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| Qualifications |
AM, OBE, LLM (Melb.), MA (Oxf) |
| Biography |
Peter Bailey, is a former Rhodes Scholar from Victoria. Since 1999 he has been an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty, after being a Visiting Fellow from 1987 to 1998. Before that, and between 1981 and 1986, he was Deputy Chairman and full-time chief executive of the Commonwealth’s Human Rights Commission. His earlier career was in the Commonwealth Public Service, where he served in the Treasury and then in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, becoming a Deputy Secretary in the latter in 1972. He was a full time member of the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration 1974-76.
His main research interests are in human rights law and in public law generally, particularly in the area of the law relating to government and its instrumentalities.
He is currently working on a new book on human rights which should be published next year. He has just completed a chapter on Interpreting Discrimination Law, to be published in Thinking about Statutes: Essays on Statutory Interpretation. Other publications include Human Rights: Australia in an International Context (1990) and Bringing Human Rights to Life (1993). Between 1992 and 1996 he was foundation Title Editor for, and contributor to, the Human Rights Title in The Laws of Australia. In 1998 his ‘Civil and Political Rights’ title was published in Halsbury’s Laws of Australia.
He has published numerous articles, including ‘Righting the Constitution without a Bill of Rights’ (1995), ‘The Right to an Adequate Standard of Living: New Challenges for Australian Law’ (1997) and ‘Is Administrative Review Possible Without Legalism?’ (2001). |
| Scholarly Interests |
Human Rights, Public Law, International Law, Discrimination Law |
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Have been in the Faculty since 1987 and teach the following subjects - Undergraduate program: Human Rights Law in Australia Graduate program: Australian Human Rights and Discrimination Law Executive Power Introduction to Legal Reasoning and Research |
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