The humanity of law : selected essays of James Allsop / edited by Ruth C. A. Higgins, Kevin Connor.

Alexandria, N.S.W. : The Federation Press, 2024.

1st edition

202138

Allsop, James Leslie Bain -- The Hon.

Judges -- Australia.

Part I: The humanity of law

1. The law as an expression of the whole personality

2. Values in law

3. Rules and values, in law, and neuroscience?

Part II: Thinking about law

4. The importance of how we attend and of context

5. Uncertainty as part of certainty

6. The rule of law is not a law of rules

7. Being a judge

Part III: Reflections on public power

8. Values in public law

9. The law governing use of public power

Part IV: The profession

10. The culture of the legal profession: lessons of the past and hope for the future

11. The independent bar

12. Machines becoming humans, or humans becoming machines?

Part V: Commercial law

13. Statutes and equity

14. Some reflections on good faith in contract law

15. The intersection of companies and trusts

16. Piercing the corporate veil

Part VI: Maritime and insurance

17. Australian admiralty and maritime law

18. The central role of insurance in modern society and in the development of the law: the hon James Allsop ac and Louise Dargan.

Published in association with the Australian Academy of Law, this collection draws on the career of one of Australia's leading jurists, the Honourable James Allsop AC. As the editors, Ruth Higgins SC and Kevin Connor SC, state in their introduction: "A pervasive concern of the Honourable James Allsop AC, in both his judicial and extra-judicial writings, has been the pursuit of the often ineffable, but always necessary, human element in the law." The book is divided into six parts and contains 18 papers, speeches and chapters which cover the nature of law and public power, the profession and judiciary, and substantive aspects of equity, statute, commercial, and maritime law. The result is a book that reveals the continuities and evolution of Allsop's thinking, and his significant contribution to public life. - Publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781760025281

xviii, 301 pages ; cm