Interview with Leslie Zines, professor of law / interviewer, Daniel Connell.

2004

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Zines, Leslie.

Law -- Study and teaching -- Australia.

Judicial power -- Australia.

Australia -- Politics and government.

Professor Zines speaks about his family background and early years in Sydney, N.S.W.; his public school education; his law studies at Sydney Law School (late 1940s); his job as articled clerk; the Australian and international political climate of the 1940s-1950s; his early years at the Attorney General's Dept. in Canberra (early 1950s); his two year public service scholarship to study law at Harvard University, Mass. (mid 1950s); the Harvard teaching system; his return to Canberra and commencing work on intellectual property law; being asked to apply for a senior lecturership in law at the Australian National University (ANU) (1959); his teaching methods; his views on the role of judges; High Court judgements; his professional role in the Tasmanian Dams case; the future of legal education; differences between training by the profession and training at University; teaching constitutional law; the 1975 Dismissal; the relationship between the broader community in the A.C.T. and ANU Law School; the gulf between academics and judges; federalism.

Compact discs.

Written permission required from the interviewee for research use, personal copies and public use for 10 years from the date of the interview.

Recorded on Jan. 30, 2004; Feb. 20, 2004; Feb. 27, 2004 at Braddon, Canberra, A.C.T.

Oral History Collection.

6 sound discs (ca. 390 min.) : digital + transcript (140 p.)