Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references.

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

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