At the court of the strange God

Law and Critique

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 271-287

  Kerruish, Valerie ^a  

^a NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aboriginal peoples; Authority; Legal reasoning; Nation; Sovereignty; Subjectivity; T chn

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744454193     PISSN: 09578536     EISSN: 15728617     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021296319543     Document Type: Review

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2. K. Marx and F. Engels, Werke Band 23, Das Kapital (Berlin: Dietz Verlag, 1972), 782;
3. see also V. Kerruish, 'Responding to Kruger: the Constitutionality of Genocide', Australian Feminist Law Journal 11 (1988), 65-82.
4. I. Kant, The Metaphysics of Morals [1797] trans., M. Gregor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), at 130;
5. and see Kerruish, The Metaphysics of Morals [1797] ibid.
6. G.W.F. Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, trans., A.V. Miller (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), at 328-355, esp. 332;
7. Sämtliche Werke v. 2, Jubiläumsausgabe 4th ed., (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Friedrich Frommann Verlag, 1964), at 414-448, esp 419;
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10. Mabo and others v. State of Queensland (No. 2) (1991) 107 ALR 1.
11. R. Dworkin, Law's Empire (London: Fontana Press, 1986), at 407.
12. Supra n. 4, per Brennan J (Mason CJ and McHugh J concurring) at 20;
13. Deane and Gaudron JJ at 58;
14. Dawson J at 92;
15. Toohey J at 143.
16. Ibid., per Brennan at 22f;
17. Deane and Gaudron at 58f;
18. Toohey at 141; cp. Dawson at 106.
19. Supra n. 4, at 19.
20. A. Negri, Constituent Power and the Modern State, trans., M. Boscagli (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), at 29. Since I do not work with Negri's framework I have adapted what I take to be his idea to my formulation.
21. See N. MacCormick, "Beyond the Sovereign State", Modern Law Review 56 (1993), 1-16.
22. H.L.A Hart, "Definition and Theory in Jurisprudence" [1953], in Essays in Jurisprudence and Philosophy (Oxford: Clarendon press, 1983), at 21-48.
23. H.L.A. Hart, The Concept of Law (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961), 77f;
24. J Raz, The Concept of a Legal System (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970), c. 5.
25. I owe this point to John Touchie.
26. For discussion of law and the nation see P. Fitzpatrick, Nationalism, Racism and the Rule of Law, (Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1995), at pp. xiii-xvii, 3-24.
27. Richard Bartlett, "Mabo: Another Triumph for the Common Law", Sydney Law Review 15 (1993), 178.
28. Johnson v. McIntosh (1823) 8 Wheat, 543;
29. cited supra n. 4, at 43 (Brennan), 66, 67 (Deane and Gaudron), 105 (Dawson), 150, 151 (Toohey);
30. Cherokee Nation v Georgia (1831) 5 Pet 1: cited at 67 (Deane and Gaudron), 103, 127 (Dawson);
31. Worcester v. Georgia (1832) 6 Pet 515; 31 US 350;
32. cited at 21 (Brennan), 103, 127 (Dawson).
33. A. Pottage, "Instituting Property", Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 18 (1998), 331.
34. Supra n. 4, at 20 per Brennan.
35. Ibid., at 57-58 per Deane and Gaudron.
36. Ibid., at 140 per Toohey.
37. Ibid., at 93.
38. Ibid., at 97.
39. Supra n. 2, at 175.
40. Ibid., at 176.
41. See, e.g., J. Derrida, "Force of Law: The 'Mystical Foundation of Authority'" [1989], in D. Cornell, M.L. Rosenfeld and D.G. Carlson, eds., Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice (New York: Routledge, 1992), 3-67;
42. J. Raz, "Authority, Law, Morality", in Ethics in the Public Domain (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), 210-237.
43. J.-L. Nancy, "The Jurisdiction of the Hegelian Monarch", in The Birth to Presence, trans., B. Holmes et al. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993) at 110.
44. Supra n. 10, at 13.
