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Tutorials in Australian Legal History

Wed May 09 2018

Professor Wilf Prest delivered the first tutorial, Lawyers and the law in the "Glorious Revolution" on Tuesday 24 April 2018, which drew on Professor Prest’s contribution to volume 9 of the Oxford History of the Laws of England, ed. J H Baker, titled “A New History of Law in Post-Revolutionary England, 1689-1760” (with co-authors David Lemmings and Mike Macnair).

The next tutorials in this year’s series of tutorials on Australian legal history are:

  • The Hon Arthur Emmett AO QC, The Roman Consensual Contracts: Sale, Hire and Partnership – next Tuesday, 15 May 2018
  • Professor Mark Lunney, History the law of tort on Tuesday 19 June 2018
  • The Hon J Campbell QC, History of Equity, in two parts, on Wednesday 25 July and Wednesday 22 August 2018

All tutorials will be held in at 5.15pm in Banco Court.

The 2018 Forbes Lecture - Wednesday 30 May 2018: The Hon Justice Virginia Bell AC will deliver the 2018 Forbes Lecture, to mark the Centenary of the Women’s Legal Status Act 1918 (NSW). The lecture will take place at 5.15 pm in the NSW Bar Association Common Room, and will be chaired by Arthur Moses SC.

Everyone is welcome to attend.

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