Bruce Kercher

An Unruly Child (eBook, ePUB)

A history of law in Australia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Provocative history of Australian law since white settlement.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000248470
• Artikelnr.: 59870006

Autorenporträt

Bruce Kercher is Associate Professor of Law at Macquarie University and has published widely in the history of Australian law.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations viii
Preface ix
Introduction: English flotsam xi
PART I FRONTIER LAW 1
1 Aboriginal subjects of the Crown - 3
2 The contradictions of convict law - 22
3 Amateur law at the frontier - 43
PART II IMPERIAL ORTHODOXY, 1820-1900 65
4 Innovation smothered? Formal changes from the 1820s to the 1850s - 67
5 The power of the judges: judicial review and the attachment to England -
82
6 Repugnant legislation: law making from 1824 to responsible government -
103
7 Colonial freedom: law making between responsible government and 1900 -
124
PART III FEDERATION: DEFERENCE AND INDEPENDENCE 155
8 Creeping towards legal independence, 1901-1960 - 157
9 The rebirth of Australian legal doctrine, 1960-1995 - 177
Notes and sources 206
Index 243