The Cambridge legal history of Australia / edited by Peter Cane, University of Cambridge; Lisa Ford, University of New South Wales, Sydney; Mark McMillan, independent scholar.
2022
KU120 .C36 2022 (Mapit)
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The Cambridge legal history of Australia / edited by Peter Cane, University of Cambridge; Lisa Ford, University of New South Wales, Sydney; Mark McMillan, independent scholar.
Imprint
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Description
xvii, 794 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
Summary
"The editorial project we set for ourselves was to assemble a legal history of Australia. As this continent has been occupied by human communities for more than 60,000 years, this is, of course, an impossible task. We have approached it cautiously and partially. The essays in this volume explore encounters of laws, people and place in Australia since 1788. They address at least three distinct aspects of this broad topic. One concerns the complex unfolding of Australian settler law in the shadow of the British Empire. It begins with the fundamental tenet of British imperial law - that English law applied in settled colonies to the extent that it was appropriate to local circumstances and conditions. Many of the essays in the volume go on to explore the employment and adaptation of inherited laws and ideologies for the legal project of settler nationbuilding after federation. A second aspect of the broad theme of encounter concerns interaction between settler law and First Nations people: it concerns ways in which and the extent to which introduced and adapted laws were applied to Aboriginal and Torres"-- Provided by publisher.
Note
Editor's introduction / Peter Cane, Lisa Ford, and Mark Macmillan -- Plural legal orders : concept and practice / Shaunnagh Dorsett -- English legal culture in the late 18th century : institutions and values / David Lieberman -- Challenging settler state legal fantasies: basic precepts of first law / Mary Spiers Williams -- Colonial settlement to colony / Bruce Kercher -- Colonial self government / Ann Curthoys and Jessie Mitchell -- Federation / Brendan Lim -- Constitutionalism in Australia / Cheryl Saunders -- Indigenous governance. Mparntwe/Alice Springs: towards a history of Indigenous and settler jurisdictions / Tim Rowse and Jennifer Green --Gunditjmara and Ngarrindjeri: case studies of Indigenous self-government / Daryle Rigney, Denis Rose, Alison Vivian, Miriam Jorgensen, Steve Hemming and Shaun Berg -- The challenge of indigenous polities / Kirsty Gover and Eddie Cubillo -- Australia as Empire / Miranda Johnson and Cait Storr -- Australia and the world / Coel Kirkby -- Settlement and dispossession / Lisa Ford and David Andrew Roberts -- Australian land law / Maureen Tehan -- Aboriginal land rights, subjection, and the law / Amanda Kearney -- Land justice / Jason Behrendt and Sean Brennan -- Environment / Ruth A Morgan and Judith Jones -- Colonial law and its control of aboriginal and Torres Strait islander families / Terri Libesman, Katherine Ellinghaus, and Paul Gray -- The legal history of non-indigenous marriage / Alecia Simmonds -- Protection regimes / Amanda Nettelbeck -- Economic and social welfare / Anne O'Brien -- Civil rights and indigenous people / Gary Foley and Crystal McKinnon -- Rights / Frank Bongiorno -- Citizenship and immigration / Rayner Thwaites -- Criminal law and the administration of justice in early New South Wales and Van Diemen's land / David Andrew Roberts -- Criminal justice after the convicts : a history of the long twentieth century / Andy Kaladelfos and Alana Piper -- Indigenous peoples and settler criminal law / Mark Finnane -- Civil wrongs / Mark Lunney -- Labour law / Diane Kirkby -- Place and race in Australian copyright law : May Gibbs' and Albert Namatjira's copyright / Kathy Bowrey -- Indigenous legal traditions and Australian indigenous legal traditions / Nicole Watson -- Reckoning with the past / Shino Konishi.
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Online version: Cambridge legal history of Australia Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022
Call Number
KU120 .C36 2022
Language
English
ISBN
9781108499224 (hardcover)
1108499228 (hardcover)
9781108633949 (ebook)
9781108599894 (PDF ebook)
1108499228 (hardcover)
9781108633949 (ebook)
9781108599894 (PDF ebook)
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