A legal history for Australia
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A legal history for Australia
Hart, 2021
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Summary: "This is a contemporary legal history book for Australian law students, written in an engaging style and rich with learning features and illustrations. The writers are a unique combination of talents, bringing together their fields of research and teaching in Australian history, British constitutional history and modern Australian law. The first part provides the social and political contexts for legal history in medieval and early modern England and America, explaining the English law which came to Australia in 1788. This includes: The origins of the common law The growth of the legal profession The making of the Magna Carta The English Civil Wars The Bill of Rights The American War of Independence. ..."
Contents of Works
- The origins of the common law
- The intellectual life of the law and lawyers from the middle ages to Edward Coke
- The English revolutions : parliament, the king, and the law courts
- Responsible government, law, and justice in eighteenth-century England
- The American constitutional settlement
- Reform of British Parliament, society, and courts in nineteenth-century England
- The reception of English law in Australia
- Self-government and law in colonial Australia
- Indigenous Australia and the law in the colonial period
- Federation
- Australian constitutional independence and legal developments of the twentieth century
- The painful legacy of colonialism : aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people and the law in modern Australia