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This biography unravel(s) the puzzle of how such a gifted legal scholar, advocate and judge could, at the same time, live a life that so outraged the orthodox expectations that ascended upon him. -- From the Foreword by the Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG

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'This biography ... unravel(s) the puzzle of how such a gifted legal scholar, advocate and judge could, at the same time, live a life that so outraged the orthodox expectations that descended upon him.' From the Foreword by The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG

About the Author

John Emerson is Visiting Research Fellow with the University of Adelaide Law School and the founding Director of the University of Adelaide Press. He has previously published The History of the Independent Bar in South Australia and First Among Equals: Chief Justices of South Australia since Federation and dozens of articles on the history of the legal profession. He holds a Master’s Degree in Cinema from the University of Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle, and a PhD in French from the University of Adelaide.

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This biography … unravel(s) the puzzle of how such a gifted legal scholar, advocate and judge could, at the same time, live a life that so outraged the orthodox expectations that descended upon him.
*The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG*