BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS BY GEOFFREY SAWER 1935·1980

By ANNE SCHICK*

1935Article

"Accession in English Law" 9 Australian Law Journal 50-52.

1936Article

"A Trustee May Not Set Off a Gain in one Transaction Against aLoss in Another" 1 Res Judicatae 106-108.

1937Article

"Competitions Involving Chance and Skill" 11 Australian LawJournal 114-117.

1938Articles

"Non-feasance in relation to 'Artificial Structures' on a Highway"12 Australian Law Journal 231-233."Proper Law of Contract-Intention of Parties-MoratoriumLegislation" 11 Australian Law lournal 332-333.

1939Articles

"Bankruptcy Act, S.95-Preference to Sureties" 13 AustralianLaw Journal 13-15."Legal Realism" 2 Res ludicatae 68.

1940Article

"Bankruptcy Act, 1924-1933-Relation Back and Protection toPurchasers" 13 Australian Law lournal 438-440.

1941Articles

"Autrefois Acquit and Decision not 'On the Merits' " 2 Res ludicatae203-210."The Blackout Cases and their Relation to Administrative Law" 15Australian Law lournall03-106."Conflict of Laws-Essential Validity of Marriage" 2 Res Judicatae125-128.

* LL.B. (Melb.); Research Assistant, Department of Law, Research School ofSocial Sciences, Australian National University. This bibliography omits ProfessorSawer's book reviews and his many, often substantial newspaper articles. Inpreparing it, I am grateful for the assistance of Professor Sawer and Professor L.Zines of the Faculty of Law, Australian National University.

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272 Federal Law Review [VOLUME 11

1942Article

"Two notes on Clements v. Ellis" 15 Australian Law Journal341-345.

1944Article

"Injunction, Parliamentary Process, and the Restriction of Parlia­mentary Competence" 60 Law. Quarterly Review 83-86.

1946Articles

Untitled Note (contract between the Crown and its Civil Servants)62 Law Quarterly Review 22-23."The Defence Power of the Commonwealth in Time of War" 20Australian Law lournal 295-300.

1947Articles

"The Privy Council, the High Court and Section 92" 3 Res ludicatae155-157."Ratio Decidendi and Obiter Dictum in Appellate Courts" [withG. W. Paton] 63 Law Quarterly Review 461-485.

1948Books

Australian Government Today (Melbourne University Press;Cambridge University Press); 14th ed. 1980.Cases on the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia(Sydney, LawBook Co.); 2nd ed. 1957; 3rd ed. 1964; Supplements.An Introduction to the Criminal Law in Australia [with J. V. Barryand G. W. Paton] (Melbourne University Press).

Articles"Bank of New South Wales and Others v. Commonwealth. TheBank Nationalisation Case" 22 Australian Law Journal 213-216."Implication and the Constitution. Part I" 4 Res Judicatae 15-22."Price Control and the Validity of Contracts" 22 Australian LawJournal 173-176.

1949Book

A Guide to Australian Law for Journalists, Authors, Printers andPublishers (Melbourne University Press; Cambridge UniversityPress); 2nd ed. 1968.

Articles"Developments of the Last Twenty-Five Years" in Federalism inAustralia (Melbourne, Cheshire). [Papers read at the 15th SummerSchool of the Australian Institute of Political Science.]

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"Implication and the Constitution. Part II" 4 Res Judicatae 85..91."Some Problems in the Law of Copyright" 4 Res Judicatae155-159."The Transitional Defence Power of the Commonwealth" 23Australian Law Journal 255-258.

1950Articles

"The Case of Bank Nationalization-a Study in Australian Govern­ment" 32(3s) Pt III & IV Journal of the Society of ComparativeLegislation and International Law 17-29.

"Legal Education in the United States" 1 University of W~stern

Australia Annual Law Review 398-403.

1951Articles

"Crown Liability in Tort and the Exercise of Discretions" 5 ResJudicatae 14-20.

"Fifty Years of the Australian Constitution" 7 Current AffairsBulletin (No. 10) 147-159.

1952

Book

Federalism: an Australian Jubilee Study [as editor] (Melbourne,Cheshire). [Proceedings of 2 seminars organised by A.N.U. atCanberra in September and October 1951.]

