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Disappear? 573573 Opinion Evidence and Reliability: A Sticking Point 449 BOOKJeromeBOOK REVIEW REVIEWSquires Google Spain SL v Agencia Española De Protección De Datos (European Court Of Justice, C-131/12, PePeteterr Burdon Burdon 13Property PropertyMay 2014) Rights Rights and and Sustainability: Sustainability: The The Evolution Evolution 463 ofof Property Property Rights Rights to to Meet Meet Eco Ecolologicalgical Challenges Challenges 581581 Vol Vol 35 35 Vol 35 BOOK REVIEWS SUBMISSIONMarSUBMISSIONgaret White OF OF MA MANUSCRIPTSNUSCRIPTSJurisprudence as Practical Reason: A Celebration 586586 of the Collected Essays of John Finnis Edited by VOLUMEVOLUME 3535 NUMBERNUMBER 22 Mark Sayers and Aladin Rahemtula 473 No No 2 2 No 2 AdelaideAdelaide Law Law Review Review Association Association AdelaideAdelaide Law Law School School TheThe University University of of Adelaide Adelaide AdelaideAdelaide SASA 50055005 AUSTRALIAAUSTRALIA ADVISORY BOARD Emeritus Professor W R Cornish Emeritus Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law University of Cambridge United Kingdom Professor J R Crawford Whewell Professor of International Law University of Cambridge United Kingdom Emeritus Professor M J Detmold Adelaide Law School The University of Adelaide South Australia The Hon Professor J J Doyle Former Chief Justice Supreme Court of South Australia Emeritus Professor R Graycar Sydney Law School The University of Sydney New South Wales Professor J V Orth William Rand Kenan Jr Professor of Law The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States of America Emeritus Professor I Shearer Sydney Law School The University of Sydney New South Wales Professor J M Williams Adelaide Law School The University of Adelaide South Australia ADELAIDE LAW REVIEW Editors Gabrielle Appleby Paul Babie John Gava Book Review Editor Gabrielle Appleby Senior Student Editors Emily Bell Seb Tonkin Student Editors Prudence Buckland Laira Krieg Alexander Chan Jordan Phoustanis Sophie Flaherty Holly Ritson Samantha Graham Jerome Squires Mark Hautop Alyse Walter Publications Officer Panita Hirunboot Volume 35 Issue 2 2014 The Adelaide Law Review is a refereed journal that is published twice a year by the Adelaide Law Review Association of the Adelaide Law School, The University of Adelaide. A guide for the submission of manuscripts is set out at the back of this issue. Articles and other contributions for possible publication are welcomed. Copies of the journal may be purchased, or a subscription obtained, from: Administrative Officer For North America: Adelaide Law Review Association William S Hein & Co Adelaide Law School 1285 Main Street The University of Adelaide Buffalo NY 14209 South Australia 5005 USA AUSTRALIA e-mail: <[email protected]> <http://www.adelaide.edu.au/press/journals/law-review> This volume may be cited as: (2014) 35 Adelaide Law Review The articles in this volume are published in 2014. ISSN 0065-1915 © Copyright is vested in the Association and, in relation to each article, in its author, 2014. TABLE OF CONTENTS ARTICLES Harold H Bruff The President and Congress: Separation of Pow ers in the United States of America 205 Luke Beck The Establishment Clause of the Australian Constitution: Three Propositions and a Case Study 225 Jonathan Crowe Coherence and Acceptance in International Law: Can Humanitarianism and Human Rights be Reconciled? 251 Sandra Pruim Ethnocide and Indigenous Peoples: Article 8 of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 269 Peter Devonshire Indigenous Students at Law School: Comparative Perspectives 309 Jennifer Anderson Juvenile Courts – An Australian Innovation? 331 Elizabeth Wren and ‘Guilty, Your Honour’: Recent Legislative Developments Lorana Bartels on the Guilty Plea Discount and an Australian Capital Territor y Case Study on its Operation 361 Michael Duffy Towards better disclosure of corporate risk – a look at risk disclosure in periodic reporting 385 REVIEW ESSAYS John Gava What We Know About Contract Law and Transacting in the Marketplace — A Review Essay of Catherine Mitchell, Contract Law and Contract Law Practice: Bridging the Gap Between Legal Reasoning and Commercial Expectation and Jonathan Morgan, Contract Law Minimalism: A Formalist Restatement of Commercial Contract Law 409 Peter Burdon, Reflecting on Hannah Arendt and Eichmann Gabrielle Appleby, in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil 427 Rebecca LaForgia, Joe McIntyre and Ngaire Naffine CASE NOTES Prudence Buckland Honeysett v The Queen (2014) 311 ALR 320: Opinion Evidence and Reliability: A Sticking Point 449 Jerome Squires Google Spain SL v Agencia Española De Protección De Datos (European Court Of Justice, C-131/12, 13 May 2014) 463 BOOK REVIEWS Margaret White Jurisprudence as Practical Reason: A Celebration of the Collected Essays of John Finnis Edited by Mark Sayers and Aladin Rahemtula 473 Harold H Bruff* THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS: SEPARATION OF POWERS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ABSTRACT Although the framers of the Australian Constitution adopted many features of the United States Constitution, they rejected the separation of legislative and executive power in favour of responsible government in a parliamentary system like that of the United Kingdom. In doing so, Australians depended on existing conventions about the nature of respon- sible government instead of specification of its attributes in constitutional text. The United States Constitution contains detailed provisions about separation of powers, but unwritten conventions have produced some central features of American government. This article reviews conven- tions developed by Congress that constrain Presidents in the domestic sphere with regard to the appointment of executive and judicial officers and the funding of the federal government. The article then reviews conventions
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