Recently published: Law Under a Democratic Constitution: Essays in Honour of Jeffrey Goldsworthy (Lisa Burton Crawford, Patrick Emerton, & Dale Smith, eds.) (Hart Publishing, 2019). Here is the book description from Amazon:
Jeffrey Goldsworthy is a renowned constitutional scholar and legal theorist whose work on the powers of Parliament and the interpretation of constitutional and statute laws has helped shape debates on these topics across the English-speaking world. The importance of democratic constitutionalism is central to Professor Goldsworthy's work: it lies at the heart of his defence of Parliamentary supremacy and shapes his approach to both constitutional and statutory interpretation. In honour of Professor Goldsworthy's retirement, this collection provides new perspectives from a range of leading public law scholars and theorists on the legal and philosophical principles that govern the making and interpretation of laws in a constitutional democracy, and addresses some of the challenges to democratic constitutionalism that have arisen in light of contemporary developments in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Via Larry Solum at Legal Theory Blog, who comments:
The extraordinary lineup includes: Larry Alexander, Dale Smith, Patrick Emerton & Lisa Burton Crawford, Lawrence Solum, Nicholas Aroney, Heidi Hurd, Kevin Toh, Alison Young, Richard Kay, Richard Ekins, TRS Allen, and Jeffrey Goldsworthy.
Goldsworthy remains one of the most important figures in multiple fields, including constitutional interpretation, statutory interpretation, and parliamentary sovereignty. His pioneering originalist work anticipated, influenced, and shaped many of the developments that are associated with the "New Originalism" in the United States. I count him as one of the two or three most significant influences on my own work.
Highly recommended.
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