Foreword

pp vii-viii

Preface

pp ix-xii

Contents

pp xiii-xviii

The Writings of Professor Bruce Harris

pp xix-xxii

List of Cases

pp xxiii-xxviii

List of Contributors

pp xxix-xxxii

Introduction

pp 1-10

Part I - The Nature of Executive Power

pp 11-12

A Māori Perspective on Constitutional Issues, Especially Executive Power

pp 13-28

Constitutional Pragmatism and ‘Third Source’ Executive Authority

pp 29-56

Part II - Issues Concerning The Judiciary: The Nature of Judicial (and Executive) Power

pp 57-58

Sustainability, Indeterminacy and the Abdication of Environmental Responsibility

pp 59-78

Part III - Issues Concerning The Judiciary: Creativity and Pragmatism in Judicial Method

pp 79-80

Declarations of Inconsistency and Judicial Creativity: A Tale of Two Taylors

pp 81-108

Judicial Innovation and the Family

pp 109-134

Judicial Activism and Restraint, New Zealand Style: Three Case Studies in Controversy

pp 135-168

The Development of Global Regulatory Standards by International Courts and Tribunals: Whaling, Tobacco and Renewable Energy

pp 169-200

Part IV - Issues Concerning The Judiciary: Judicial Appointment and Accountability

pp 201-202

BV Harris’s Promotion of a Judicial Commission for New Zealand

pp 203-216

The Constitutional Status of the Senior Judiciary and the Courts in New Zealand: A Sketch

pp 217-244

Part III - The Nature of Unwritten Constitutions andTheir Future

pp 245-246

Dworkin and the Treaty of Waitangi as a Legal Principle

pp 247-262

Written and Unwritten Constitutions: The Modality of Change

pp 263-288

Constitutional Scholars and the Unwritten Constitution: Interpreters, Reformers, Communicators

pp 289-320

Index

pp 321-326