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Journal articles
2006, 'The High Court on Constitutional Law: The 2005 Statistics', University of New South Wales Law Journal, 29, pp. 182 - 197
,2006, 'The Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities: Origins and Scope', Melbourne University Law Review, 30, pp. 880 - 905
,2006, 'Who`s Listening? Intercepting the Telephone Calls, Emails and SMS`s of Innocent People.', Alternative Law Journal, 31, pp. 211 - 215
,2005, 'A Tale of Two Systems: The Use of International Law in Constitutional Interpretation in Australia and South Africa', Melbourne University Law Review, 29, pp. 95 - 130
,2005, 'Balancing National Security and Human Rights: Lessons from Australia', Borderlands e-journal, 4
,2005, 'Bills of Responsibilities', Alternative Law Journal, 30, pp. 58 - 63
,2005, 'The Constitution and a National Industrial Relations Regime', Deakin Law Review, 10, pp. 498 - 510
,2005, 'The High Court on Constitutional Law: The 2004 Statistics', University of New South Wales Law Journal, 28, pp. 14 - 29
,2004, 'A Supreme Court for the United Kingdom? A View from the High Court of Australia', Legal Studies, 24, pp. 188 - 209
,2004, 'Australian Electoral Law: Free and Fair?', Federal Law Review, 32, pp. 365 - 395
,2004, 'Commentary on `The Growth of Constitutional Writs`', Australian Journal of Administrative Law, 12, pp. 30 - 34
,2004, 'Electoral Law Symposium: An Introduction', Federal Law Review, 32, pp. 357 - 363
,2004, 'Human Rights and Judicial Review in a Nation without a Bill of Rights: The Australian Experience', Supreme Court Law Review, 23, pp. 305 - 334
,2004, 'Responding to Terrorism Without a Bill of Rights: The Australian Experience', Asia Rights, 2, pp. 1 - 6
,2004, 'Sovereignty and its Relevance to Treaty-Making Between Indigenous Peoples and Australian Governments', Sydney Law Review, 26, pp. 307 - 352
,2004, 'The Australian Diaspora and the Right to Vote', University of Western Australia Law Review, 32, pp. 1 - 29
,2004, 'The Constitutional Role of the Courts: A Perspective from a Nation without a Bill of Rights', NZ Journal of Public and International Law, 2, pp. 25 - 46
,2004, 'The High Court on Constitutional Law: The 2003 Statistics', University of New South Wales Law Journal, 27, pp. 88 - 99
,2004, 'The Power To Go To War: Australia in Iraq', Public Law Review, 15, pp. 5 - 9
,2004, 'What is Terrorism? Problems of Legal Definition', University of New South Wales Law Journal, 27, pp. 270 - 295
,2003, 'A century of appointments but only one woman', Alternative Law Journal, 28, pp. 54 - 58
,2003, 'A Statutory Bill of Rights for Australia? Lessons from the United Kingdom', University of Queensland Law Journal, 22, pp. 1 - 19
,2003, 'Advice to Hon. Simon Crean MP on the Use of Force Against Iraq', Melbourne Journal of International Law, 4, pp. 183 - 189
,2003, 'Australian Electoral Law: A Stocktake', Election Law Journal, 2, pp. 383 - 402
,2003, 'Australian Values and The War Against Terrorism', University of New South Wales Law Journal, 26, pp. 191 - 199
,2003, 'Deep Anxieties: Australia and the International Legal Order', Sydney Law Review, 25, pp. 423 - 465
,2003, 'Guarding Human Rights', Law Institute Journal, 77, pp. 62 - 66
,2003, 'National Security, Terrorism and Bills of Rights', Australian Journal of Human Rights, 9, pp. 263 - 273
,2003, 'Reform of the Judicial Appointments Process: Gender and the Bench of the High Court of Australia', Melbourne University Law Review, 27, pp. 819 - 863
,2003, 'Review of Executive Action and the Rule of Law Under the Australian Constitution', Public Law Review, 14, pp. 219 - 233
,2003, 'Rights-based Reconciliation Needs Renewed Action from Canberra', Alternative Law Journal, 28, pp. 122 - 126
,2003, 'The First Step to a National Relations Regime? Workplace Relations Amendment', Australian Journal of Labour Law, 16, pp. 94 - 98
,2003, 'Weaker Protections Rejected', Law Society Journal, 41, pp. 62 - 65
,2002, 'Co-operative Federalism and the Revival of the Corporations Law: Wakim and Beyond', Company and Securities Law Journal, 20, pp. 160 - 171
,2002, 'One Year On: Australia`s Legal Response to September 11', Alternative Law Journal, 27, pp. 212 - 215
,2002, 'The Treaty Debate, Bill of Rights and the Republic: Strategies and Lessons for Reform', Balayi: Culture Law and Colonialism, 5, pp. 10 - 24
,2001, 'A Victory for democracy? An alternative assessment of Republic of Fiji v Prasad', Melbourne Journal of International Law, 2, pp. 535 - 548
,2001, 'Electoral Challenges: Judicial Review of Parliamentary Elections in Australia', Sydney Law Review, pp. 53 - 94
,2001, 'First Words: The Preamble to the Australian Constitution', University of New South Wales Law Journal, pp. 382 - 400
,2001, 'Freedom of Speech and Defamation: Developments in the Common Law World ( with Adrienne Stone )', Monash University Law Review, pp. 362 - 378
,2001, 'Human Rights and the Second Century of the Australian Constitution', University of New South Wales Law Journal, pp. 782 - 791
,2001, 'With Hope in God, the Prime Minister and the Poet: Lessons from the 1999 Referendum on the Preamble', University of New South Wales Law Journal, pp. 401 - 419
,2000, 'The failure of citizens' initiated referenda proposals in Australia: New directions for popular participation?', Australian Journal of Political Science, 35, pp. 27 - 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10361140050002818
,1996, 'The suppression of communism by force of law: Australia in the early 1950s', Australian Journal of Politics and History, 42, pp. 220 - 240, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8497.1996.tb01364.x
,Conference Papers
2015, 'The Racial Discrimination Act and the Australian Constitution’', in Perspectives on the Racial Discrimination Act: Papers from the 40 years of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth) Conference, Sydney, pp. 41 - 54, presented at 40 years of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth) Conference, Sydney, 19 February 2015 - 20 February 2015, https://www.humanrights.gov.au/our-work/race-discrimination/publications/perspectives-racial-discrimination-act-papers-40-years
,Reports
2020, Submission to Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation inquiry into Exemption of delegated legislation from parliamentary oversight
,2019, Submission to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee’s Inquiry into Centrelink's Compliance Program, https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Community_Affairs/Centrelinkcompliance/Submissions
,2019, Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security Review of the Australian Citizenship renunciation by conduct and cessation provisions, https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/sites/kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/files/Sub%2010%20-%20Dr%20Sangeetha%20Pillai%20and%20Professor%20George%20Williams%20AO%20UNSW%20Law%20(private%20capacity)%20(2).pdf
,2019, Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters Inquiry into the 2019 Federal Election
,2018, Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security Inquiry into the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Strengthening the Citizenship Loss Provisions) Bill 2018, https://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/sites/kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/files/Sub%2001.pdf
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