Articles

"Australia" Annual Register of World Events (London, Longman).[Regular contributions to date.]"Australian Legislative Practice" 38 American Bar AssociationJournal 413-415."Constitutional Law" and "Industrial Law" in G. W. Keeton (ed.),The British Commonwealth : The Development of its Laws andConstitutions, voL 2 The Commonlvealth of Australia (London,Stevens) 38-78 and 289-313."Recent Decisions Affecting Public Administration" 11 PublicAdministration (Sydney) 1-11."The Record of Judicial Review" in Sawer (ed.), Federalism: anAustralian Jubilee Study (Melbourne, Cheshire) 211-254."A Uniform Limitation of Actions Law" 26 A ustralian LawJournal 375.

1953

Book

Labor Relations and the Law [as editor with R. E. Mathews andothers] (Boston, Little, Brown and Company).

274 Federal Law Review [VOLUME 11

Articles"Australian Government" in W. V. Aughterson (ed.), TakingStock : Aspects of Mid-Century Life in Australia (Melbourne,Cheshire, reprinted 1954) 127-144."An Australian National School of Law" 2 University of WesternAustralia Annual Law Review 483-489."Copyright in Reports of Legal Proceedings" 27 Australian LawJournal 82-86."The Crown and 'Per Quod Servitium Amisit'. Are PolicemenServants?" 16 Modern Law Review 97-100."Defence Power of the Commonwealth in Time of Peace" 6 ResJudicatae 214-223."Hire Purchase Agreements and Penalties" 16 Modern LawReview 374-376."Husband-and-Wife versus Master-and-Servant; A Collision ofConcepts" 27 Australian Law Journal 323-326.The Place of a Lawyer in the Social Sciences (Canberra, AustralianNational University). [An Inaugural Lecture, 6 October 1953.]"Tactical Irritation of Tenants-and Tactless Irritation ofDominions" [with H. Street] 16 Modern Law Review 522-525.

1954Articles

"Constitutional Issues" in A. Davies and G. Serle (eds), Policiesfor Progress (Melbourne, Cheshire) 13-34."Error of Law on the Face of an Administrative Record" 3University of Western Australia Annual Law Review 24-36."Guests and Lodgers at Inns" 17 Modern Law Review 272-274."A Judicial Confession" 17 Modern Law Review 387-388."Judicial Decisions Affecting Public Administration, October 1951­October 1953" 13 Public Administration (Sydney) 25-37."Judicial Power of the Commonwealth-Decisions by Registrarsin Bankruptcy" 28 Australian Law Journal 341-343."Master and Servant-Vicarious Liability-Right of Indemnityagainst Servant" 28 Australian Law Journal 205-206."The Public Corporation in Australia" in W. G. Friedmann (ed.),The Public Corporation (Toronto, Carswell) 3-50.

1955Articles

"The Crown and 'Per Quod Servitium Amisit'. Are PolicemenServants? (No.2)" 18 Modern Law Review 488-489."Execution of Treaties by Legislation in the Commonwealth ofAustralia" 2 University of Queensland Law Journal 297-303."Non-feasance Revisited" 18 Modern Law Review 541-556.

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1956Book

Australian Federal Politics and Law 1901-1929 (MelbourneUniversity Press; Cambridge University Press).

Articles

"Councils, Ministers and Cabinets in Australia" Public Law110-138."Judicial Decisions Affecting Public Administration, 1953-56" 15Public Administration (Sydney) 132-149."Per Quod Servitium Amisit and Crown Servants" 30 AustralianLaw Journal 387-389.

"Some American Constitutional Case-Books" 30 Australian LawJournal 287-289.

1957Articles

"Problems of Australian Foreign Policy, June 1956-June 1957" 3Australian Journal of Politics and History 1-17."The Second Uniform Tax Case" 31 Australian Law lournal347-352."Shield of the Crown Revisited" 1 Melbourne University LawReview 137-150."Some Legal Assumptions of Constitutional Change" 4 Universityof Western Australia Annual Law Review 1-18.

"The Supreme Court and the High Court of Australia" 6 Journalof Public Law 482-508."The United Nations" in G. Greenwood and N. D. Harper (eds),Australia in World Affairs 1950-55 (Melbourne, Cheshire) 92-124.

1958Articles

"Constructive Desertion of Children" 32 Australian Law Journal42-47."Government as Personalized Legal Entity" in L. C. Webb (ed.),Legal Personality and Political Pluralism (Melbourne UniversityPress) 158-177."Judicial Decisions Affecting Public Administration, 1956-8" 17Public Administration (Sydney) 97-111."Rabbits, the Law and the Constitution" in Rabbit Problem inAustralia [C.S.I.R.O. conference held at Melbourne 11-12 Sep­tember] 52-69.

