Pericleans, Plumbers and Practitioners: The First Fifty Years of the Monash University Law School

When the urbane, learned and widely liked David Derham accepted the invitation to establish the second university law school in Victoria, he wrote to a friend of the challenge ahead, ‘I am probably mad to do it but will have some compensating fun no doubt’. As the foundation dean, Derham achieved his vision of establishing a new law school with an innovative curriculum, a firstrate staff recruited from around the world and a state of the art building constructed around Victoria’s best law l...