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‘The Impact of Law’s History: The Past is Prologue’ considers how legal history in Aboriginal, British, Australian, and wider contexts have shaped our shared present. The essays in this collection draw significant connections from a historical legal development to a meaningful feature of our lives today. The leaders that govern us, the crimes we commit, and the freedoms that we cherish are part and parcel of the enduring legacy of legal history.
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This collection arose out of a colloquium held by the University of Southern Queensland’s Law, Religion, and Heritage Research Program Team in Toowoomba in May 2019.
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Jim Phillips, “Why Legal History Matters,” Victoria University Wellington Law Review 41 (2010): 294–5.
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Ibid., 305. In this way, legal history holds some similarities to comparative law.
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Harmes, M.K., McKibbin, S., Patrick, J. (2022). Introduction. In: McKibbin, S., Patrick, J., Harmes, M.K. (eds) The Impact of Law's History. Palgrave Modern Legal History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90068-7_1
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