This book identifies, analyses and celebrates the significant and influential dissenting judicial opinions in Australian legal history.

This book identifies, analyses and celebrates the significant and influential dissenting judicial opinions in Australian legal history.

Common-law judgments tend to be more than merely judgments, for judges often make pronouncements that they need not have made had they kept strictly to the task

​This book considers how legal history has shaped and continues to shape our shared present. Each chapter draws a clear and significant connection to a meanin

The story of an American hero who stood against all the forces of Gilded Age America to help enshrine our civil rights and economic freedoms. Dissent. No one wi