Legal History: Australia

Primary Sources
The Kercher Reports: Decisions of the New South Wales Superior Courts, 1788 to 1827. (eds.) Bruce Kercher and Brent Salter. Sydney: Francis Forbes Society of Australian Legal History, 2009.

Secondary Sources
Books
BYRNE, Paula J. Criminal Law and Colonial Subject: New South Wales, 1810-1830. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993.

CURREY, C. H. The Brothers Bent: Judge-Advocate Ellis Bent and Judge Jeffrey Hart Bent. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1968.

FORD, Lisa. Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788-1836. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010.

GOLDER, Hilary. High and Responsible Office: a history of the NSW magistracy. South Melbourne: Sydney University Press, 1991.

KERCHER, Bruce. Debt, Seduction and Other Disasters: the birth of civil law in convict New South Wales. Leichhardt, N.S.W.: The Federation Press, 1996.

KERCHER, Bruce. An Unruly Child: a history of law in Australia. St. Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 1995.

NEAL, David. The Rule of Law in a Penal Colony: law and power in early New South Wales. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

YARWOOD, A. T. Samuel Marsden: the great survivor. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1977.

Journal Articles & Chapters

ATKINSON, Alan. "The Free-Born Englishman Transported: Convict Rights as a Measure of Eigtheenth-Century Empire." Past and Present No. 144, August 1994, pp.88-115.

BENNETT, J. M. "The Day of Retribution - Commissioner Bigge's Inquiries in Colonial New South Wales." The American Journal of Legal History Vol. 15 No. 2 (April 1971) pp. 85-106.

CAMPBELL, Enid. "Prerogative Rule in New South Wales, 1788-1823." Royal Australian Historical Society. Journal. Vol. 50 Part 3 August 1964 pp.161-191.

EVANS, Raymond. "19 June 1822. Creating 'An Object of Terror': the Tabling of the Bigge Report" in Turning Points in Australian History. (eds.) Martin Crotty and David Andrew Roberts. Sydney: UNSW Press, c2008 pp.48-61.

FORD, Lisa. "Traversing the Frontiers of the History Wars: The Plurality of Settler Sovereignty in Early New South Wales." Macquarie Law Working Paper No. 2008-1. [February 2008] pp.1-7.

FORD, Lisa and SALTER, Brent. "From Pluralism to Territorial Sovereignty: The 1816 Trial of Mow-watty in the Superior Court of New South Wales." Indigenous Law Journal Vol. 7 (2008-2009) pp.67-86.

KERCHER, Bruce. "Perish or Prosper: the Law and Convict Transportation in the British Empire, 1700-1850." Law and History Review. Vol. 21 No.3, Fall 2003.

McCLAREN, John. "Men of Principle or Judicial Ratbags? The Trials and Tribulations of Maverick Colonial Judges in the 19th Century" or "A Funny Way to Run an Empire". Windsor Review of Legal and social Issues. May 2009 No.145 pp.145-166.

NEAL, David. "Free Society, Penal Colony, Slave Society, Prison?" Historical Studies Vol. 22, No.89, October 1987, pp.497-518.

NEAL, David. "Law and Authority: the Magistracy in New South Wales, 1788-1840" Law in Context Vol. 3 1985.

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