In Review' Celebration of Scholarship

Abstract

This evening we are gathered in celebration of years of scholarly endeavour, undertaken in one of our finest law schools. Shortly Professor Bryan Horrigan will present the works which have been published during the last triennium and which testify to the vigour of the Monash research tradition. But first I must pay my respects and record my debt to the Law School of Monash University and to several of its graduates who, as my Associates, shepherded me through my judicial years. It was Louis Waller who, identifying students of ability and industry, recommended recent graduates for appointment. All of them proved to be not only brilliant and enthusiastic lawyers but men and women who became continuing friends and whose friendship grew out of lively discussion following long hours of research. As a consumer emeritus of the scholarly work of others, I have been given this opportunity to say something about the nature and purpose of legal research research which finds a natural home in the Law Schools of our Universities although its benefits are not confined to the halls of Academe.