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MONDAY 13 DECEMBER – PROVISIONAL
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REGISTRATION
Keynote address: Eve Darian Smith “Precedents of Injustice”
MORNING TEA
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CAMPBELL – Agents Of Change And Civilisation – Anglo Irish Lawyers In Central Victoria 1851-1886

EARLS – Disowning Redmond Barry

MOORE – ‘British’ Law And Irish and Scots lawyers Early South Australia 		FITZPATRICK – War Crimes Trials and Australian military justice in the aftermath of WWII

MORRIS – Justice for Asian Victims: TheAust War Crimes trials of the Japanese 1945-51

GOOK – Law at the Border of Politics: East German Border Guards in Unified Germany 		SINGH & SHARMA – Terrorism In South Asia: A Historico-Legal Perspective

VIANA – The Making Of A Modern Police Force In Republican Zhonshan

CHICKTAY – Fighting For The Right To Think: Critical Analyses Of Teacher Strikes In 20th C South Africa 		MAHUIKA – ‘The Past Belongs To All New Zealanders, But First It Is Ours’: Legal History, Indigenous Claims And The Project Of Nation-Making

WHITE – Who Owns Toanga?

RAJAH – Narrating the Lawful Nation: History, Hegemony and Law in Singapore.
LUNCH
BUCK – The Relevance Of English Law And In A Colonial Setting

CURTIS – St George Tucker And The Reception Of The Common Law In Post-Colonial Virginia

ORTH – The Judicial Amendment Of The United States Constitution 		HENDRICK – South African Literature, Apartheid And The TRC

JACKSON – Beyond Tolerance: The Role Of Shared Identities In The Reconciliation Process

LABUDA – Ownership Of The Past In The Context Of Truth And Reconciliation Commissions: The Mississippi Truth Project 		DRAKOPOULOU – A History Of One’s Own Law: Critique And The Question Of Feminist Historiography

GENOVESE – Present Tense: Australian Feminism, Family Law And Genealogy As Politics

LAKE – Re-Reading An American ‘Right To Privacy’ Through Theories Of Gender And Visual Culture 		BALINT & EVANS – Dealing With The Past: Transitional Justice And Settler States

NUGENT – The Missing Title Deeds: Aboriginal Historical Remembrance About Rights To Land In Colonial New South Wales

CHARLTON – Law, Economic Development and Conservation: the 19th Century Logging Industry in the United States and New Zealand
AFTERNOON TEA
PLENARY: ASYLUM SEEKERS IN AUSTRALIA: HISTORY, LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Speakers: Savitri Taylor, Klaus Neumann and Julian Burnside QC
Reception/Book Launch
Sponsored by Faculty of Law, La Trobe University

TUESDAY 14 DECEMBER – PROVISIONAL
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FORD – Convicts And Empire

FLETCHER – A Question Involving ‘Some Difficulty’ But Admitting ‘Little Hesitation’: The Case Of R V Billy William And British Criminal Jurisdiction Over The Indian Tribes Of British Guiana

RIZZETTI – Judge Willis, R V Bonjon And The Historical Narratives Of Empire 		MASSINGHAM – Life, Liberty And The Responsibility To Protect: A Legal Challenge To Sovereignty?

MAYERSON – Responsibility, Culpability Or A Different Shade Of Gray? On Bystander Nations And Genocide

O’NEILL – Owning Cultural Property: Whose Past? Whose Future? 		JOHN – The Success (And Failure) Of Compulsory Voting In Australia, Canada And The US: A Measure Of Executive Tyranny Or Groundswell Of Popular Opinion?

PATMORE – Owning Constitutional Change: Process, Priority And Memory

MAHAR – Euthanasia And The Legal Imagination: Death As Medical Treatment 		MOTHA – As if: archiving colonial sovereignty

LESTER – Finding The Figure Of The Foreigner In Law: Self Or Other?

ANTHONY AND VAN RIJSWICK – Historical and ahistorical narratives: drawing boundaries of ‘consent’ in Stolen Generation Cases
MORNING TEA
PLENARY: BEHRENDT, LINDBERG, MILLER, RURU Acknowledging The Dangerous Myths In History And Law: The Doctrine Of Discovery In The Indigenous Lands Of Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, Canada And The United States Of America
LUNCH
NETTELBECK – The Rule Of Law In History And Memory: A Comparison Of Two Settler Frontiers

FOSTER – The Mounted Police In The National Historical Memories Of Canada And Australia

MORRIS – Uncovering One Of New Zealands Greatest Legal Feuds: Contempt Of Court In Gillon V Macdonald 		SIMIC – War Criminals Or Heroes? Mourning And Celebrating The Past In Post Conflict Bosnia And Herzegovina

TITZE – Truth And Justice In Post-War Guatemala – The Contestation Of The Past In A Divided Society

DUBOIS – Transforming Canadian History? A Contextual Reading Of Canada’s Apology To Aboriginal Peoples 		BANNERMAN – Australia, Canada, New Zealand: Middle Powers And International Copyright

YU – Political Privilege, Legal Right Or Public Policy Tool? A History Of The Patent System

SPUNNER – Where’s Rover? Indigenous Art Forgery and the Victim Impact 		MOHAMAD – The Application Of Section 2 Of Animals Act 1971 Of English Law: An Islamic Approach

