AUSTRALIAN BOOKS

Australian Dictionary of Biography (legal biographies)

Australian Law Reform Commission, The Recognition of Aboriginal Customary Laws, Report No. 31, AGPS, Canberra, 1986

Barry, JV, Alexander Maconochie of Norfolk Island: a Study of Pioneer in Penal Reform, OUP, Melbourne, 1958

Baxter, Carol, An Irresistable Temptation: the True Story of Jane New and a Colonial Scandal Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 2006

Behan, H.F., Mr. Justice J. W. Willis: with Particular Reference to his Period as First Resident Judge in Port Phillip 1841--1843, Behan, Melbourne, 1979

Bennett, JM, A History of the New South Wales Bar, LBC, Sydney, 1969

Bennett, JM, A History of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, LBC, Sydney, 1974

Bennett, JM, and Castles, AC, 1979, A Source Book of Australian Legal History: Source Materials from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries, Law Book Co.

Bennett, JM, ed, A History of the New South Wales Bar, LBC, Sydney, 1969

Bennett, JM, Keystone of the Federal Arch: a Historical Memoir of the High Court of Australia to 1980, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1980

Bennett, JM, Lives of the Australian Chief Justices: Sir Francis Forbes: First Chief Justice of New South Wales 1824-1837 (Federation Press, Sydney, 2001)

Bennett, JM, Lives of the Australian Chief Justices: Sir James Dowling: Second Chief Justice of New South Wales 1837-1844 (Federation Press, Sydney, 2001)

Bennett, JM, Lives of the Australian Chief Justices: Sir William a'Beckett: First Chief Justice of Victoria 1852-1857 (Federation Press, Sydney, 2001)

Bennett, J.M. Portraits of the Chief Justices of New South Wales" (John Fergusson Pty Ltd, Sydney 1977).

Bennett, JM, Sir John Pedder: First Chief Justice of Tasmania, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 1977

Bennett, JM, ed, Some Papers of Sir Francis Forbes, First Chief Justice in Australia, Parliament of NSW, Sydney, 1998

Bennett, JM, Minchin, EJ, and Fisher, A, 1984, A History of Solicitors in New South Wales, Legal Books.

Bennett, Laura, Making Labour Law in Australia: Industrial Relations, Politics and Law, Law Book Co., Sydney, 1994

Bernays, C A Queensland Politics during 60 Years (Government (Government Printer, Brisbane, 1921).

Birrell, Ralph Staking a claim: gold and the development of Victorian mining law (Melbourne UP 1998)

Blackshield, A, Coper, M, and Williams, G, (eds), Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia (Oxford University Press, 2001)

Blackshield, AR, Brown, David, Coper, Michael and Krever, Richard, The Judgments of Justice Lionel Murphy, Primavera Press, Sydney, 1986

Blackshield, AR, The Abolition of Privy Council Appeals: Judicial Responsibility and `The Law for Australia', Adelaide Law Review Association, Adelaide, 1978

Blavin, T, The Jubilee Book of the Law School of the University of Sydney 1890--1940, Halstead Press, Sydney, 1940

Boldrewood, Rolf (Thomas Browne), Robbery Under Arms, Essays and Short Stories, UQP, St Lucia, 1979

Brown, G D, and P. B. Walker, The Brief Case, Melanie Publications, Hobart, 1981

Buck, A.R. and Wright, N.E. (eds), The Politics of Property: A Special Issue of the Australian Journal of Legal History, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1999.

Buck, A.R., McLaren, J. and Wright, N.E. (eds), Land and Freedom: Law, Property Rights and the British Diaspora (Ashgate: Aldershot, 2001)

Butlin, SJ, 1953, The Foundations of the Australian Monetary System 1788-1851, Sydney University Press, reprinted 1968.

Byrne, P, 1993, Criminal Law and Colonial Subject: New South Wales 1810-1830, Cambridge University Press.

