Volume 7, Issue 1 (2020) of Law & History, the Society journal, is now available online through institutional databases such as Informit.
It comprises some fascinating legal and historical scholarship. Check out the contents below:
- Philip Girard, The contrasting fates of French Canadian and indigenous constitutionalism: British North America, 1760-1867
- Bevan Marten, Confronting British bullies: Shipping law reform in Australia and New Zealand, 1888-1907
- Tim Soriano, ‘The peculiar circumstances of that settlement’: Burnaby’s code and Royal Naval rule in British Honduras
- Tim Calabria, The bungalow and the transformation of the ‘half-caste’ category in central Australia: Race and law at the limits of a settler colony, 1914-1937
- Anne Maree payne, ‘To the exclusion of the rights of the mother’: Legal barriers to Aboriginal mothering in the stolen generations era
- Emma Bellino, Married women’s nationality and the white Australia policy, 1920-1948
REFLECTIVE ESSAY
Greg Marks, Aboriginal land rights and the Hermannsburg controversy: Implications for self-determination
OBITUARY
Professor Colin Tatz AO (1934-2019) (Christopher Brien)
BOOK REVIEWS
Gender violence in Australia: Historical perspectives (Yves Rees)
Habeas corpus in wartime: From the tower of London to Guantanamo Bay (David Clark)
The lost boys of Mr Dickens: How the British empire turned artful dodgers into child killers (Matthew Allen)