Andrew Inglis ClarkPrimary architect of Australia's constitution
Continuing Influence
Establishment of a university for Tasmanians
Andrew Inglis Clark supported the establishment of the University in Tasmania in 1889. He played a critical role in parliament in fending off a cost-cutting measure that would have stifled it at birth.
From 1901 to 1903 he served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Tasmania. His tenure was short, for he resigned in 1903 and died four years later.
Clark's legacy
Andrew Inglis Clark's contribution and legacy continues to be studied, researched and discussed at the Universtiy of Tasmania.
The Andrew Inglis Clark Scholarhip in Law and History honours Clark's contributions to the formation of the Australian Constitution.
Scholarship from the College of Arts Law and Education, schools of Law and Humanities includes
- Professor Henry Reynold's, public lecture Andrew Inglis Clark: The Tasmanian Prophet of the Coming Republic. argues that alone among the so-called Fathers of Federation, Andrew Inglis Clark was a staunch republican which makes him a prophet whose ideas have contemporary agency.
- Kirby, M 2015, Reviving the memory of Andrew Inglis Clark: An unfinished federal project, University of Tasmania Law Review, Vol. 34, No. 2, 2015: 92-113.
- Williams, G 2015 Recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in the Constitution, University of Tasmania Law Review, Vol. 34, No.2, 2015:114, This paper is based on the Inaugural Andrew Inglis Clark Lecture delivered at Tasmanian Parliament House, 7 July 2015.
- Neasey, FM & Neasey, LJ, 2001, Andrew Inglis Clark, University of Tasmania Law Press, Hobart, ISBN 9780859019644
- Ely, RG 2001 A Living Force. Andrew Inglis Clark and the Ideal of Commonwealth, Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies, Hobart, pp. 419. ISBN 0859019667 [Edited Book]
- Warden, J and Haward, M 1991 , A Tasmanian Democrat: The Life and Legacy of Andrew Inglis Clark, paper presented at the A Tasmanian Democrat, September 28-29 1991, University of Tasmania.