Biographical entry

Sawer, Geoffrey (1910 - 1996)

Officer of the Order of Australia

Born
21/12/1910
Maymo, Myanmar (then Burma)
Died
8/08/1996
Guerilla Bay, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Dean, Professor and Solicitor
Categories

Chronology

1/01/1940 - 1/01/1949
Melbourne Law School Employment

Additional Notes

1934-1940 Resident Tutor, Ormond College, University of Melbourne
1940 appointed Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Melbourne [thought to be the first full-time sub-professorial position in an Australian law school*]
1950-74 first Professor of Law, Research School of Social Sciences, ANU College of Law where he was Dean 1951-6

Source: Biographical Note, Guide to the Papers of Geoffrey Sawer, MS 2688, National Library of Australia, 2000
http://www.nla.gov.au/ms/findaids/2688.html

*Coper, Michael. "Geoffrey Sawer and the Art of the Academic Commentator: A Preliminary Biographical Sketch," Federal Law Review vol. 42, no. 2 (2014): p. 389-420. at 400

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Publications

Books

  • Sawer, G, Australian Government Today, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Vic, 1948. Details
  • Sawer, G, Cases on the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia [also titled: Australian constitutional cases], Law Book Co of Australasia, Sydney, 1948. Details
  • Sawer, G, Australian Government Today, 2nd edn, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Vic, 1949. Details
  • Sawer, G, A guide to Australian law for journalists, authors, printers and publishers, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1949. Details

Journal Articles

  • Sawer, G, 'Bankruptcy Act, s. 95 – Preference to sureties', Australian Law Journal, vol. 13, 1939, p. 13. Details
  • Sawer, G, 'Conflict of Laws- Essential Validity of Marriage', Res Judicatae, vol. 2, no. 2, 1939, p. 125. Details
  • Sawer, G, 'Autrefois Acquit and Decision Not on the Merits', Res Judicatae, vol. 2, no. 3, 1939, p. 203. Details
  • Sawer, G, 'Bankruptcy Act, 1924-1933—Relation Back and Protection to Purchasers', Australian Law Journal, vol. 13, 1940, p. 438. Details
  • Sawer, G, 'The blackout cases and their relation to administrative law', Australian Law Journal, vol. 15, 1941, p. 103. Details
  • Sawer, G, 'Injunction, Parliamentary Process and the Restriction of Parliamentary Competence', Law Quarterly Review, vol. 60, no. 1, 1944, p. 83. Details
  • Sawer, G, 'The Privy Council, the High Court and Section 92', Res Judicatae, vol. 3, no. 3, 1946, p. 155. Details
  • Sawer, G, 'Law and Orders', Res Judicatae, vol. 3, no. 2, 1946, p. 80. Details
  • Sawer, G, 'The defence power of the Commonwealth in time of war', Australian Law Journal, vol. 20, 1946, p. 295. Details
  • Sawer, G, 'Ratio Decidendi and Obiter Dictum in Appellate Courts', Law Quarterly Review, vol. 63, no. 4, 1947, p. 461. Details
  • Sawer, G, 'Implication and the Constitution- Part II', Res Judicatae, vol. 4, no. 2, 1948, p. 85. Details
  • Sawer, G, 'Price control and the validity of contracts', Australian Law Journal, vol. 22, 1948, p. 173. Details
  • Sawer, G, 'Implication and the Constitution- Part I', Res Judicatae, vol. 4, no. 1, 1948, p. 15. Details
  • Sawer, G, 'Bank of New South Wales and Others v. Commonwealth', Australian Law Journal, vol. 22, 1948, p. 213. Details
  • Sawer, G, 'The Judicial Power of the Commonwealth', University of Western Australia Annual Law Review, vol. 1, no. 1, 1948, p. 29. Details
  • Sawer, G, 'Some Problems in the Law of Copyright', Res Judicatae, vol. 4, no. 3, 1948, p. 155. Details
  • Sawer, G, 'The transitional defence power of the Commonwealth', Australian Law Journal, vol. 23, 1949, p. 255. Details
  • Sawer, G, 'The Case of Bank Nationalization', Journal of Comparative Legislation and International Law, vol. 32, 1950, p. 17. Details
  • Sawer, G, 'Legal Education in the United States', University of Western Australia Annual Law Review, vol. 1, no. 3, 1950, p. 398. Details
  • Sawer, Geoffrey, 'An Early Australian Case', The Australian Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 1, 1942, pp. 107-109. Details
  • Sawer, Geoffrey, 'Recent Decisions Affecting Pulic Administration', Australia Journal of Public Administration, vol. 5, no. 1, 1944, p. 15. Details
  • Sawer, Geoffrey, 'The Law and Administration: A Review of Recent Legal Decisions Affecting Public Administration', Australian Journal of Public Administration, vol. 6, no. 1, 1946, pp. 5-11. Details

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