L K Weis

Situating Legislated Rights: legislative and judicial role in contemporary constitutional theory

Lael K Weis

Journal article  |  2020  |  JURISPRUDENCE-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LEGAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT

THE CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICE OF THE LEGISLATURE

Lael K Weis

Journal article  |  2020  |  UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO LAW JOURNAL

This article argues that constitutional theory requires the concept of 'constitutional office' to theorize the place of the legisl..

Legislative Constitutional Baselines

Lael K Weis

Journal article  |  2019  |  The Sydney Law Review

'Constitutional baselines' are interpretive tools that are widely used in constitutional reasoning, although often implicit and un..

Constitutionally obligatory legislation: A case study in legal constitutionalism

LK Weis

Book Chapter  |  2019

In recent years there has been increasing interest in the study of the boundary space between constitutional law and legislation f..

Environmental constitutionalism: Aspiration or transformation?

Lael K Weis

Journal article  |  2018  |  ICON-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

A striking feature of environmental constitutional provisions is that state obligations are predominantly entrenched using contraj..

Property

L Weis

Book Chapter  |  2018

The protection of private property from arbitrary confiscation is canonically cited as among the few examples of an express rights..

Constitutional Directive Principles

Lael K Weis

Journal article  |  2017  |  OXFORD JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES

This article is the first step toward developing a general and systematic account of constitutional directive principles. Directiv..

Does Australia Need a Popular Constitutional Culture?

Lael K Weis

Book Chapter  |  2017

‘On Just Terms’, Revisited

Lael K Weis

Journal article  |  2017  |  Federal Law Review

Although it is now generally accepted that s 51(xxxi) is a constitutional guarantee, it continues to be applied using characterisa..

Constituting 'the People': The Paradoxical Place of the Formal Amendment Procedure in Australian Constitutionalism

L WEIS

Book Chapter  |  2017