Preview: Law, Justice and Other Challenges with Michael Kirby and James D’Apice
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What is the book, Law, Justice and Other Challenges about? What does Michael Kirby reflect on as critical influences in both his career and personal life? How have minority interests grown and changed over the course of his career? What does the future of the legal profession look like?
Join the Honourable Michael Kirby AC CMB (Former Justice of the High Court of Australia, Sydney) and James d’Apice (Principal Lawyer, Gravamen, Sydney) as they discuss the recently published book and reflect on Michael Kirby’s career.
Watch the book launch here: Book Launch: Law, Justice and Other Challenges: Selected Speeches and Papers of Michael Kirby
Discussion Includes:
- The process involved in collating the book
- Justice Kirby’s self-assessment of judicial life
- Mental health maintenance
- Activism vs Conservatism in the law
- Balancing idealism with the greediest profession
- Justice Kirby’s rates of dissent
- Attention to detail in legal practice
- The Role of Aggression
- The value of artificial intelligence
- Where traditional law and imposed law collide
- The change in how homosexuality is perceived
- Reflections on the future of the profession
- The teaching of ethics at law school
Presenter Profiles
The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG James d’Apice
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Cases
- Mabo v Queensland (No 2) [1992] HCA 23
- Australian Communist Party v Commonwealth (1951) 83 CLR 1