Commentary Gabriël A. Moens A.M. is emeritus professor of law at the University of Queensland. As he was confined to his home office, he discovered time to look at his previous works which go back about four decades. To our great benefit he has collected fifteen of these papers and now published them as a book entitled “Enduring Ideas: Contributions to Australian Debates.” The papers consolidated in this book deal with issues and themes which remain more relevant than ever. For example, one of the debates that took place in Australia from the 1960s to the 1980s involved the right of people to disobey laws. Prof. Moens reminds us in Chapter Two (‘On Civil Disobedience,’ 1980) that there are instances of arbitrary policy which can be remedied only through civil disobedience. He starts this important essay by describing civil disobedience as a formal requirement of the legal system. He then …