Aboriginal Societies Common Law C

ISBN-13: 9780198252481 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 674 str.

Mchugh

Opis

This book describes the encounter between the common law legal system and the tribal peoples of North America and Australasia. It is a history of the role of anglophone law in managing relations between the British settlers and indigenous peoples from colonial foundation to the end of the Twentieth century. The historical basis of relations is described through the enduring, but constantly shifting questions of sovereignty, status and, more recently, self-determination.

Recenzje

McHugh's book is not just a legal history of Aboriginal title to land but a comprehensive history of legal relations between settlers and Aboriginal societies that addresses sovereignty, jurisdiction, status, and citizenship as well as land. The breadth of learning, depth of research, and thoughtfulness of analysis represented by this book are remarkable. It is written on an epic scale - covering law's stretch over the centuries and the seas - and it deserves to be read and studied carefully.

O autorze

Dr. P. G. McHugh is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Cambridge, Tutor of Sidney Sussex College, and Ashley McHugh Ngai Tahu Visiting Professor at Victoria University of Wellington.