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This book considers how legal history has shaped and continues
to shape our shared present. Each chapter draws a clear and
significant connection to a meaningful feature of our lives today.
Focusing primarily on England and Australia, contributions show the
diversity of approaches to legal history’s relevance to the
present. Some contributors have a tight focus on legal decisions of
particular importance. Others take much bigger picture overview of
major changes that take centuries to register and where impact is
still felt. The contributors are a mix of legal historians,
practising lawyers, members of the judiciary, and legal academics,
and develop analysis from a range of sources from statutes and
legal treatises to television programs. Major legal personalities
from Edward Marshall Hall to Sir Dudley Ryder are considered, as
are landmarks in law from the Magna Carta to the Mabo Decision.
This book considers how legal history has shaped and continues to
shape our shared present. Each chapter draws a clear and
significant connection to a meaningful feature of our lives today.
Focusing primarily on England and Australia, contributions show the
diversity of approaches to legal history's relevance to the
present. Some contributors have a tight focus on legal decisions of
particular importance. Others take much bigger picture overview of
major changes that take centuries to register and where impact is
still felt. The contributors are a mix of legal historians,
practising lawyers, members of the judiciary, and legal academics,
and develop analysis from a range of sources from statutes and
legal treatises to television programs. Major legal personalities
from Edward Marshall Hall to Sir Dudley Ryder are considered, as
are landmarks in law from the Magna Carta to the Mabo Decision.
The growing presence in Western society of non-mainstream faiths
and spiritual practices poses a dilemma for the law. Building on a
thorough history of the legal regulation of fortune-telling laws in
four countries, Faith or Fraud examines the impact of people who
identify as "spiritual but not religious" (SBNR) on the future
legal understanding of religious freedom. Unlike SBNR belief
systems that can encompass multiple religions, philosophies, and
folklore, traditional legal interpretations of "freedom of
religion" are based on organized religion and are ultimately shown
to have failed to evolve along with ideas about religion itself.
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Dinosaur Bay (Paperback)
Jeremy Patrick Bickham
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The growing presence in Western society of non-mainstream faiths
and spiritual practices poses a dilemma for the law. Building on a
thorough history of the legal regulation of fortune-telling laws in
four countries, Faith or Fraud examines the impact of people who
identify as "spiritual but not religious" (SBNR) on the future
legal understanding of religious freedom. Unlike SBNR belief
systems that can encompass multiple religions, philosophies, and
folklore, traditional legal interpretations of "freedom of
religion" are based on organized religion and are ultimately shown
to have failed to evolve along with ideas about religion itself.
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