1959Articles

"Law at the Australian National University" 5 Journal 0/ theSociety 0/ Public Teachers of Law 20-25.

276 Federal Law Review [VOLUME 11

"Per Quod Servitium Amisit-Menial Servants" 75 Law QuarterlyReview 460-461.

"Retrospectivity of Decrees of Nullity of Marriage" 32 AustralianLaw Journal 394-395."Town Planning by Judges: The County of Cumberland Scheme inN.S.W." 45 Journal of the Town Planning Institute 109-112.

1960Articles

"The Application of the Criminal Law to the Aborigines of theNorthern Territory of Australia" [by Mr Justice M. C. Kriewaldt,Sawer editor] 5 University of Western Australia Law Review 1-50.

"Confirmation of Provisional Maintenance Orders: The BritishCommonwealth System" 34 Australian Law Journal 233-237.

"Federal Legal Persons and Dual Citizenship" 2 University ofMalaya Law Review 1-16.

" 'Implied Powers' in Bundesstaatlichen Verfassungen des BritischenCommonwealth" 20 Zeitschrift fur Ausliindisches OfJentliches Rechtund Volkerrecht 562-589.

"Judicial Decisions Affecting Public Administration, 1958-1960"19 Public Administration (Sydney) 230-247."Politics and the Constitution in West Germany" 14 AustralianOutlook 136-146.

"Reforming the Federal Constitution" 32 Australian Quarterly(No.1) 29-33.

"State and Private Property in Australian Law" in H. Strebel (ed.),Staat und Privateigentum (Koln, C. Heymanns Verlag) 209-221.

1961Book

Studies in the Sociology of Law [as editor] (Canberra, AustralianNational University Press).

Articles"Federalism in West Germany" Public Law 26-44."Judge Martin Kriewaldt: Nine Years of Northern TerritorySupreme Court" 1 Adelaide Law Review 148-168."Judicial Power under the Constitution" in R. Else-Mitchell (ed.),Essays on the Australian Constitution (Sydney, Law Book Co.)2nd ed. 71-91."Law as Socially Neutral: Karl Renner" in Sawer (ed.), Studies inthe Sociology of Law (Canberra, Australian National University)137-166."The Separation of Powers in Australian Federalism" 35 AustralianLaw Journal 177-187."State Statutes and the Commonwealth" 1 Tasmanian UniversityLaw Review 580-589.

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1962Articles

"Estoppel in Workmen's Compensation" 36 Australian Law Journal91-95.

"The European Economic Community as a Constitutional System"[with G. Doeker] 4 Inter-American Law Review 218-235.

1963Book

Australian Federal Politics and Law 1929-1949 (MelbourneUniversity Press; Cambridge University Press).

Articles

The Constitutional System of the European Common Market(Canberra, A.C.T. Group, Royal Institute of Public Administration).[Text of talk given to Institute.]"Federal-State Co-operation in Law Reform: Lessons of theAustralian Uniform Companies Act" 4 Melbourne University LawReview 238-253.

"Political Questions" 15 University of Toronto Law Journal 49-61.

"Substance and Form in the Relations between Federal and StateLegislation in Australia" Archiv fur Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie61-74.

1964Book

Ombudsmen (Melbourne University Press; Cambridge UniversityPress) ; 2nd ed. 1968.

Articles

"Australia-Embarrassing Interlude" 11 Bulletin of the CopyrightSociety of the U.S.A. 313-318.

"Emergency Powers in Nigerian and Malayan Federalism" 6Malaya Law Review 83-99.

1965Book

Law in Society (Oxford, Clarendon Press) .

Articles

"Australian Constitutional Law in Relation to InternationalRelations and International Law" in D. P. O'Connell (ed.), Inter­national Law in Australia (Sydney, Law Book Co.) 35-51."Judicial Administration: The Subject and Some Applications" 8Journal of the Society of Public Teachers of Law 301-314.

"T.P.N.G.-The Problem of a Constitution" 5 Australian Terri­tories (No.6) 2-21.

