Past law, present histories /
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Canberra, Acton, A.C.T. :
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2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary; Introduction: Interdisciplinarity in the Study of Law's History. Diane Kirkby; I. Law and Colonialism; Redemption, Colonialism and International Criminal Law: The Nineteenth Century Slave-Trading Trials of Samo and Peters. Emily Haslam; Linguistics, Religion and Law in Colonial New South Wales: Lancelot Threlkeld and Settler-Colonial Humanitarian Debates. Anna Johnston; 'Destitute of the knowledge of God': Māori Testimony Before the New Zealand Courts in the Early Crown Colony Period. Shaunnagh Dorsett; II. Law in Community.
- Public Opinion, Private Remonstrance, and the Law: Protecting Animals in Australia, 1803-1914. Stefan PetrowUsing the Law: Working-Class Communities and Carnal Knowledge Cases in Victoria, 1900-06. Jennifer Anderson; Reading Past Cases of Child Cruelty in the Present: The Use of the Parental Right to Discipline in New Zealand Court Trials, 1890-1902. Debra Powell; Women, Children and Violence in Aboriginal Law: Some Perspectives From the Southeast Queensland Frontier. Libby Connors; III. Law as Theory and Practice.
- How to Write Feminist Legal History: Some Notes on Genealogical Method, Family Law, and the Politicsof the Present. Ann GenoveseSpain's 'pact of silence' and the Removal of Franco's Statues. Aleksandra Hadzelek; 'The sailor is a human being':Labour Market Regulation and the Australian Navigation Act 1912. Diane Kirkby; Parental 'Consent' to Child Removal in Stolen Generations Cases. Thalia Anthony and Honni van Rijswijk; Contributors; Bibliography.