Melbourne University Press is
publishing a new collection of essays on the significance of legal history to
our understanding of legal processes and institutions.
ABOUT THE BOOK
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 works regularly appearing in specialist journals and scholarly
monographs. This collection seeks to reinvigorate the study of history within
the law school curriculum, by showcasing what students of the law can achieve
when, addressing topics from the use of Magna Carta as history and precedent in
sixteenth-century England to the political manoeuvres behind the failed
impeachment of President Bill Clinton in late twentieth-century America, they
seek to understand legal processes and institutions historically. The volume
comprises outstanding legal history papers authored by graduate (final year JD)
students in the Melbourne Law School. This collection is dedicated to two women
who championed the teaching of legal history at the Melbourne Law School in the
1960s-Dr Ruth Campbell and Mrs Betty Hayes.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Ann O'Connell is
Professor at Melbourne Law School. Her scholarly research and teaching
interests include taxation generally as well as taxation of not-for-profits; and
not-for profits and the law.
Amanda Whiting is an
Associate Professor at Melbourne Law School. Her scholarly research and
teaching traverses the disciplines of History and Law, with particular focus on
early-modern English history, and the legal profession and law reform in
post-colonial Malaysia.
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