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Books

  • Federal Jurisdiction in Australia Federation Press (2nd ed with Z Cowen 1997. 3rd ed 2002)
  • The High Court and the Constitution (1st ed, Butterworth 1981. 5th ed Federation Press 2008)
  • The Royal Prerogative (with H V Evatt) Law Book Company 1987)
  • Constitutional Change in the Commonwealth, Commonwealth lectures delivered at the University of Cambridge on 8, 15, and 22 November 1988 (CUP 1991)
  • Constitutional Change in the Commonwealth (CUP 2003) Transfer of 1991 book to digital format with 2006 printing on demand

Articles and Contributions to Edited Works

  • "Principles of Australian Administrative Law by W. Friedmann" Book review (1964) 1 Federal Law Review 172-76
  • "Commentaries on the Australian Constitution : a tribute to Geoffrey Sawer" (ed.) (Butterworths 1977)
  • "Implications of the Tasmanian Dam case" Papers presented at the 22nd Australian Legal Convention, Law Council of Australia (1983) 215-218
  • "The state of constitutional interpretation" (1984) 14 Federal Law Review 277- 239
  • "The Commonwealth" (1987) 6 Australian Bar Review 257 – 266
  • "Reviewing the constitution" (1987) 61 Australian Law Journal 530 – 539
  • "Form and substance: ‘discrimination’ in modern constitutional law" (1992) 21 Federal Law Review 136 – 149
  • Courts Unmaking the Laws in Australian Institute of Judicial Administration (Ed) National Conference: Courts in a Representative Democracy (1994) at 13
  • "A Judicially Created Bill of Rights" (1994) 16 Sydney Law Review 166-184
  • Constitutionally Protected Individual Rights, in P. Finn (ed.) Essays on Law and Government. (196) Volume 2 136-
  • "Social conflict and constitutional interpretation" (1996) 22 Monash University Law Review 195 – 208.
  • Commentaries on the Australian Constitution – A tribute to Geoffrey Sawer (ed.) (Butterworths 1997)
  • "The Nature of the Commonwealth" (1998) 20 Adelaide Law Review , 83- 94.
  • The common law in Australia : its nature and constitutional significance Law and policy paper (1999) 13 (Federation Press in association with the Centre for International and Public Law, Australian National University
  • "Sir Anthony Mason" (2000) 28 Federal. Law Review 171-175.
  • Gleeson Court, in The Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia, 307, (Tony Blackshield et al. eds. 2001)
  • "The Common Law in Australia: Its Nature and Constitutional Significance" 2004 32 (3) Federal Law Review 337-355.
  • "Dead Hands of Living Tree? Stability and Change in Constitutional Law" (2004) 25 Adelaide Law Review 3 – 20.
  • "The inherent executive power of the Commonwealth" (2005) 16 Public Law Review 279- 293.
  • "The High Court and the Constitution in 2006" (2007) 30 University of New South Wales Law Journal 174 – 187
  • "Advisory opinions and declaratory judgments at the suit of governments" (2010) 22 Bond Law Review 156-168