Campbell, Ruth, A History of the Melbourne Law School 1857--1973, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 1977

Carboni, Raffaello, The Eureka Stockade, 1855, reprinted MUP, Melbourne, 1993

Castle, TD, and Kercher, B, The Dowling Legacy: Foundations of an Australian Legal Culture 1828 to 1844, Francis Forbes Society, Sydney, 2005 (49 pages)

Castle, TD, and Kercher, B (eds), Dowling's Select Cases, 1828 to 1844: Decisions of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Francis Forbes Society, Sydney, 2005

Castles, AC, 1982, An Australian Legal History, Law Book Co.

Castles, AC, 1994, Annotated Bibliography of Printed Materials on Australia Law 1788-1900, Law Book Co.

Castles, Alex, and Harris, Michael, Lawmakers and Wayward Wigs: Government and Law in South Australia, 1836--1986, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 1987

Clark, CMH (ed), Select Documents in Australian History 1788--1850, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1950

Clarke, Marcus, For the Term of his Natural Life, 1874, reprinted OUP, London, 1952

Collins, D, 1798, 1802, An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, 2 Vols, AH and WA Reed, 1975.

Collins, D., An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, 1798, reprinted A. H. & W. A. Reed, Sydney, 1975

Coper, Michael, Encounters with the Australian Constitution, C.C.H. Australia, North Ryde, 1987

Cowen, Zelman, Isaac Isaacs, UQP, St Lucia, 1993

Cowen, Zelman, Sir John Latham and other Papers, OUP, Melbourne, 1965

Crockett, Peter, Evatt: a Life, OUP, Melbourne, 1993

Currey, CH, 1968, The Brothers Bent: Judge-Advocate Ellis Bent and Judge Jeffery Hart Bent, Sydney Univ Press.

Currey, CH, Sir Francis Forbes: the First Chief Justice of New South Wales, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1968

D'Alpuget, Blanche, Mediator: a Biography of Sir Richard Kirby, MUP, Melbourne, 1977

Davidson, Alastair, The Invisible State: the Formation of the Australian State 1788--1901, CUP, Cambridge, 1991

Davoren, L, 1979, G Mackaness (ed), Lawrence Davoren's A New Song Made in New South Wales on the Rebellion, Review Publications.

Dean, Arthur, A Multitude of Counsellors: a History of the Bar of Victoria, Cheshire, Melbourne, 1968

Dixon, Owen, Jesting Pilate and Other Papers and Addresses, LBC, Sydney, 1965

Duman, Daniel, The English and Colonial Bars in the Nineteenth Century, Croom Helm, London, 1983

Eggleston, Elizabeth Fear, Favour or Affection (A.N.U. Press, Canberra, 1976)

Ellinghaus, MP, A. J. Bradbrook, AJ, and Duggan, AJ, eds, The Emergence of Australian Law, Butterworths, Sydney, 1989

Ely, Jean, and Ely, Richard, Lionel Murphy: the Rule of Law, Akron Press, Sydney, 1986

Ely, Richard ed, Carrel Inglis Clark: The Supreme Court of Tasmanian Its First Century 1824-1924, University of Tasmania Law Press, Hobart, 1995

Evatt, HV, 1938, Rum Rebellion: a Study of the Overthrow of Governor Bligh by John Macarthur and the New South Wales Corps, Angus & Robertson, 1975 reprint.

Finn, Paul, Law and Government in Colonial Australia, OUP, Melbourne, 1987

Finnane, M, Police and Government: Histories of Policing in Australia, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1994

Fitzgerald, R and Hearn, M, 1988, Bligh, Macarthur and the Rum Rebellion, Kangaroo Press.

Fletcher, BH, 1976, Landed Enterprise and Penal Society: a History of Farming and Grazing in New South Wales Before 1821, Sydney University Press.