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1966Articles

"The Australian Constitution and the Australian Aborigine" 2Federal Law Review 17-36."The Constitution and its Politics" in H. Mayer (ed.), AustralianPolitics: a Reader (Melbourne, Cheshire); 2nd ed. 1967; SecondReader 1969-2nd ed. 1971; Third Reader, H. Mayer and H.Nelson (eds) 1973; Fourth Reader 1976; Fifth Reader 1980."Division of a Fused Legal Profession : the Australasian Experi­ence" 16 University of Toronto Law Journal 245-266."Nonfeasance under Fire" 2 New Zealand Universities Law Review115-129.

1967Books

Anglo-American Criminal Justice [with D. Karlen and E. M. Wise](Oxford, Clarendon Press).Australian Federalism in the Courts (Melbourne University Press;Cambridge University Press).

Articles"Australia" in H. Mosler (ed.), Haftung des Staates filr Rechs­widriges Verhalten seiner Organe 23-40."Copyright in Letters Unpublished at Writer's Death" 3 Archivesand Manuscripts (No.3) 27-29."The High Court" 40 Current Affairs Bulletin (No.6) 82-96."Redevelopment and the Law of Town Planning" in P. N. Troy(ed.), Urban Redevelopment in Australia (Canberra, AustralianNational University Press) 136-145."Sabbatical Leave" Quadrant, No. 49, vol. 11, No.5, 69-73.

1968Book

The A ustralian and the Law (Harmondsworth, Penguin Books);2nd ed. 1972; 3rd ed. 1976.

Articles

"Australia-New Zealand Association. Some Constitutional Prob­lems" New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, AucklandBranch. Occasional Papers No.1."The Ombudsman and Related Institutions in Australia and NewZealand" Annals of the American Academy of Political and SocialScience (May) 62-72."The Ombudsman Comes to Alberta" 6 Alberta Law Review95-102."The United Nations" in G. Greenwood and N. Harper (eds),Australia in World Affairs 1961-1965 (Melbourne, Cheshire)234-250.

1980] Bibliography of Works by Geoffrey Sawer 1935-1980 279

1969Book

Modern Federalism (London, Watts); 2nd ed. 1976.Articles

"Australian Constitutional Development since 1954" in G. Leibholz(ed.), Jahrbuch des Ofjentlichen Rechts der Gegenwart (Tiibingen,Neue Folge) 681-689."Comment" [Australian Constitutional Development] Public Law1-9."Comment"-[West German Constitutional Development] Public Law189-198."The Commonwealth Copyright Act 1968" 43 Australian Law]ournal 8-12."Judicial Protection of the Individual against the Executive inAustralia and New Zealand" in Max-Planck-Institut fUr Aus­Uindisches Offentliches Recht und Volkerrecht, Judicial ProtectionAgainst the Executive, vol. 1 (Koln, C. Heymanns Verlag) 29-54."Nationalism in the Working of the Federal Constitution" 3Teaching History (Pt 2) 36-50.

1970

Articles

"Administrative Control of Companies-the Life InsuranceExample" 44 Australian Law Journal 303-309.

"Appeals to the Privy Council-Australia" 2 Otago Law Review138-149."Australia-New Zealand Association; Some Constitutional Prob­lems" in Facolta di Giurisprudenza dell' Universita di Roma, Scrittiin Onore di Gaspare Ambrosini, voL 3 (Milan, Casa Editrice Dott.A Giuffre) 1777-1795."The Constitution" in V. G. Venturini (ed.), Australia: A Survey(der Schriften des Instituts jur Asienkunde in Hamburg) volume 27(Wiesbaden, Otto Harrassowitz) 155-207."The Constitution Reconsidered" [Territory of Papua New Guinea]10 Australian External Territories (No.2) 2-7."The Control of Administrative Discretions" 29 Public Adminis­tration (Sydney) 145-164."Co-Operative Federalism and Responsible Government in Aus­tralia" The 1970 Alfred Deakin Lecture, Melbourne."Getting around the Constitution" 29 Public Administration(Sydney) 25-31."The Legal Theory of Law Reform" 20 University of TorontoLaw Journal 183-195."Le Systeme Constitutionnel du Commonwealth d'Australie" inCorpus Constitutionnel (Leiden, Netherlands, Brill) 389-428.

