A graduate of the law schools of the universities of Melbourne and Virginia, Michael Sexton SC, spent some years as an academic lawyer before taking up practice at the NSW Bar. Since 1998 he has been Solicitor General for New South Wales. He writes in his recently published memoir On The Edges of History, “When…

Michael Sexton SC is the New South Wales Solicitor-General, appointed in 1998. Apart from his accomplished career at the bar, Michael Sexton is also co-author of the leading Australian text on defamation law, and the author of several books on Australian politics and history. In fact he is known as a prolific writer of political…