Legal History Turns from Schultz and friends

Here is another Commonwealth title we missed from The Federation Press in 2015: a volume edited by Griffith University's Karen Schultz, Legal History Turns. From the publisher:

This volume concerns legal history turns – that is, new directions or volte-faces  in legal history and its interdisciplinarity. Legal history turns include deviations from historically-situated interpretations and practices in law and legal scholarship. The papers in this volume grew from the Griffith Law School’s Legal History Seminar Series, a public lecture initiative intended to contribute to the interest in legal history of the profession, judiciary, academe, and the public. Written by a cast that includes authors with internationally-impressive legal history credentials, this collection illustrates legal history turns’ dynamism and diversity, and is introduced with a foreword by The Honourable Justice Susan Kiefel AC.

Table of Contents after the jump.

Preston on Australian military law

We're catching up on a few titles published in Commonwealth countries back in 2015. Here's the first—from Federation Press, Military Law in Colonial Australia by Neil Preston, OAM. From the publisher:

This book breaks new ground in reviewing the naval and military law of the Australian colonies before their federation in 1901. Its particular focus is on the disciplinary codes contained in Acts of Parliament and subordinate legislation. A disciplinary code takes a certain form having regard to the nature of the force to which it is to apply, which in turn depends on the circumstances in which the force is raised and its proposed role.

Matters dealt with include:

• an examination of the colonies’ many disciplinary codes and a discussion of their adequacy.

• the political development of the colonies to the stage where they were prepared to raise local forces.

• the development of the British part-time forces and the British naval and military disciplinary codes, because the colonies looked to Britain for precedents for the kinds of forces they might raise and the disciplinary codes they might provide.

• the various kinds of naval and military forces that the colonies experimented with.

• the colonies’ responses to the withdrawal of British regular army troops in the period 1860-70.

• the colonies’ responses to the reports of senior British officers sent to the colonies to advise on defence matters, including the colonial forces.

• the naval and military law applying to colonial forces serving in the Sudan, the Boer War and the Boxer rebellion in China.

Table of Contents after the jump.