Following the September 1 l terrorist attacks on New York and Wash ington, Congress rushed into action and quickly passed antiterrorism legis lation known as the USA Patriot Act. The Patriot Act has been widely understood as a\sweeping\ antiterrorism law that gave the government vast new powers to conduct electronic surveillance over the Internet The Act's surveillance provisions proved so controversial that Congress added a sunset provision that will nullify several of its key provisions after
INTERNATIONAL LAW AS A TOOL OF CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION Kristen Walker' INTRODUCTION In series of judgments in the past five years Justice Kirby has developed an interpretive principle concerning the use of international law in constitutional interpretation. He has adapted the words of Brennan J in Mabo v Queensland [No 2]'to formulate the proposition that: The common law, and constitutiona