Margaret Stone: Legal Scholar, Jurist and Philosopher - Why Property Law Is "Beautiful" and Its Influence on Legal Thinking and Development.

The Honourable Margaret Stone AO FAAL was a scholar, academic, teacher, practitioner, Judge, Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, leader and mentor. Throughout her career she taught, advised and adjudicated on matters that spanned the breadth of Australian law. In the inaugural Margaret Stone Lecture, Justice Michelle Gordon AC reflects on Margaret Stone's life in the law. The Lecture explores Margaret Stone's profound contribution to Australian property law, an area which she once observed "fascinated" because of its history and development, and because of how it challenges "how we think about law". The Lecture is a celebration of how Margaret Stone thought and the lasting impact of that thinking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]