Overview

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.

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Author:   Diane Kirkby
Publisher:   ANU Press
Imprint:   ANU Press
ISBN:  

9781922144027

ISBN 10:   1922144029
Publication Date:   01 September 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Interdisciplinarity in the Study of Law's History I. Law and Colonialism Redemption, Colonialism and International Criminal Law: The Nineteenth Century Slave-Trading Trials of Samo and Peters Linguistics, Religion and Law in Colonial New South Wales: Lancelot Threlkeld and Settler-Colonial Humanitarian Debates 'Destitute of the knowledge of God’: Māori Testimony Before the New Zealand Courts in the Early Crown Colony Period II. Law in Community Public Opinion, Private Remonstrance, and the Law: Protecting Animals in Australia, 1803–1914 Using the Law: Working-Class Communities and Carnal Knowledge Cases in Victoria, 1900–06 Reading Past Cases of Child Cruelty in the Present: The Use of the Parental Right to Discipline in New Zealand Court Trials, 1890–1902 Women, Children and Violence in Aboriginal Law: Some Perspectives From the Southeast Queensland Frontier 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 Spain’s ‘pact of silence’ and the Removal of Franco’s Statues ‘The sailor is a human being’: Labour Market Regulation and the Australian Navigation Act 1912 Parental ‘Consent’ to Child Removal in Stolen Generations Cases

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