ANDREW RICHARD BUCK

BA (Hons) (UNSW), MA PhD (Newcastle), Grad Dip Jurisprudence (Sydney)

Professor

Teaching Responsibilities:

Research Interests:

Recent Publications:

Books:

Despotic Dominion: Property Rights in British Settler Societies (UBC Press: Vancouver, 2004), co-edited with J McLaren and N.E. Wright
Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England, (University of Toronto Press: Toronto, 2004), co-edited with N.E. Wright and M.W. Ferguson
Land and Freedom: Law, Property Rights and the British Diaspora, (Ashgate: Aldershot, 2001) co-edited with J. McLaren and N.E. Wright .

Current Research:

A book on Shakespeare and the history of property law in early modern England, tentatively titled Shakespeare and the Drama of Property in Early Modern England, co-authored with N.E. Wright.
A book on inheritance law and political culture in the nineteenth century tentatively titled The English Inheritance: Primogeniture and the Rise of Democracy (under contract with UBC Press).

Membership of Academic and Professional Bodies:

Editor, Australian Journal of Legal History
Director, Centre for Comparative Legal History, Division of Law, Macquarie University
Director, Law and Property Rights Research Centre, Division of Law, Macquarie University

Non-academic Interests:

The conscientious avoidance of sport in all forms.

Contact Details:

Division of Law
Macquarie University
Sydney NSW 2109
Australia

Ph: +61-2-9850-7087
Fx: +61-2-9850-7686
Email: andrew.buck@mq.edu.au or abuck@law.law.mq.edu.au