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1971

Articles

"Australia" in K. Zweigert (ed.), International Encylopedia ofComparative Law, vol. 1 (Tiibingen, Mohr) A51-A66."The Commonwealth and the States" 47 Current Affairs Bulletin(No.4) 51-62."Conservation and the Law" in A. B. Costin and H. J. Frith (eds),Conservation (Harmondsworth, Penguin Books) 262-277; 2nd ed.1974, 268-283."Copyright in Letters Not Published at the Author's Death" 4Archives and Manuscripts (No.5) 1-3."Defamation-the Law Commission of NSW Proposals" 3 Aus­tralianAuthor (No.3) 37-41."The Jurisprudence of Ombudsmen" 30 Public Administration(Sydney) 221-228.

"Papua-New Guinea Government: Patterns of Devolution" in L. K.Young (ed.), Constitutional Development in Papua and NewGuinea (Sydney, International Commission of Jurists) 4-16."The Privilege of Members of Parliament from Detention" 7University of Queensland Law Journal 226-234.

1972

Articles"Conscience as Objection in the Law" in T. P. Grundy (ed.),Conscience in the '70s (Canberra, Australian National UniversityCentre for Continuing Education) 66-76."The Criminal Law Cannot Stand Still" 5 Australia and NewZealand Journal of Criminology 137-145.

"The Dynamics of Australian Federalism" 62 Round Table441-450.

"The Judgments of Sir John Barry" in N. Morris and M. Perlman(eds), Law and Crime: Essays in Honor of Sir John Barry (NewYork, Gordon and Breach) 3-25.

1973

Articles

"The British Connection" 47 A ustralian Law lournal 113-118.

"The Western Conception of Law" in K. Zweigert (ed.), Inter­national Encyclopedia of Comparative Law, vol. 2 (Tiibingen,Mohr) 14-48.

1974

Book

The Murray Waters: Man, Nature and a River System [as editorwith H. J. Frith] (Sydney, Angus and Robertson).

1980] Bibliography of Works by Geoffrey Sawer 1935-1980 281

Articles"Conservation and the Law" in R. Dempsey (ed.), The Politics ofFinding Out: Environmental Problems in Australia (Melbourne,Cheshire) 168-177."The Future of State Taxes : Constitutional Issues" in R. L.Mathews (ed. ) , Fiscal Federalism : Retrospect and Prospect(Research Monograph 7, Centre for Research on Federal FinancialRelations, Australian National University, Canberra) 193-207.

"The Guilty Accused" Summons [Melbourne University LawStudents Society] 34-39.

"Legal Profession" in Encyclopaedia Britannica 15th ed., Micro­paedia 10,779-784."The States and Indirect Taxation" in R. L. Mathews (ed.),Intergovernmental Relations in Australia (Melbourne, Angus andRobertson) 178-183.

"The Theory of Law" in P. Biskup (ed.), Australian Law(Sydney, McGraw-Hill) 99-106.

1975

Book

The Australian Constitution (Canberra, Australian GovernmentPublishing Service).

1976

Articles

"Constitutional Change : Australian and Overseas Experience" inR. L. Mathews (ed.), Making Federalism Work (Centre forResearch on Federal Financial Relations, in association with theCentre for Continuing Education, Australian National University,Canberra) 69-73.

"The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia" 52Current Affairs Bulletin (No. 10) 20-31.

"Singulars, Plurals and Section 57 of the Constitution" 8 FederalLaw Review 45-56.

"The Whitlam Revolution in Australian Federalism-Promise,Possibilities and Performance" 10 Melbourne University LaHt'Review 315-329.

"Who Controls the Law in Australia? : Instigators of Change, andthe Obstacles Confronting them" in A. D. Hambly and J. L.Goldring (eds), Australian Lawyers and Social Change (Sydney,Law Book Co.) 118-144.

1977

Book

Federation under Strain: Australia 1972-1975 (Melbourne Uni­versity Press).

282 Federal Law Review [VOLUME 11

Articles"Constitution Issues in Australian Federalism" 7 Publius 21-34."Federalism" in S. Encel, D. Home and E. Thompson (eds),Change the Rules! Towards a Democratic Constitution (Har­mondsworth, Penguin Books) 54-65."Seventy Five Years of Australian Federalism" 36 AustralianJournal of Public Administration 1-11."Towards a New Federal Structure?" in G. Evans (ed.), Laborand the Constitution 1972-1975 (Melbourne, Heinemann) 1-16.

1978Book

Family Guide to Australian Law [as consultant editor with associateeditor J. D. Heydon] (Sydney, Reader's Digest Pty Ltd).

1980Article

"Privilege" in To Name or Not to Name (Australian Press CouncilBooklet No.2 Sydney) 10-14.