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730-450 Australian Legal History | |
Credit Points | 10 |
Coordinator | Mr J. Waugh |
Prerequisites | Torts and Process of Law; History and Philosophy of Law. |
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%). |
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