The Impact of Law's History: What's Past is Prologue (Hardcover)

Introduction; Sarah McKibbin, Jeremy Patrick and Marcus Harmes.- PART I: LEGAL TECHNICALITIES, LEGAL ORTHODOXIES AND LEGAL INSTITUTIONS.- The Office of Attorney-General in England, 1689-1760: Politics and Profession; Wilfrid Prest.- A Conspiracy of Paper? William Paterson and the Mysterious Origins of Banking and Company Law; John H Farrar.- ‘Old, unhappy, far-off things’: The Use of English Legal History in the High Court of Australia; Warren Swain.- The History of Legal Marketing in Australia and New Zealand; Keith Thompson.- What Albert did and what Albert did next: Albert Bathurst Piddington ? the High Court judge who never sat; A. S. Bell and James Monaghan.- Making Terra Nullius: Supreme Court Decisions and Decision Making; Gavin Loughton.- Lord Atkin’s Dissent in Liversidge v Anderson: Decorum, Rule of Law, Orthodoxy; Karen Schulz.- The Evolution from Strict Liability to Negligence; Anthony Gray.- Strictly Federal: Historical and Comparative Insights into the Centralisation of Criminal Law; Julian R. Murphy.- PART II: CONSTITUTIONAL PASTS AND FUTURES.- History must be Seen to be Done: The Use of History as a Legitimating Device in Constitutional Interpretation in Australia and the United States; Julian R. Murphy.- Legal Pluralism in Magna Carta: Implications for the Present Australian Constitution and the Uluru Statement from the Heart; Jason Taliadoros.- Land, the Social Imaginary and the Constitution Act 1867 (Qld); Julie Copley.- The Challenges to the UK Constitution since 1979 and Brexit; Michael Muligan.- Path Dependency, the High Court, and the Constitution; Jeremy Patrick.- PART III: LEGAL AND MORAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND HISTORICAL MISTAKES.- Aspects of the History of Biodiversity Regulation in Australia; Noeleen McNamara.- Criminal Responsibility for Commanders in Time of War: Lessons from the US Army’s War Crimes Trials in the Philippines, 1945?47; Jeremy Turner.- PART I: EDUCATIONAL HISTORIES AND LEGAL NOSTALGIA.- Reflections on the Importance of History in Legal Education in the UK Context ? and Possible Revelations for Mapping Global Aspirations for Higher Education; Sarah Wilson.- The Age of Rumpole is Past? Learning the Law from the Televised Past; Marcus Harmes.