A History of Australian Tort Law 1901–1945

Shaping Justice: Australian Tort Law 1901-1945

Little attention has been paid to the development of Australian private law throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Using the law of tort as an example, Mark Lunney argues that Australian contributions to common law development need to be viewed in the context of the British race patriotism that characterised the intellectual and cultural milieu of Australian legal practitioners.

Using not only primary legal material…