Free Hands and Minds
Subtitle: Pioneering Australian Legal Scholars
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781509922611
Subjects: Teachers; Australia, biography; Lawyers, biography
Description: "Peter Brett (1918–1975), Alice Erh-Soon Tay (1934–2004) and Geoffrey Sawer (1910–1996) are key, yet largely overlooked, members of Australia’s first community of legal scholars. This book is a critical study of how their ideas and endeavours contributed to Australia’s discipline of law and the first Australian legal theories. It examines how three marginal figures – a Jewish man (Brett), a Chinese woman (Tay), and a war orphan (Sawer) – rose to prominence during a transformative period for Australian legal education and scholarship."