Power to Enforce Treaties in Australia -- the High Court Goes Centralist?

Authors

John M. Finnis, Notre Dame Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1983

Publication Information

3 Oxford J. Legal Stud. 126 (1983)

Abstract

At first glance, the decision of the High Court of Australia in Koowarta v Bjelke-Petersen profoundly affects the distribution of legislative power between the States and the Commonwealth of Australia. Perhaps that first impression should be somewhat qualified. But there seems no good reason to doubt what Wilson J (dissenting) said about its possible implications for the exercise of State legislative power.

Comments

Reprinted with permission of Oxford Journal of Legal Studies.

Recommended Citation

John M. Finnis, Power to Enforce Treaties in Australia -- the High Court Goes Centralist?, 3 Oxford J. Legal Stud. 126 (1983).
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