Professor Peter Edwards is embarking on a new research project: The Judge as Policy-Maker: A Biography of Robert Marsden Hope.
This project is a biographical study of Robert Marsden Hope (1919-1999), a NSW Supreme Court judge who was appointed by three successive Prime Ministers – Gough Whitlam, Malcolm Fraser and Bob Hawke – to conduct two Royal Commissions and a judicial inquiry in the Australian intelligence and security services. Read more>>






