Biographical entry

Bailey, Kenneth (1898 - 1972)

Sir

Born
03/11/1898
Canterbury, Melbourne, Australia
Died
3/05/1972
Canberra, Australia
Occupation
Dean, Lecturer and Professor
Categories

Summary

Dean of Law 1928-1943

Chronology

1/01/1928 - 1/01/1946
Melbourne Law School Employment

Additional Notes

the University's first Australian-born Dean of Law, the fourth Dean, 1928-46. As a Melbourne University student, Sir Kenneth was awarded the Rhodes scholarship for Victoria in 1919, and graduated in law and arts at Oxford University.
In 1924 he returned to the University, where he was lecturer in history and Vice-Master of Queen's College before becoming Professor of Jurisprudence and then Professor of Public Law. One of his former students and future Law School Dean Sir Zelman Cowen recalled "Bailey's courses were searching, stimulating and complex".

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Publications

Books

  • Bailey, K, God and human life : a study of the christian conception of God, Australian Student Christian Movement, Melbourne, 1929, 31 pp. Details
  • Bailey, K, The statute of Westminster, 1931 : opinion of K.H. Bailey, Government Press, Melbourne, 1935, 62 pp. Details
  • Bailey, K, Marketing and the Constitution, Giblin, L.F., Melbourne University Press in association with Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1937, 24 pp. Details
  • Bailey, K, The abdication legislation in the United Kingdom and in the Dominions, Politica, London, 1938. Details
  • Bailey, K, Why did we go to war? What do we hope to achieve? What sort of peace do we want? : a discussion of these pertinent questions, Victorian Branch of the League of Nations Union, Melbourne, 1939, 16 pp. Details
  • Bailey, K, What are we fighting for?, Sands & McDougall, Perth, 1940, 32 pp. Details
  • Bailey, K, The constitution and its problems, [n.p., 1946?]. , ?, 1946, 18 pp. Details
  • Bailey, K; Eggleston, F, The Peopling of Australia (further studies), Pacific relations series, vol. 4, Melbourne University Press in association with Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1933, 327 pp. Details

Chapters

  • Bailey, K, 'The Working of the Constitution since Federation', in Portus, G.V. (ed.), Studies in the Australian Constitution, Angus & Robertson (in conjunction with the Australian Institute of Political Science), Sydney, 1933, p. 31. Details

Journal Articles

  • Bailey, K, 'Australian Chronicle', Pacific Affairs, vol. 2, no. 9, 1929, p. 553. Details
  • Bailey, K, 'Australia's treaty rights and obligations', Journal of the Society of Comparative Legislation, vol. 11, 1929, p. 190. Details
  • Bailey, K, 'Administrative legislation in the Commonwealth', Australian Law Journal, vol. 4, 1930, p. 7. Details
  • Bailey, K, 'Administrative legislation in the Commonwealth', Australian Law Journal, vol. 4, 1930, p. 38. Details
  • Bailey, K, 'Review', Pacific Affairs, vol. 4, no. 10, 1931, p. 915. Details
  • Bailey, K, 'The Constitution and Economic Policy', Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 158, 1931, p. 236. Details
  • Bailey, K, 'The Statute of Westminster', Australian Law Journal, vol. 5, 1932, p. 398. Details
  • Bailey, K, 'The Statute of Westminster', Australian Law Journal, vol. 5, 1932, p. 362. Details
  • Bailey, K, 'Interstate Free Trade: Some Interim Comments on James v. Cowan', Australian Law Journal, vol. 6, 1932, p. 248. Details
  • Bailey, K, 'Interstate Free Trade: The Expropriation Power and Section 92', Australian Law Journal, vol. 7, 1933, p. 64. Details
  • Bailey, K, 'Interstate Free Trade: The Meaning of Absolutely Free', Australian Law Journal, vol. 7, 1933, p. 103. Details
  • Bailey, K, 'Interstate Free Trade: Recent Decisions and the Next Step', Australian Law Journal, vol. 8, 1934, p. 111. Details
  • Bailey, K, 'The High Court's Jurisdiction in Constitutional Cases', Res Judicatae, vol. 1, no. 2, 1935, p. 81. Details
  • Bailey, K, 'Legal Education in the United States - A Traveller's Notes for a Sketch', Res Judicatae, vol. 1, no. 4, 1935, p. 293. Details
  • Bailey, K, 'Appeals to the Privy Council in Constitutional Cases - A Proposal Examined', Res Judicatae, vol. 1, no. 1, 1935, p. 1. Details
  • Bailey, K, 'Australia - federal states in external relations', The British Year Book of International Law, vol. 18, 1937, p. 175. Details
  • Bailey, K, 'Inconsistency with Paramount Law ', Res Judicatae, vol. 2, no. 1, 1939, p. 9. Details
  • Bailey, K, 'The Federal Jurisdiction of State Courts', Res Judicatae, vol. 2, no. 3, 1939, p. 184. Details
  • Bailey, K, 'The Federal Jurisdiction of State Courts', Res Judicatae, vol. 2, no. 2, 1939, p. 109. Details
  • Bailey, K, 'Dependent Areas of the Pacific: An Australian View ', Foreign Affairs, vol. 24, no. 3, 1946, p. 494. Details
  • Bailey, K.H., 'Australia and the Empire', The Australian Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 1, 1942, pp. 5-18. Details

Report/Working Papers

  • Bailey, K, A Consideration of the interests of the individual nations of the Commonwealth : report, Government Press, Melbourne, 1938, 27 pp. Details

Online Resources