Beyond the pale

Rethinking the fences between us

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  • Published 20180501
  • ISBN: 9781925603323
  • Extent: 264pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbours.’

Robert Frost, ‘Mending Wall’

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Alex Reilly

Alex Reilly is a professor of law and the director of the Public Law & Policy Research Unit at the University of Adelaide. He...

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