Melbourne Law School Rare Books Lecture Series
The Melbourne Law School Rare Books 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:
In the second lecture, Professor Wallace Kirsop discussed the history of buying and selling law books in nineteenth-century Melbourne. Copies of Wallace Kirsop's publication Buying Law Books in Nineteenth-Century Melbourne (Monash University: Centre for Book, 2003) can be purchased for $10.00 from the Law Library. Dr John Emmerson QC discussed some of the people behind the earliest English Law books. Dr Emmerson focussed on a number of books held by the Law Library, including Perkins' Profitable Book, Smith's Commonwealth and Littleton's Tenures. Click here to view the slides from the lecture. Michael Piggott, the University Archivist, introduced the University of Melbourne Archives' extensive collection of law-related records. These include papers of prominent law academics and judges; records (dating from the 1830s) from a number of Melbourne and regional Victoria law firms as well as from organisations such as the Law Institute of Victoria, Law Reform Commission, Victorian Bar Council and the Melbourne Law Students' Society; and papers of royal commissions and royal commissioners. |