without a Bill of Rights / Brian Galligan, F.L. (Ted) Morton; title: The performance of Australian legislatures in protecting rights / John Uhr; title: Improving legislative scrutiny of proposed laws to enhance basic rights, parliamentary democracy, and the quality of law-making / Bryan Horrigan; title: The performance of administrative law in protecting rights / Robin Creyke; title: Australia's constitutional rights and the problem of interpretive disagreement / Adrienne Stone; title: Rights and citizenship in law and public discourse / Helen Irving; title: Chained to the past : the psychological terra nullius of Australia's public institutions / Megan Davis; title: Constitutional property rights in Australia : reconciling individual rights and the common good / Simon Evans; title: American judicial review in perspective / Robert Nagel; title: The unfulfilled promise of dialogic constitutionalism : judicial-legislative relationships under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms / Christopher Manfredi; title: A modest (but robust) defence of statutory bills of rights / Jeremy Webber; title: Australia's first Bill of Rights : the Australian Capital Territory's Human Rights Act / Hilary Charlesworth; title: An Australian rights council / George Winterton; title: Human rights strategies : an Australian alternative / Tom Campbell.