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Just So: “The Law Which Governs Australia is Australian Law”

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This essay provides a gloss on the relationship between the common law and the ‘law of the land’. It does so by turning attention to the technologies and identifications that continue to give Australian jurisdiction its place. These relations repeat the long pattern of the common law ordering of colonisation. They also provide the governmental conditions of legal responsibility for settlement.

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  1. Faculty of Law, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD 4111, Australia

    Shaunnagh Dorsett & Shaun Mcveigh

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Dorsett, S., Mcveigh, S. Just So: “The Law Which Governs Australia is Australian Law”. Law and Critique 13, 289–309 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021200520452

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