Newcastle, Australia
Welcome to the web-site of the 18th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society.
On this page you will find links to information about the Conference Program, Registration, Travel, Accommodation, Newcastle and the local region. There are also links to sites concerned with Legal History and Native Title. All these links are located at the bottom of this page.
Just added! Conference papers
Keynote Speakers:
The principal theme of this year's conference is property and politics, with particular reference to the question of native title, and related themes of family and inheritance, empire and identity, and the role of information technology in legal history. With more than 50 papers, speakers from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and South Africa, and a large number of comparative studies of native title and indigenous property rights, this year's conference promises to be an exciting event.
Reflecting the interdisciplinarity of the conference, panels include papers on property rights in settler frontier societies, English farmers and the game laws of the 19th century,
religious freedom and the land question in 20th century Canada, women and the law in colonial India, aboriginal sovereignty in Australia,
native title and the origins of international law, property rights and the politics of takings in the US, international law and the Cuban missile crisis, and many others.
In addition, there will be a plenary session on lawyers and legal culture, and a panel on the role of information technology in legal history.
These will be supplemented by more papers as they come in. Check back
regularly.
Andrew Buck, Politics Program, Department of Economics, University of Newcastle
Nancy Wright, Department of English, University of Newcastle
email:ecarb@cc.newcastle.edu.au
email:elnew@cc.newcastle.edu.au
Overseas delegates include:
- David Sugarman, Law, Lancaster University, UK
- Louise Mandell QC, Mandell Pinder Barristers, Vancouver, Canada
- Stuart Rush QC, Rush Crane Guenther Barristers, Vancouver, Canada
- Paul Kens, Political Science and History, Southwest Texas University USA
- David Wishart, Geography, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
- Asma Hassan, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa
- John Weaver, History, McMaster University, Canada
- Laura Brace, Political Science, Leicester University, UK
- John McLaren, Law, University of Victoria, Canada
- Peter Karsten, History, University of Pittsburgh, USA
- Sean Gouglas, History, McMaster University, Canada
- Rande Kostal, Law, University of Western Ontario, Canada
- Dennis Pavlich, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Wes Pue, Law, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Danaya C. Wright, Law, University of Florida, USA
- Mira T. Sundara Rajan, Law, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Christopher M. Curtis, History, Emory University, USA
- Bruce Ziff, Law, University of Alberta, Canada
Australian and NZ delegates include:
- Gregory Marks, ATSIC, Canberra, Australia
- Paul Havemann, Law, University of Waikato, NZ
- Christine Choo, Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia
- Peggy Brock, Aboriginal Studies, Edith Cowan University, Australia
- Ros Atherton, Law, University of Sydney, Australia
- Janet Aisbett, Information Technology, University of Newcastle, Australia
- Ian Holloway, Law, Australian National University, Australia
- David Lemmings, History, University of Newcastle, Australia
- Pat Moloney, Political Science, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
- Libby Connors, History, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
- Hilary Golder, History, La Trobe University, Australia
- Wilf Prest, History, University of Adelaide, Australia
- Shelley Wright, Law, University of Sydney, Australia
- Bryan Gilling, History, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
- Frank Bates, Law, University of Newcastle, Australia
- Stefan Petrow, Law Library, University of Tasmania, Australia
- Shirley Scott, Political Science, University of NSW, Australia
The Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society is comprised of scholars working in different disciplines who share an interest in the connections between law and history. Find out more about the Society here
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This conference would not have been possible without the generous support of the following institutions:
The Canadian High Commission
The Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand
Umulliko Indigenous Higher Education Centre
The Faculty of Arts and
Social Science
The University of Newcastle
The Faculty of Economics
and Commerce
The University of Newcastle