Principles of Australian Constitutional Law, now in its fifth edition, is a popular textbook aimed at students and practitioners that is now prescribed or recommended in many Australian law schools. It provides helpful summaries of the key cases and an analysis that helps readers to understand contemporary Australian constitutionalism.
Even accepting that constitutional law has continued to develop since this book was published (for example, Love v Commonwealth of Australia; Thoms v Commonwealth of Australia [2020] HCA 3, Comcare v Banerji [2019] HCA 23 and more broadly Smethurst v Commissioner of Police [2020] HCA 14) and the corresponding need to ensure that the law is current when applying or analysing it, this work remains a work useful for both students and practitioners alike. Topics are clearly set out and explained, underlying principles examined, and there is a fair balance between sufficient depth and summarising the material.