Past Law, Present Histories
Edited by: Diane KirkbyPlease read Conditions of use before downloading the formats.
Description
This collection brings methods and questions from humanities, law and social sciences disciplines to examine different instances of lawmaking. Contributors explore the problematic of past law in present historical analysis across indigenous Australia and New Zealand, from post-Franco Spain to current international law and maritime regulation, from settler colonial humanitarian debates to efforts to end cruelty to children and animals. They highlight problems both national and international in their implication. From different disciplines and theoretical positions, they illustrate the diverse and complex study of law’s history.
Details
- ISBN (print):
- 9781922144027
- ISBN (online):
- 9781922144034
- Publication date:
- Sep 2012
- Imprint:
- ANU Press
- DOI:
- http://doi.org/10.22459/PLPH.09.2012
- Series:
- Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG)
- Co-publisher:
- The Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG)
- Disciplines:
- Arts & Humanities: History, Linguistics; Law; Social Sciences: Gender Studies, Indigenous Studies
- Countries:
- Australia; Europe: Spain; Pacific: New Zealand
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- Preliminary (PDF, 260KB)
- Introduction: Interdisciplinarity in the Study of Law’s History (PDF, 112KB) – Diane Kirkby
I. Law and Colonialism
- Redemption, Colonialism and International Criminal Law: The Nineteenth Century Slave-Trading Trials of Samo and Peters (PDF, 173KB) – Emily Haslam doi
- Linguistics, Religion and Law in Colonial New South Wales: Lancelot Threlkeld and Settler-Colonial Humanitarian Debates (PDF, 168KB) – Anna Johnston doi
- ‘Destitute of the knowledge of God’: Māori Testimony Before the New Zealand Courts in the Early Crown Colony Period (PDF, 207KB) – Shaunnagh Dorsett doi
II. Law in Community
- Public Opinion, Private Remonstrance, and the Law: Protecting Animals in Australia, 1803–1914 (PDF, 257KB) – Stefan Petrow doi
- Using the Law: Working-Class Communities and Carnal Knowledge Cases in Victoria, 1900–06 (PDF, 178KB) – Jennifer Anderson doi
- Reading Past Cases of Child Cruelty in the Present: The Use of the Parental Right to Discipline in New Zealand Court Trials, 1890–1902 (PDF, 520KB) – Debra Powell doi
- Women, Children and Violence in Aboriginal Law: Some Perspectives From the Southeast Queensland Frontier (PDF, 149KB) – Libby Connors doi
III. Law as Theory and Practice
- How to Write Feminist Legal History: Some Notes on Genealogical Method, Family Law, and the Politics of the Present (PDF, 155KB) – Ann Genovese doi
- Spain’s ‘pact of silence’ and the Removal of Franco’s Statues (PDF, 197KB) – Aleksandra Hadzelek doi
- ‘The sailor is a human being’: Labour Market Regulation and the Australian Navigation Act 1912 (PDF, 158KB) – Diane Kirkby doi
- Parental ‘Consent’ to Child Removal in Stolen Generations Cases (PDF, 164KB) – Thalia Anthony and Honni van Rijswijk doi
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