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Past law, present histories /

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 curren...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kirkby, Diane Elizabeth (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Canberra, ACT, Australia : Australian National University E Press, [2012]
Colección:Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.