Vol. 40 No. 1 (2021): The University of Queensland Law Journal
Book reviews

Legal History Matters: From Magna Carta to the Clinton Impeachment

Warren Swain
The University of Auckland

Published 2021-03-26

Abstract

Legal history is sometimes seen, to quote William Wordsworth, as little more than the study of ‘old, unhappy, far-off things’.1 Paul Finn recently observed that legal history has, ‘for the most part, … been marginalised to the point of near extinction’.