Forde, J L "The Story of the Bar of Victoria" (Whitcombe & Tombs, Melbourne & NZ, 1913)

Galligan, Brian, Politics of the High Court: a Study of the Judicial Branch of Government in Australia, UQP, St Lucia, 1987

Golder, H, 1985, Divorce in 19th Century New South Wales, UNSW Press.

Golder, H, 1991, High and Responsible Office: a History of the New South Wales Magistracy, Sydney University Press.

Hague, RM, Sir John Jeffcott: Portrait of a Colonial Judge, MUP, Melbourne, 1963

Hainsworth, DR, (ed), 1968, Builders and Adventurers: The Traders and the Emergence of the Colony 1788-1821, Cassell Australia.

Hainsworth, DR, 1981, The Sydney Traders: Simeon Lord and his Contemporaries 1788-1821, Melbourne Univ Press.

Hanks and Keon-Cohen (eds.) "Aborigines and the Law" (Geo. Allen & Unwin Australia, 1984)

Hannan, AJ, The Life of Chief Justice Way, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1960

Harrison, JND, ed, Court in the Colony, Law Society of Tasmania, Hobart, 1974

Hasluck, Alexandra, Unwilling Emigrants: a Study of the Convict Period in Western Australia, OUP, Melbourne, 1959

Hasluck, Paul Black Australians ( A Survey of Native Policy in Western Australia 1829-97)

Hazzard, M, 1984, Punishment Short of Death: a History of the Penal Settlement at Norfolk Island, Hyland House.

Higgins, HB, A New Province for Law and Order, Government Printer, Melbourne, 1920

Hirst, JB, 1983, Convict Society and its Enemies: a History of Early New South Wales, Allen and Unwin.

Hirst, JB, 2000, The Sentimental Nation: the Making of the Australian Commonwealth, OUP, Melbourne

Hirst, JB, 1988, The Strange Birth of Colonial Democracy: New South Wales 1848-1884, Allen and Unwin.

Holt, HTE, A Court Rises: the Lives and Times of the Judges of the District Court of New South Wales (1859--1959), Law Foundation of NSW, North Sydney, 1976

Holt, J, 1988, A Rum Story: the Adventures of Joseph Holt - Thirteen Years in New South Wales (1800-12), P A'Shaughnessy ed, Kangaroo Press.

Holt, J., (P A'Shaughnessy ed.), A Rum Story: The Adventures of Joseph Holt--Thirteen Years in New South Wales (1800--12), Kangaroo Press, Kenthurst, 1988, p. 71.

Hughes, R, 1987, The Fatal Shore: a History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868, Collins Harvill.

Irvine, N, 1982, Mary Reibey - Molly Incognita: a Biography of Mary Reibey 1777 to 1855, and her World, Library of Australian History.

Irving, H ed, The Centenary Companion to Australian Federation, OUP, Melbourne, 1999

Johnston, Ross, History of the Queensland Bar, Bar Association of Queensland, Brisbane, 1978

Johnston, Ross, History of the Queensland Bar, Bar Association of Queensland, Brisbane, 1978

Joyce, Roger, Samuel Walker Griffith, UQP, St Lucia, 1984

Karsten, Peter, Between Law and Custom: "High" and "Low" Legal Cutlures in the Lands of the British Diaspora - the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, 1600-1900 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002)

Kercher, BR, 1990, Australian Debt Recovery Law, Federation Press.

Kercher, BR, 1995, An Unruly Child: a History of Law in Australia, Allen & Unwin.

Kerr, JS, 1984, Design for Convicts: an Account of Design for Convict Establishments in the Australian Colonies during the Transportation Era, Library Australian History.

Kirkby, Diane and Colborne, Cathy (eds), Law History Colonialism: The Reach of Empire (Manchester UP 2001)

Kirkby, Diane Sex Power and Justice: Historical Perspectives of Law in Australia (Melbourne, OUP, 1995)

Knight, Ruth, Illiberal Liberal: Robert Lowe in New South Wales, 1842--1850, MUP, Melbourne, 1966

La Nauze, JA, The Making of the Australian Constitution, MUP, Melbourne, 1972

Lang, A, 1973, Crown Land in New South Wales, Butterworths.

