‘No Higher Duty’: Mabo and the Failure of Legal Foundation

Law and Critique 13 (3):233-252 (2002)
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The first half of the paper shows how the imperial quality of the common law putatively accommodates the demand for legal foundation. The second half takes the Mabo decision as a test of this supposed ability and finds it foundationally wanting. The continuing insistence of the indigenous presence provides the key.

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