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Notes on contributor
Professor Charles Sampford, Foundation Dean and Professor of Law, Foundation Director of the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance (1999–2004), Foundation Director of the Institute for Ethics Governance and Law (2004) and, very proudly, lead editor of the GLR 1992 and 1995–6. (The other two co-editors of the first edition were Alan Leaver and Chris Butler, with Mary Keyes, a recently appointed Research Assistant, providing editorial assistance in one of the first of many great things she has done for the Law School).
Notes
1 We had met at the 1991 Womens’ lawyers Christmas drinks (at which I had declined the title of ‘feminist’ for ‘fellow traveller’) and discussed legal education over dinner.
2 Pearce, Campbell and Harding (Citation1987).
3 Though not, as I had feared, the ‘grand inquisitor’.
4 Although the ARC later decided, sensibly in my view, to drop such rankings of journals it does mean that the GLR retains that honour, adding to the prestige of the journal.
5 Sampford and Wood (Citation1988).
6 Sampford and Wood (Citation1989); Sampford (Citation1990).
7 Sampford (Citation1989).
8 The then research equivalent of Associate Professor.
9 Australian Law Schools After the 1987 Pearce Report, Department of Employment, Education and Training.
10 This requirement was to help students appreciate the variability of laws over time and space and to disabuse them of any easy assumptions that the law of their time and place was inevitable or heading in a single direction.
11 Sampford and Breakey (Citation2017).
12 The 1648 Treaties of Osnabrucke and Munster (two towns in Westphalia) are collectively called the Treaty of Westphalia or the ‘Peace of Westphalia’ recognising the end of the 30 years’ war.
13 Note that my mentor and colleague Professor William Twining has pointed out to me that the term ‘normative pluralism’ might be more appropriate as the boundaries of legal and other norms are less clear in the absence of a sovereign state to determine the sources of law and the inability of courts to enforce the law on all those who claim to be bound by it.