Lang, Andrew, Crown Land in New South Wales, Butterworths, Sydney, 1973

Larcombe, F.A. A History of Local Government in New South Wales (three vols, Sydney University Press 1973-77)

Mackinolty, J, and Radi, H (eds), In Pursuit of Justice: Australian Women and the Law 1788-1979, Hale and Iremonger.

Mackinolty, John, and Mackinolty, Judy, eds, A Century Down Town: Sydney University Law School's First Hundred Years, Sydney University Law School, Sydney, 1991

Macmillan, DS, 1960, The Debtor's War: Scottish Capitalists and the Economic Crisis in Australia 1841-1846, Cheshire.

Mann, D.D. The Present Picture of New South Wales 1811, 1811, reprinted John Ferguson, Sydney, 1979

Marr, David, Barwick, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1980

Martin, AW, ed, Essays in Australian Federation, MUP, Melbourne, 1969

McMinn, WG, A Constitutional History of Australia, OUP, Melbourne, 1979

McMinn, WG, Nationalism and Federalism in Australia, OUP, Melbourne, 1994

McPherson, BH, The Supreme Court of Queensland 1859--1960: History Jurisdiction Procedure, Butterworths, Sydney, 1989

Melbourne, ACV, 1963, Early Constitutional Development in Australia, revised edn, Queensland Univ Press.

Melville, H, Australasia and Prison Discipline, London, 1851

Millard, AC, and Millard, GW, 1930, The Law of Real Property in New South Wales, 4th edn by B A Helmore, Law Book Co.

Milliss, Roger, Waterloo Creek: the Australia Day Massacre of 1838, George Gipps and the British Conquest of New South Wales, McPhee Gribble, Ringwood, 1992

Molony, John, Eureka, Penguin, Ringwood, 1989

Molony, J N An Architect of Freedom: John Hubert Plunkett in New South Wales 1832-1869 (ANU Press, 1973)

Morris, E E A Memoir of George Higinbotham (MacMillan & Co, London, 1895).

Motion, Andrew, Wainewright the Poisoner, Faber &Faber, London, 2000

Mudie, James, The Felonry of New South Wales, 1837, reprint, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1964

Murphy, D.J. and Joyce, R.B. (eds) Queensland Political Portraits 1859-1952 (U Queensland Press, 1978)

Nagle, JF, Collins, the Courts & the Colony: Law and Society in Colonial New South Wales 1788-1796

Neal, D, 1991, The Rule of Law in a Penal Colony: Law and Power in Early New South Wales, Cambridge Univ Press.

Neumann, Eddy, The High Court of Australia: a Collective Portrait 1903--1972, University of Sydney, Sydney, 1973

Newman, CET, 1961, The Spirit of Wharf House: Campbell Enterprise from Calcutta to Canberra 1788-1930, Angus and Robertson.

Palmer, Nettie, Henry Bourne Higgins: a Memoir, Harrap and Co., London, 1931

Parkinson, P, 1994, Tradition and Change in Australian Law, Law Book Company.

Paton G W (ed.). The Commonwealth of Australia: The Development of its Laws and Constitution (London, Stevens and Sons, 1952)

Phillips, John, The Trial of Ned Kelly, LBC, Sydney, 1987

Rees, Sian, The Floating Brothel, Hodder, Sydney, 2001

Reynolds, H, 1982, The Other Side of the Frontier: Aboriginal Resistance to the European Invasion of Australia, Penguin.

Reynolds, H, 1987a, Frontier: Aborigines, Settlers and Land, Allen and Unwin.

Reynolds, H, 1987b, The Law of the Land, Penguin.

