Jeffrey Barnes (Victoria La Trobe University), Jacinta Dharmananda (Perth University of Western Australia), Eamonn Moran

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Modern Statutory Interpretation

Beschreibung

Modern Statutory Interpretation is an original, clear, coherent and research-based account of contemporary Australian statutory interpretation. It provides a comprehensive coverage of statutory interpretation law, legislative drafting, the parliamentary process, the modern history of interpretation, sources of doubt, and interpretation techniques.

Autor

Dr Jeffrey Barnes is an Associate Professor in La Trobe Law School at La Trobe University. He assisted the Law Admissions Consultative Committee in preparing the Statement on Statutory Interpretation (Law Admissions Consultative Committee, 2010). Following that involvement, he was appointed the lead author of the Council of Australian Law Deans Good Practice Guide to Teaching Statutory Interpretation (Council of Australian Law Deans, 2015). He is the editor of The Coherence of Statutory Interpretation (The Federation Press, 2019). He has written a number of other texts on the topics of statutory interpretation, legislative drafting, the legislative process and administrative law. His doctorate was on the Plain Language Movement and legislation. In addition to producing scholarly writing, he has practised law widely, including as a parliamentary counsel for the NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office, as Associate to the Chairman of and Law Reform Officer at the Australian Law Reform Commission, as Project Officer with the Administrative Review Council, and as a Legal Member (part-time) of the Social Security Appeals Tribunal. He has also been engaged by various government agencies as a consultant on statutory interpretation. His past academic appointments include Foundation Director of Teaching and Learning at La Trobe Law School, and Co-editor of Legal Education Review. In 2009 he developed and taught an elective subject on statutory interpretation, and since 2013 has developed and taught compulsory subjects wholly devoted to statutory interpretation for LLB and Juris Doctor students.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 816
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 170mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 1388g
• ISBN-13: 9781108816021
• ISBN-10: 1108816029
• Artikelnr.: 64369847