A Simple Common Lawyer

Essays in Honour of Michael Taggart

David Dyzenhaus, Murray Hunt, Grant Huscroft, David Dyzenhaus, Murray Hunt, Grant Huscroft

• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN: 9781841139234
• eBook ISBN: 9781847314932
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Administrative Law
• Index: Law

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.

Table of contents

• Prelims
• Contents
• Foreword
• Contributors
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Process, Quality, and Variable Standards: Responding to an Agent Provocateur
• 3 The Legitimacy of the Rule of Law
• 4 Righting Administrative Law
• 5 The ‘Hidden Paw’ of the State and the Publicisation of Private Law
• 6 Against Bifurcation
• 7 ‘You Say You Want a Revolution’: Bills of Rights in the Age of Human Rights
• 8 Why the History of English Administrative Law is not Written
• 9 Mike Taggart and Australian Exceptionalism
• 10 Public Function Tests: Bringing Back the State?
• 11 A History of the Modern Jurisprudence of Aboriginal Rights – Some Observations on the Journey So Far
• 12 ‘Because I Said So!’ Is That Ever Good Enough?—Findings and Reasons in Canadian Administrative Law
• 13 To Be or Not to Be: The Constitutional Relationship Between New Zealand and Australia
• 14 Early Days
• 15 The Killing of the Prisoners at Agincourt and a Movement from Contract to Status
• The Writings of Michael Taggart
• Index