AUSPUBLAW is pleased to publish this book forum on Nicholas Petrie and Julian R Murphy’s edited collection Public Law and Criminal Law in Australia: Overlap, Intersection and Inconsistency (Federation Press, 2025). In this forum, the editors provide an introductory post, and Gabrielle Appleby, Chris Carr SC, Minh-Quan Nguyen and Malcolm Thorburn offer their thoughts on the book.
The posts in this series are:
Nicholas Petrie and Julian R Murphy, The beginning of a conversation – Criminal law and the broader field of Australian public law
Gabrielle Appleby, Criminal Law as Public Law – Public Law and Criminal Law in Australia book forum
Chris Carr SC and Minh-Quan Nguyen, Overlaps and intersections in theory and in practice – Public Law and Criminal Law in Australia book forum
Malcolm Thorburn, What do we mean by 'public law' when we say that 'criminal law is public law'? – Public Law and Criminal Law in Australia book forum