Public Lecture: Government attempts to block legal challenges to executive power: From the Tampa refugees to the Adani coal mine
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Newcastle Law School invites you to a public lecture by Professor Michael Head on executive power and administrative law, issues and challenges.
About Professor Michael Head
MICHAEL HEAD is a professor of law at Western Sydney University. He teaches and writes in the fields of public law, civil liberties and socialist legal theory.
Prof Head’s administrative law books include Administrative Law: Context and Critique, Federation Press 4th ed 2017, and Calling out the Troops: The Australian Military and Civil Unrest, Federation Press, 2009.
In 2004 he completed a PhD on the passionate legal debates and jurisprudence of the pre-Stalinist Soviet Union, becoming the first PhD graduate from the Western Sydney University Law School.
His other books include Evgeny Pashukanis—A Critical Re-Appraisal, Cavendish-Routledge, 2007; Crimes Against the State: From Treason to Terrorism, Routledge 2011; and Emergency Powers in Theory and Practice: The Long Shadow of Carl Schmitt, Ashgate 2016.
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