Reynolds, Henry, Dispossession, Allen & Unwin, North Sydney, 1989

Rickard, John, H. B. Higgins: the Rebel as Judge, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1984

Ritchie, J (ed), 1971, The Evidence to the Bigge Reports: New South Wales under Governor Macquarie, Heinemann.

Ritchie, JD, 1970, Punishment and Profit: the Reports of Commissioner John Bigge on the Colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, 1822-1823: their Origins, Nature and Significance, Heinemann.

Roberts, Stephen, The Squatting Age in Australia 1835--1847, 1935, reprint MUP, Melbourne, 1964

Roberts S. H. History of Australian Land Settlement 1788-1920 ( 1924; reprinted McMillan of Australia 1968)

Robson, L, A History of Tasmania, vol. 1, OUP, Oxford, 1983

Roderick, Colin, The Lady and the Lawyer, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1955 (novel set in legal Sydney of the 1820s and 1830s)

Russell, E.M., A History of the Law in Western Australia and its Development from 1829 to 1979, UWAPress, Perth, 1980

Ryan, RJ (ed), Land Grants 1788-1809: a Record of Registered Grants and Lease in NSW, VDL and Norfolk Island, Australian Documents Library.

Salt, A, 1984, These Outcast Women: the Parramatta Female Factory 1821-1848, Hale and Iremonger.

Scutt, Jocelynne, ed, Lionel Murphy: a Radical Judge, McCulloch Publishing, Melbourne, 1987

Sharpe, Alan, The Crimes that Shocked Australia, Currawong Press, Milson's Point, 1982

Silver, L., The Battle of Vinegar Hill, Doubleday, Sydney, 1989

Simpson, AWB, Bibliographical Dictionary of the Common Law, ed, Butterworths, London, 1984

Skinner, LE, Police of the Pastoral Frontier: Native Police 1849--1859, UQP, St Lucia, 1975

Solomon, David, The Political Impact of the High Court, Allen & Unwin, North Sydney, 1992

Steele, JG, Brisbane Town in Convict Days 1824--1842, UQP, St Lucia, 1975

Stephen, George, Insolvency Reform, Blundell and Co., Melbourne, 1868

Stephen, Ninian, Sir Owen Dixon: a Celebration, MUP, Melbourne, 1986

Sturma, M., Vice in a Vicious Society: Crime and Convicts in Mid-Nineteenth Century New South Wales, UQP, St Lucia, 1983

Tennant, Kylie, Evatt: Politics and Justice, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1970

Therry, R, 1863, Reminiscences of Thirty Years' Residence in New South Wales and Victoria, reprint, Sydney Univ Press, 1974.

Tolchard, C, 1965, The Humble Adventurer: the Life and Times of James Ruse, Convict and Farmer, Lansdowne Press.

Therry, R Reminiscences of Thirty Years Residence in New South Wales and Victoria (first published 1863, facsimile edition 1974, Sydney University Press, with introduction by J.M. Bennett).

Tomasic M (ed.) Legislation and Society in Australia, (Geo. Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1980)

Wright, Raymond A People's Counsel: A History of the Parliament of Victoria (O.U.P. Melbourne, 1992)

Young, Sir John M, Sir William Foster Stawell (Melbourne UP 1989).

Turner, JW (ed), 1973, Newcastle as a Convict Settlement: the Evidence before J T Bigge in 1819-1821, Council of the City of Newcastle.

Webb, TP, A Compendium of the Imperial Law and Statutes in Force in the Colony of Victoria, 2nd ed., 1892

Wentworth, WC, 1819, Statistical, Historical, and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales, facsimile edition, Griffin Press, 1978.

Wentworth, WC, Statistical, Historical, and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales, 1819, facsimile edition, Griffin Press, Adelaide, 1978

Whitfield, LA, Founders of the Law in Australia, Australian National University, Canberra, 1969

Windeyer, V, 1957, Lectures on Legal History, 2nd edn, Law Book Co.