ABSTRACT
This chapter takes up two long-standing topics in the disciplines of law and of the humanities: the appropriate conduct (officia) of public life and office, and the creation of ways of co-existence between non-Indigenous and Indigenous peoples and nations of Australia. In doing so, it re-uses the resources of humanist jurisprudence and rhetoric to consider the quality of relations of law that might be sustained within the office, or institutional role, of the transnational jurisprudent and diplomat of the common law tradition.