NASIR & NASIR – Ensuring the Construction: Islamic Jurisprudence and History

SADIK – Upholding the Humanitarian Legacy: the Role of Ottoman Tolerance in Constructing Modern Turkish Humanitarian Practice.
AFTERNOON TEA
RUMBLES – Portable Jurisdiction For Mobile People: Supreme Court Of NSW Assertion Of Jurisdiction Over British Citizens In Aotearoa/New Zealand 1826-1839

DORSETT – The Precedent Is India: Hobson’s 1840 Draft Legislation For The Modification Of Criminal Laws In The Their Application To Maori 		EVANS – Black Days: Bushfire Disaster And Contesting Public Memory

HADZELEK – Should Franco Go? Spanish Law Of Historical Memory And The Removal Of Franco’s Statues 		ABBENHUIS – It’s All About War: Foregrounding Neutrality In 19th C European History

JOGARAJAN – Wars And Alliances – Tax Treaty History Pre Ww I 		HARRINGTON – Foreign Honors: The Intersection Of Law And History In Burial Places Of Foreign Military Dead

MOHR – The Irish Free State And Dominion Status
ANZLHS Executive Meeting
CONFERENCE DINNER, Rainforest Room, Melbourne Zoo.

WEDNESDAY 15 DECEMBER – PROVISIONAL
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DICK – Clobber: The Paradox Of Protectionist Tariffs On Clothing In Australia 1921-1935

BOTT – The Law and Indentured Labour in 19th C Western Australia: A Comparative Review

BENNETTS – “Frankly The Bill Is But An Experiment” William Pember Reeves And The Curious Designs For Compulsory Arbitration 		McGINN – Outcomes Of Commonwealth Aboriginal Policy In The Northern Territory 1911-1939: Historical Interpretation

MARKS – A Battle For Policy Domination: The Northern Territory And Aboriginal Policy

DUNCANSON – ‘Native’ Landscapes, ‘Cultivated’ Gardens And The Erasure Of Indigenous Sovereignty In Two Recent Cinematic Accounts Of Australia’s Colonial History 		HASLAM – Silences, Slavery Litigation And International Law

BURCHILL – Defining The Past To Determine The Future: The International Court Of Justice And The Construction Of International Legal History

BARDA BARKET – History, Herstory and the Statute of Limitation 		TURNER – Testifying To The Blood And Groans Of Birth: Investigations Into Infant Deaths In Post-Revolutionary America

LI – Trial, Text, Trauma: Reflections on the Rosenberg Case

WILLETT – The Flogging of John Morrison and the Fury of Victorian Law
MORNING TEA
HUNTER – Who Decides? Whose Testimony? The Origin And Use Of Grand Juries In Western Australia

WEBSTER – What Can We Learn From Early Colonial Disputes Over The River Murray?

PETROW – Private Remonstrance, Public Opinion And The Law: The Work Of The SPCA In Hobart 1878-1914 		OAKES – Desegregation In Boston: The Lens Of The Present And The Lens Of The Past

REITER – ‘Building A World Without Hate And Need’: Dissent, Democracy And The Challenge Of A Socialist Jewish Voice To The Canadian State

HODGE – The Disappearance Of Don Dunstan From Australian Homosexual Law Reform: A Case Study On Homophobia And (Re)Claiming Historical Fact 		ELVIN & DE THAN – The Invention and Re-interpretation of the Doctrine of Precedent in English Law

KANEMURA – The Doctrine Of Royal Sovereignty Of England 1601-1621 The Contribution Of Legal-Historical Scholarship Reconsidered

TALIODOROS – The Origin Of Human Rights: Past Or Present? Historical-Legal Approaches 		ALLEN – Law And The Drunkard In 1860s Sydney: Rights And Responsibilities

ANDERSON – Using The Law: Working Class Communities And Attitudes To Justice In Victorian ‘Carnal Knowledge’ Cases 1892-1906

POWELL – Family Matters: Legal And Community Responses To Child Homicide And Family Violence In Late 19 And Early 20th C New Zealand
LUNCH and ANZLHS AGM
CONNORS – Indigenous Women On The South-East Queensland Frontier

JOHNSTON – Lancelot Threlkeld and the Colonial New South Wales Law Courts

PRINCE – Who decides who belongs? Aliens in 19th century Australia 		CHAN – China’s Historical And Contemporary Approaches To International Law

PEEVERS – Legacies of Justifying Force: From the Suez Canal to the Iraq War

PEREIRA – Contesting Law and Space: The ‘Anarcho-Legal’ order of Israel’s Colonial Regime 		McGLONE – The Habitual Criminal, Indefinite Sentencing And The Continuing Pathologizing Of Criminal Behaviour

MORGAN – Considering Couch V The Attorney General In The Context Of The Historical Development And Purpose Of Punitive Damages At Common Law: Is There A Theory To Fit The Facts?

SPIVAKOVSKY – Allowing Indigenous History And Knowledge To Shape Contemporary Correctional Practice 		CUNNEEN – The Social History Of The New South Wales Legal Profession In World War

FINN – The Legal Profession In The First Decade: The First Cohort Of Lawyers 1841-1851

LINDSAY – The Legal Career of C. E. W. Bean: An Australian Moralist in the Making
AFTERNOON TEA
PLENARY: OWNING THE PAST.
Whose past? Craig Wilcox on the case of Breaker Morant
Whose present? David Williams on Waitangi Tribunal
Sponsored by the Faculty of Law, La Trobe University
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