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Australia's greatest jurist: Philip Ayres' Owen Dixon. (Law).(Biography)
SIR OWEN DIXON possessed the most formidable legal mind in all of our history. If there was a Nobel Prize for reasoning he was the most likely Australian to have been a recipient. Amongst the philosophers of the world, and particularly amongst the lawyers, over the first seven decades of the twentieth century, his particular genius for reasoning and power and clarity of expression placed him in the first rank.
For those of us attracted by intellectual sex appeal, and for whom that is not just a function of age, his judgments and essays retain their allure to this day, even in respects in which opinion has moved in a direction of which Sir Owen would have ...
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