A review of Laura Bennett’s book making labour law in Australia

In Making Labour Law in Australia, Laura Bennett (1994) disputes orthodox legal scholarship's conviction that received Australian I abour law is immutable. Bennett considers that courts, tribunals, employers and political parties are institutions which create labour law, and claims to have identified how each institution develops this law. The economic and political context of each legal institution's role, not the institutions per se, are considered to determine labour law. Labour law is perceivedas a "social phenomena with distinctive legal characteristics". This is considered an important departure from the traditional legal scholarly pre-occupation with how labour law doctrines are developed or statutes revised.