Rare Books and Legal History
The Melbourne Law School Rare Books and Legal History Lecture Series
was launched in 2002 to promote and encourage research into the Rare
Book Collection. The lecture series also aims to use the collection as a
starting point for more general discussions of subjects such as:
- legal, business and economic history
- the early history and development of the Law School
- publishing and bookselling in Australia.
Previous Lectures in the Series
| Speaker | Lecture title | Date | Access |
| Bryan A. Garner | The Utility and Pleasure of Collecting Antiquarian Lawbooks | 26 July 2012 | |
| Dr Shaunnagh Dorsett | Why archive? The New Zealand Lost Cases project |
27 October 2011 | |
| Professor Michael Bryan | The Modern History and Contemporary Issues of Law Reporting: from 1850 to the Online Revolution |
18 November 2010 | Podcast link here |
| Professor Emeritus Wilfrid Prest | William Blackstone: Lawyer and Judge | 29 October 2009 | Podcast link here |
| Professor Michael Bryan | Early English Law Reporting |
12 November 2008 | Article |
| Professor Emeritus Wilfrid Prest | Blackstone's Books |
15 November 2006 | |
| Professor John M Bennett | Judicial Biography: Does it Matter? The Making of 'Lives of the Australian Chief Justices' |
24 May 2005 | |
| Roger Stoddard | F.O.J. Smith and William Willis: Two Lawyer-Book Collectors in Nineteenth-Century Portland, Maine |
14 October 2004 | Catalogue record for pamphlet |
| Michael Piggott | Preserving Legal History: The University of Melbourne's Law Archives | 11 May 2004 | |
| Dr John Emmerson QC |
The First English Law Books | 12 November 2003 | |
| Professor Wallace Kirsop | Buying Law Books in Nineteenth Century Melbourne | 8 April 2003 | Catalogue record for pamphlet |
| Professor Robin Sharwood | Revealing Hidden Treasures | 17 October 2002 |