Abstract
A historiographical analysis of judicial biography generates insights into changing understandings of the High Court’s political and symbolic roles and the place of judges in Australian society. This article analyses the ways in which scholars of successive eras have represented Justices Griffith and Isaacs of the High Court. Biographies will inevitably depict an era as well as exploring one discrete individual, and biographical writing on Griffith and Isaacs evokes the establishment and consolidation of the Australian nationstate in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This article focuses on the extent to which concepts of Australian nationhood and national identity have shaped representations of these two judges.
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