Recommended texts - Admin & FedCon (1 Viewer)
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Re: admin and con books?
The prescribed text for the administrative law course at UNSW is Creyke and McMillan's Control of Government Action - Texts, Cases & Commentary. I found it to be a fairly useful book. It is easy to read and reasonably well structured.
For constitutional law, there is Blackshield and William's Australian Constitutional Law and Theory. Unfortunately this isn't a very good book for the subject. It is really a public law textbook and, as a result, tries to be too many things at once. Despite being larger than a brick, the book lacks enough commentary for constitutional law. It is also fairly poorly formatted.
Hanks, Keyzer and Clarke's Australian Constitutional Law is a neatly structured text with an appropriate economy of words for students wishing to have a clear introduction to all the areas of constitutional law. It is slightly outdated now but a new edition may be coming out soon. One of the authors, Patrick Keyzer, is a barrister practicing in constitutional law. He also teaches the subject at UTS, where this text is prescribed.
Booker, Glass and Watt's Federal Constitutional Law - An Introduction is a great book, but unfortunately it is quite outdated -- the last edition being 1998.
Anything on constitutional law written by Professor Leslie Zines is worth a look too, but most likely outdated by now.
Aronson's Judicial Review of Administrative Action is a highly respectable text. The Federal Court and even the High Court refers to it from time to time. However, it is not really a very accessible book for students.dissipate said:
The prescribed text for the administrative law course at UNSW is Creyke and McMillan's Control of Government Action - Texts, Cases & Commentary. I found it to be a fairly useful book. It is easy to read and reasonably well structured.
For constitutional law, there is Blackshield and William's Australian Constitutional Law and Theory. Unfortunately this isn't a very good book for the subject. It is really a public law textbook and, as a result, tries to be too many things at once. Despite being larger than a brick, the book lacks enough commentary for constitutional law. It is also fairly poorly formatted.
Hanks, Keyzer and Clarke's Australian Constitutional Law is a neatly structured text with an appropriate economy of words for students wishing to have a clear introduction to all the areas of constitutional law. It is slightly outdated now but a new edition may be coming out soon. One of the authors, Patrick Keyzer, is a barrister practicing in constitutional law. He also teaches the subject at UTS, where this text is prescribed.
Booker, Glass and Watt's Federal Constitutional Law - An Introduction is a great book, but unfortunately it is quite outdated -- the last edition being 1998.
Anything on constitutional law written by Professor Leslie Zines is worth a look too, but most likely outdated by now.
really?? lol!neo o said:
our prescribed text for admin is creyke too but i kind of dislike it. it's like luntz and hambly.. choppy.
hope zines releases his book fast. took a look at booker and zines and they explain things nicely - thanks MS!