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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Law : Law

730-450 Australian Legal History

Credit Points:

10

Coordinator:

Mr J. Waugh

Prerequisite/s:

History and Philosophy of Law, Torts and Process of Law.

Timetable:

Semester 1

Contact:

2 hours per week

Subject Description:

Introduction: writing Australian legal history; the law of European settlement: Aborigines and convicts; early constitutional change up to self-government; the relationship between English and Australian law up to 1865; sources and methods in legal history research; land law: land selection, land titles and land rights; other topics in nineteenth century Australian law chosen in discussion with students; federation; equality and the law: divorce, married womens' property, franchise, immigration, anti-discrimination legislation; wartime laws: defence power, wartime restrictions, Communist Party dissolution; conciliation and arbitration and related constitutional cases; twentieth-century constitutional history; other topics in twentieth-century Australian law chosen in discussion with students.

Assessment:

Book Review 1000 words (20%); Research Essay 2000 words (40%); Take-home exam (40%).

Prescribed Texts:

  • Bruce Kercher, An Unruly Child: a History of Law in Australia, Allen & Unwin, 1995.
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