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| Qualifications |
BA LLB (Hons) (Syd), PhD (NSW), Barrister NSW, Barrister & Solicitor ACT |
| Biography |
Following his graduation in Arts and Law from the University of Sydney, Professor Michael Coper spent a year in India in 1970 as the Myer Foundation Asian and Pacific Fellow in the Department of Law at the University of Rajasthan in Jaipur, India. He returned to Australia in 1971 to be one of the founding members of the new law school at the University of New South Wales, where he also completed a PhD on the controversial section 92 of the Australian Constitution (later published as the prize-winning Freedom of Interstate Trade under the Australian Constitution (Butterworths, 1983)). He spent 1978 as Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Virginia.
Professor Coper moved to Canberra in 1988 to take up his appointment as a Commissioner of the Inter-State Commission, a body whose establishment by section 101 of the Australian Constitution belied its ephemeral existence. With the (second) demise of the Commission in 1990, and having produced reports on reform of the Australian waterfront and of interstate land transport, Professor Coper joined Sly & Weigall (later Deacons, Graham & James) in 1991 as Director of Government Advising, and worked in full-time private legal practice until 1995, when he was appointed as Professor of Constitutional Law at the ANU, following the retirement of Professor Leslie Zines.
Professor Coper was appointed as Dean in 1998, and as Robert Garran Professor of Law in 2001. His books include Encounters with the Australian Constitution (CCH, 1987) and The Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia (co-editor, OUP, 2001), and he has appeared as counsel in a number of High Court cases, including the landmark Cole v Whitfield (1988). He has held visiting positions in a number of United States law schools, and in 1999 was elected as a member of the American Law Institute. In 2005 he was elected as Chair of the Council of Australian Law Deans. |
| Scholarly Interests |
Constitutional law, judicial process, history and social role of Australian law schools. |
| Recent Publications |
'The Seven Habits of a Highly Effective High Court' (2003) 28 Alternative Law Journal 59; 'The Path of the Law: A Tribute to Holmes' (2003) 54 Alabama Law Review 1079; 'Current, Cross-Currents and Undercurrents in the Turbulent Waters of Constitutional Interpretation in the High Court' (2003) 77 Australian Law Journal 673. |
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Michael Coper
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Robert Garran Professor of Law |
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205 |
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+61 2 6125 4124 |
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+61 2 6125 0097 |
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michael.coper@anu.edu.au |
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