Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society

There is a CFP out for “Reflections on Magna Carta in Australasia”, to be held at the University of Canterbury, NZ, 2-4 December 2015. Deadline for abstracts is 15 June, and the Magna Carta CFP has further details.

Members may not have seen the call for EOIs to write a history of responsible government in NSW. Closing date is soon – Monday May 25 – and info can be found here:

Just a reminder, that its this Monday at UTS, Building 5B (Quay Street), Rm 3.18 at 6 pm. Please do try to come!

As noted in the first post on this blog, we hope to use this site to draw attention to the fabulous histories written by our members. So to kick off we have a new book and a chapter.

Congrats to Libby Connors on the publication of her book Warrior: A Legendary Leader’s Dramatic Life and Violent Death on the Colonial Frontier, Allen & Unwin 2015. Available in real book and handy e-pub I note!

Congrats also to Mel Keenan on his chapter “The Western Legal Response to Sorcery in Colonial Papua New Guinea” in Forsyth and Eves (eds) Talking it Through: Responses to Sorcery and Witchcraft Beliefs and Practices in Melanesia (ANU e-press).

Do send along info on new publications!

A couple of updates from the organisers of the December conference. The draft program is soon to be released. As well, unfortunately Wes Pue will be unable to join us as a keynote as advertised, but excitingly Lyndsay Campbell from Calgary has been confirmed as the final keynote.

For our NZ members. The New Zealand Magna Carta 800th Committee has announced a prize for school and university students, deadline 1 May. You may wish to draw this to the attention of your students.

For more information here is a flyer: Attorney-General Magna Carta 800 Essay Competition- Further details and entry form[3].

A reminder that the deadline for abstracts for the ANZLHS Conference in December is almost upon us – March 31. More information can be found in the conference menu.

We are calling for expressions of interest from members who want to take part in the biannual swop panel with the ASLH. The 2015 meeting is in Eashington DC in the last week of October. More information can be found on the ASLH website. As this is a swop panel, proposals will need to be for a full panel (three presenters) + a chair and commentator. Presenters will be remitted the conference fee and some funding may be available from our society. The deadline for the ASLH panel proposals is mid March. So if you are interested please send an abstract for the panel and three individual paper abstracts, as well as the name of your chair and commentator to Shaunnagh.Dorsett@uts.edu.au or Jason.Taliadoros@deakin.edu.au no later than the nd of the first week of March. The final decision rests with the ANZLHS Executive.

its a great conference, so think about putting a panel together!

So that we can get news and information to our members faster we have decided to establish a new blog/website. This replaces the old ANZLHS website (thank you to Waikato for hosting it for so long) and the newsletter. Now we will be able to provide updates on conferences, CFPs, new publications and information on what our members are doing much more quickly. So please call back. You can also sign up to receive information updates via email if you prefer.  Let us know what other information you would like to see on this page. We hope that this will enable you to stay in touch more easily with what is happening in legal history in ANZ and further afield.