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Legal history matters : from Magna Carta to the Clinton impeachment /

As a field of study, legal history has an unsteady place in Australian law schools, yet academic research and writing in the field of legal history and at the intersections of the disciplines of 'law' and history' is undergoing something of a renaissance, with rich and vibrant new wor...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Whiting, Amanda (Editor ), O'Connell, Ann, 1947- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carlton, Victoria, Australia : Melbourne University Publishing, 2020.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / The Hon. Julie Dodds-Streeton QC
  • Introduction / Amanda Whiting and Ann O'Connell
  • Meeting More's challenge: How the Magna Carta helped build a robust Lex Anglicana / Matthew Psycharis
  • Due process or judicial murder? Anne Boleyn's trial placed in context / Lisette Stevens
  • A nineteenth-century view of the Magna Carta / Phoebe Williams
  • Alger Hiss as Cipher: The political and historical legacy of the Hiss case / Samuel O'Connor
  • Guilty of sedition, but innocent of treason: the aftermath of the Eureka Stockade / Xavier Nicolo
  • A symbol, a safeguard, an instrument: reflections on the 1908 'Rush the Commons' trial and the campaign for women's suffrage in early twentieth-century England / Alexandra Harrison-Ichlov
  • The people of the State of New York v Isaac Harris and Max Blanck: putting capitalism on trial / Jack Townsend
  • A voice in the wilderness: revisiting the political trial of Brian Cooper / Simon Pickering
  • Campaigning for a verdict: politics, partisanship and the President on trial / Katharine Kilroy.