- Title
- Hail to the Chief! The roles and leadership of Australian Chief Justices as evidenced in extra-curial activity 1964-2017
- Creator
- Lindsay, Katherine; Tomkins, David
- Relation
- UNSW Law Journal Vol. 40, Issue 2, p. 712-760
- Relation
- http://www.unswlawjournal.unsw.edu.au/issue/volume-40-no-2
- Publisher
- University of New South Wales, Faculty of Law
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- In this article we seek to address in combination two of the themes suggested for this thematic issue of the journal. The first is the theme of Chief Justices and judicial leadership. The second is the theme of extra-curial activity, including writing, speaking, broadcasting and interviews. In respect of the first theme, the text of the Commonwealth Constitution in section 71 clearly envisages a key leadership role for the person appointed as Chief Justice of the High Court, and thus it is an important subject for academic endeavour. As to the second, it is our contention that there has been a demonstrable change in both the quantity and variety of expressions of extra-curial activity by Chief Justices in the last fifty years. We would further argue that an analysis of this activity has the capacity to provide insight not only into individual conceptions of the role of a Chief Justice of the High Court, but also into what judicial leadership qualities might be evinced in carrying out such an extra-curial role. In methodological terms we would argue that our approach complements research on intellectual leadership in the context of the Court’s developing jurisprudence.
- Subject
- Chief Justices; judicial leadership; extra-curial activity; intellectual leadership; leadership qualities
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1350377
- Identifier
- uon:30540
- Identifier
- ISSN:0313-0096
- Language
- eng
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