ANZLS Program Now Available

Courtoom Scene, Sydney, 1817 (wiki)

The program for the 39th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society, “an intensive 1 day world-wide gathering devoted to law in history” on December 9, is now available here.  The keynote plenary sessions are Joshua Getzler, Oxford University, on “Six Nations of the Grand River, military feudalism, and the roots of ‘honour of the Crown’”; Miranda Johnson, Otago University, on “Reckoning with a Pacific empire state: Race, nation, citizenship and the idea of New Zealand”; and a closing address by Dame Sian Elias, former Chief Justice of New Zealand.

--Dan Ernst

ANZLHS 2020

 [We have the following announcement.  DRE]

39th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society

Join us for an intensive 1 day world-wide gathering devoted to law in history on 9 December 2020, hosted by Event Services at the University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand

Keynote plenary sessions will feature:

Joshua Getzler, Oxford University, on "Six Nations of the Grand River, military feudalism, and the roots of 'honour of the Crown'"

Miranda Johnson, Otago University, on "Reckoning with a Pacific empire state: Race, nation, citizenship and the idea of New Zealand"

A Closing Address by Dame Sian Elias, former Chief Justice of New Zealand

The organisers have accepted 39 individual papers and 7 panel presentations. They will be run in four concurrent parallel sessions throughout the day. The programme will be uploaded to the ANZLHS website page shortly.

The timings will be specified according to the NZDT time zone - which is UTC+13. We have attempted to time presentations so that are as reasonable as possible for the presenters (but will be difficult for some). The conference will begin at 9.00am and conclude at 7.00pm NZDT.

To cover Event Services charges, and to ensure a high quality of digital platform delivery utilising Zoom, Vimeo and Twilio, we are asking all attendees to pay a modest registration fee. In addition, the rules of the ANZLHS require all presenters to pay the Society's 2020 annual subscription. So 'full member registration' applies to presenters who have paid the 2020 Society subscription in advance; 'full non-member registration' applies to presenters (some of whom will have been members in the past) who have not yet paid the 2020 Society subscription. We are waiving registration fees for postgraduate student presenters. The portal for registrations will be launched shortly through the website page. The cost for registration is as follows in $NZ:

Full member registration: $130; Full non-member registration: $ 215; Full-time post graduate presenters: Fee waiver; Attendance only registration: $130

Graduate students are invited to apply for Kercher Scholarships. Five scholarship awards will be made that may adorn your cv even though there is no monetary element to the scholarship this year. Please apply to Katherine Sanders: k.sanders@auckland.ac.nz by 20 November if you have not already applied. Graduate attendees may also wish to enter their paper for the Forbes Society Prize. The Society's peer-reviewed journal law&history will consider submissions from those who present papers at the conference. In the meantime further information about the conference may be gleaned from David Williams: dv.williams@auckland.ac.nz

Geiringer on Representation-Reenforcement and the NZ Bill of Rights

Claudia Geiringer, Victoria University of Wellington School of Law, has posted When Constitutional Theories Migrate: A Case Study, which is forthcoming in the American Journal of Comparative Law:

The last decade or so has witnessed a burgeoning of literature on the role of cross-jurisdictional influences in the design (as well as subsequent interpretation) of national constitutions. The consensus emerging from that literature is that transnational borrowing in the course of constitutional making is both inevitable and impossible. In a globalized world, those involved in the design of a new constitution naturally look beyond their borders for inspiration. Borrowing is thus endemic. But borrowing, in any true sense, is also impossible because in the process of migration, constitutional ideas must be de- and then re-contextualized in order to fit them for the new legal system.

What, though, if the object of transnational influence is not a constitutional text or an institutional mechanism but, rather, a scholarly theory? That is the question addressed by this article. Specifically, the article examines the intriguing (and little known) story of how John Hart Ely’s representation-reinforcing theory of (American) constitutional interpretation was transformed into a blueprint for the design of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act. It suggests that Ely’s journey to the South Pacific has the potential to illuminate both the study of constitutional migration generally and, more specifically, the linkages between comparative law and constitutional theory.

–Dan Ernst.  H/t: Legal Theory Blog

Vintage New Zealand

Children in the children's ward of Wellington Hospital, ca 1928

  

Deer hunters in a dinghy, ca 1920s

 

Group of people watching the eruption of Mount Ngauruhoe, Waikato, 1926

 

Primary school classroom and pupils, ca. 1920s

 

Women strawberry pickers, Lower Motueka, early 1920s

 

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Charles Yates Fell

A group of members of the Fell and Atkinson families in 

fancy dress outside at Totaranui, January 1890

  

Photographer, camera and a group of women in a rock-walled 

stream valley overhung by native trees, Falls River, 1890

 

Picnic at McKay Bluff, Nelson, 1892

 

Richmond Fell in bed with a broken leg, June 1890

 

Walter Fell and daughters, with Mary Richmond, Wellington, ca 1890

 

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Adam MacLay

Family group outdoors, showing a man, woman and nine children, 1905-26

  

Group of four women and a man wearing hats, 

in an unidentified outdoor location, 1905-26

 

Outdoor wedding group portrait with bride and groom, 1905-26

 

Studio portrait of unidentified couple and a baby, 1905-26

 

Unidentified small boy playing a bugle in a garden, 1905-26

 

Source: Adam MacLay Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

Vintage New Zealand

Cross-country runners run along the beach at Lyall Bay, August 1950

  

Debutantes at a ball at Government House, 21 June 1951

 

Dominion lifesaving championships, Lyall Bay, Wellington, 1950

 

Off-course betting shop in Feilding, 5 April 1951

 

Train at Opua railway station, January 1952

 

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand