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Constitutional Law And International Law: National Exceptionalism And The Democratic Deficit?, Michael Kirby
Constitutional Law And International Law: National Exceptionalism And The Democratic Deficit?, Michael Kirby
Philip A. Hart Memorial Lecture
On April 16 2009, Former Justice of the High Court of Australia, the Honorable Michael Kiryby delivered the Georgetown Law Center’s twenty-ninth annual Philip A. Hart Lecture: “ Constitutional Law and International Law: National Exceptionalism and the Democratic Deficit?”
When he retired from the High Court of Australia on February 2, 2009, Michael Kirby was Australia’s longest serving judge.
He was first appointed in 1975 as a Deputy President of the Australian Conciliation & Arbitration Commission. Soon after, he was seconded as inaugural Chairman of the Australian Law Reform Commission (1975-84). Later, he was appointed a judge of the Federal …