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2005 Annual Publication
LEGAL PUBLISHING WITHOUT BORDERS
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The aim of this publication is two-fold: first, to showcase some of the papers presented as part of the 2005 program of the Australian Legal Philosophy Students Association (ALPSA); and second, to represent ALPSA’s broad approach to legal philosophy, an approach informed by comparative, sociological and historical dimensions of law.
In order to fulfil the second aim, submissions were called for in early 2005 for any article under the overall theme Alternative Histories of Law and Legal Theory. The idea was to encourage students, practitioners and academics from around the world to write about jurisprudential issues in non-English speaking societies and traditions in the hope of conveying the untapped richness of jurisprudential traditions worldwide. As such, we encouraged contributors to consider the migration of ideas across borders, and to walk up and down the ladders of time, digging deep to recover forgotten thinkers or ideas. The response to our call was overwhelmingly positive. Many articles were submitted from around the world. Those finally chosen discuss Indian, Hungarian, Argentinean, Buddhist, Turkish, Japanese, Chinese and Jewish legal systems.
The publication consists of seven sections: (1) the Annual Lecture address and a companion paper; (2) two papers from our 2005 Seminar Series on the Philosophical Foundations of Commercial Law; (3) seven papers related directly to our theme of Legal Histories, Legal Traditions; (4) a paper on Legal Professional Ethics; (5) three Legal Philosophy Fact Sheets; (6) three book reviews; and (7) two announcements from supporters of the publication.
CONTENTS
Foreword
The Hon. Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG
Introduction: Legal Publishing Without Borders
Max Leskiewicz and Katherine Del Mar
Does Law Really Matter?
Sir Neil MacCormick
Is the Law an Affair of Rules?
Sundram Soosay
Themes and Tensions Underlying the Law of Contract
Sir Anthony Mason
The Courts and Consumerism: Damages for Economic Loss
The Hon. Justice P A Keane
The Birth of the Common Law
Baron R.C. van Caenegem
Law and...Kuchipudi
Patrick Glenn
Philosophising on Law in the Turmoil of Communist Take-over in Hungary (Two Portraits, Interwar and Post-war)
Csaba Varga
Legal Reasoning in Developing Countries: the Case of Argentina
Sebastian Elias
Judicial Positivism in the Turkish State
Gülriz Uygur
Natural Law and the Social Contract: the Buddha and Francis Bacon
Andrew Huxley
An Appeal to Foreign Students of Law from a Japanese Student
Masaji Chiba
A Conception of Phenomenological Legal Ethics
Marcin Pieniazek
Legal Culture
David Nelken
Philosophy of Jewish Law
Bernard Jackson
Semiotics of Law
Bernard Jackson
A Prolegomena to a Hermeneutics of Law by Jarrko Tontti
Reviewed by Max Leskiewicz
Prescriptive Legal Positivism by Tom Campbell
Reviewed by Nicholas Lingard
Chinese Law: a Language Perspective by Deborah Cao
Reviewed by Katy Lin
An Ounce of Prevention… An Introduction to Preventive Law
Joe Kafrouni
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2004 ALPSA Annual Publication
LAW, MEMORY & LITERATURE
The theme for the 2004 Annual Publication was Law, Memory and Literature.
Contributors included The Hon. Justice Ian Callinan (High Court of Australia), Prof. William Twining, Prof. Peter Brooks, Prof. Richard Weisberg, Prof. Costas Doucines, Prof. Austin Sarat, and many others. The format of contributions is wide: there are essays, short stories, poems, photographs and artwork. A full contents page is available here.
The official launch of the publication was held on Sunday 11th July, at the Australian Law & Literature Association Conference. The publication was launched by well-known Queensland Law & Literature couple, Professor Richard Fotheringham (Head of EMSAH, University of Queensland) and The Hon. Justice Roslyn Atkinson (Supreme Court, Queensland). The text of the official launch can be found here.
Where Can I Purchase a copy of Law, memory & Literature?
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