45. P.J. Fitzgerald, Salmond on Jurisprudence, 12th ed., (London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1966), 321f.
46. Brennan, Deane and Gaudron use 'the Crown' interchangeably with 'sovereign state', supra n. 4, at 20-21 per Brennan; 57-58 per Deane and Gaudron;
47. Dawson, referring to the annexation of the Murray Islands, describes it as 'an act of state by which the Crown in the right of the Colony of Queensland exerted sovereignty over the islands', ibid., at 92; Toohey speaks consistently of sovereignty in the British Crown or the Crown.
48. G.J. Postema, Bentham and the Common Law Tradition (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), c.1;
49. for fuller discussion Kerruish, supra n. 1, at 72f.
50. T. Hobbes, Leviathan [1651], C.B Macpherson, ed. (Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1968), at 227.
51. But see B. Edgeworth, "Tenure, Allodialism and Indigenous Rights at Common Law", Anglo American Law Review 23 (1994), 397.
52. Supra n. 4, at 140.
53. Supra n. 10, at 12, 13;
54. discussed in Kerruish, supra n. 1, at 73.
55. Kruger and Others v. Commonwealth of Australia (1997) 146 ALR 126 at 161-163.
56. On the link between genocide, racial discrimination and rights to land see Nulyarimma v. Thompson [1999] FCA 1192;
57. for extended discussion Irene Watson, Raw Law: The Coming of the Muldarbi and the Path to its Demise, Ph.D Thesis, University of Adelaide, June 1999, c.5 'Dressed to Kill'.
58. Cp. supra n. 4, at 33-34 per Brennan and at 98 per Dawson.
59. Ibid., at 143.
60. Ibid., at 158.
61. In particular by means of amendments made in 1998 to the Native Title Act (Commonwealth) 1993.
62. Supra n. 1, at 73-76.
63. Supra n. 4, at 18, 50.
64. Ibid., per Brennan at 21-26;
65. Deane and Gaudron at 57-59, 82;
66. Toohey at 141-142.
67. Ibid., at 28.
68. Ibid., at 82.
69. Ibid., at 141-142.
70. Ibid., at 27 per Brennan citing an 1837 Select Committee report to the House of Commons.
71. K. Gilbert, Aboriginal Sovereignty: Justice, Law and Land (Canberra, 1988);
72. excerpted in Voices of Aboriginal Australia: Past, Present and Future comp. I. Moores for the Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Watch Committee (Springwood: Butterfly Books, 1995), at 158-165;
73. P. Coe, 'The Struggle for Aboriginal Sovereignty', Social Alternatives 13:1 (1994), at 19;
74. M. Mansell, 'Towards Aboriginal Sovereignty: Aboriginal Provisional Government', Social Alternatives 13:1 (1994), at 16;
75. I. Watson, supra n. 35, at c. 7.4.
76. Coe v. The Commonwealth (The Wiradjuri Claim) (1993) 68 ALJR 110.
77. Cp. N. Pearson, 'Reconciliation: to be or not to be', Aboriginal Law Bulletin 3:61 (1993), at 14.
78. Supra n. 4, at 41.
79. Ibid., at 136.
80. This limit was tested in Wik Peoples v. State of Queensland and Others (1996) 141 ALR 129 where the contest, over pastoral leases, was very directly concerned with land usage and exploitation. The cautious step taken by a majority of which Brennan was not part toward shared land use unleashed further curtailment of native title.
81. On the concept of person and its effects see V. Kerruish, "Persons and Available Identities: Gender in Hegel's Philosophy of Law", Law and Critique 7 (1996) 153-172;
82. V. Kerruish and J. Purdy, "He Took' Honest - Big White Thief", Law · Text · Culture 4:1 (1998), at 146.
83. For Anglo-Australian law's ongoing difficulties with Aboriginal cultural property see K. Bowrey, "The Outer Limits of Copyright Law - Where Law Meets Philosophy and Culture", Law and Critique 12 (2001), 75-98.
84. I. Watson, supra n. 35, at 348.
85. Supra, n. 4 at 37.
86. Ibid., at 58, 59.
87. Ibid., at 71-75.
88. Ibid., at 111.
89. Ibid., at 96-97.
90. Ibid., at 98.
91. Ibid., at 85.
92. Supra n. 3, at 328; 414.
93. Ibid., at 332; 419.
94. G.W.F. Hegel, Logic: Part One of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1830), trans., W. Wallace (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975) 42f.
95. Supra n. 3, at 332; 419.
96. G. Rose, Hegel contra Sociology (London: Athlone Press, 1981), 112-174.