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Melbourne Law School Rare Books and Legal History Lecture Series


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.

Next Lecture

William Blackstone: Lawyer and Judge , Lecture by Proffessor Wilfrid Prest ( University of Adelaide ) . G08, Ground Floor Melbourne Law School 185 Pelham St, Carlton. 29/10/2009 5.30 pm for a 6.00 pm start. Please register your attendance here

Previous Lectures in the Series

Michael Bryan - Early English Law Reporting - 12/11/2008

Wilfrid Prest - Blackstone's Books - 15/11/2006

John M Bennett - Judicial Biography: Does it Matter? The Making of 'Lives of the Australian Chief Justices' - 24/5/2005

Roger Stoddard - F.O.J. Smith and William Willis: Two Kawyer-Book Collectors in Nineteenth-Centry Portland, Maine - 14/10/2004
Michael Piggott - Preserving Legal History: The University of Melbourne's Law Archives - 11/5/2004
John Emmerson - The First English Law Books - 12/11/2003
Wallace Kirsop - Buying Law Books in C19th Melbourne - 8/4/2003
Robin Sharwood - Revealing Hidden Treasures - 17/10/2002

 
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