Legal History Matters
From Magna Carta to the Clinton Impeachment
Imprint
Legal History Matters
From Magna Carta to the Clinton Impeachment
Contents
Foreword
by The Hon. Julie Dodds-Streeton QC
Introduction
by Amanda Whiting and Ann O’Connell
Chapter 1: Meeting More’s Challenge: How the Magna Carta Helped Build a Robust Lex Anglicana - Matthew Psycharis
Chapter 2: Due Process or Judicial Murder?: Anne Boleyn’s Trial Placed in Context - Lisette Stevens
Chapter 3: A Nineteenth-Century View of the Magna Carta - Phoebe Williams
Chapter 4: Alger Hiss as Cipher: The Political and Historical Legacy of the Hiss Case - Samuel O’Connor
Chapter 5: Guilty of Sedition, but Innocent of Treason: The Aftermath of the Eureka Stockade - Xavier Nicolo
Chapter 6: 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
Chapter 7: The People of the State of New York v Isaac Harris and Max Blanck: Putting Capitalism on Trial - Jack Townsend
Chapter 8: A Voice in the Wilderness: Revisiting the Political Trial of Brian Cooper - Simon Pickering
Chapter 9: Campaigning for a Verdict: Politics, Partisanship and the President on Trial - Katharine Kilroy
Amanda Whiting
Amanda Whiting is an Associate Professor at Melbourne Law School. Her scholarly research and teaching traverses the disciplines of History and Law, with particular focus on early-modern English history, and the legal profession and law reform in post-colonial Malaysia.
Ann O'Connell
Ann O'Connell is Professor at Melbourne Law School. Her scholarly research and teaching interests include taxation generally as well as taxation of not-for-profits; and not-for profits and the law.
