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Legal history matters : from Magna Carta to the Clinton impeachment / edited by Amanda Whiting & Ann O'Connell.
Whiting, Amanda editor.; O'Connell, Ann (Law teacher), editor.
2020
K145 .L45 2020 (Map It)
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Title
Legal history matters : from Magna Carta to the Clinton impeachment / edited by Amanda Whiting & Ann O'Connell.
Published
Victoria : Melbourne University Press, 2020.
Call Number
K145 .L45 2020
ISBN
0522877575
9780522877571
9780522877137 (paperback)
0522877133 (paperback)
9780522877144 (ebook)
Description
x, 243 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1155483923
Summary
As a field of study, legal history has an unsteady place in Australian law schools, yet academic research and writing in the field of legal history and at the intersections of the disciplines of 'law' and history' is undergoing something of a renaissance, with rich and vibrant new works regularly appearing in specialist journals and scholarly monographs. This collection seeks to reinvigorate the study of history within the law school curriculum by showcasing what students of the law can achieve when they seek to understand legal processes and institutions historically. Addressing topics from the use of Magna Carta as history and precedent in sixteenth-century Englad to the political manoeuvres behind the failed impeachment of President Bill Clinton in late twentieth-century America, the volume comprises outstanding legal history papers authored by graduate (final year JD) students in the Melbourne Law School.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Whiting, Amanda editor.
O'Connell, Ann (Law teacher), editor.
Foreword / The Hon. Julie Dodds-Streeton QC
Introduction / Amanda Whiting and Ann O'Connell
Meeting More's challenge: How the Magna Carta helped build a robust Lex Anglicana / Matthew Psycharis
Due process or judicial murder? Anne Boleyn's trial placed in context / Lisette Stevens
A nineteenth-century view of the Magna Carta / Phoebe Williams
Alger Hiss as Cipher: The political and historical legacy of the Hiss case / Samuel O'Connor
Guilty of sedition, but innocent of treason: the aftermath of the Eureka Stockade / Xavier Nicolo
A symbol, a safeguard, an instrument: reflections on the 1908 'Rush the Commons' trial and the campaign for women's suffrage in early twentieth-century England / Alexandra Harrison-Ichlov
The people of the State of New York v Isaac Harris and Max Blanck: putting capitalism on trial / Jack Townsend
A voice in the wilderness: revisiting the political trial of Brian Cooper / Simon Pickering
Campaigning for a verdict: politics, partisanship and the President on trial / Katharine Kilroy.

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