The Rule of Recognition as a Foundational Secondary Rule

This week on Secondary Rules, Joshua Neoh and Ryan Goss talk about parliamentary sovereignty, the latest on Scott Morrison’s secret ministries, what H.L.A. Hart had to say about Joshua’s driving, and why this podcast is called Secondary Rules in the first place.

• Goss, What Do Australians Talk About When They Talk About ‘Parliamentary Sovereignty’?
• Dicey, Introduction to the study of the law of the constitution
• Solicitor-General’s Opinion, August 2022.
• Hart, The Concept of Law
• Green and Adams, "Legal Positivism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2019)

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