What is it about?
What does it mean to be conquered? What are the legal repercussions? What is politics and what is law? Discussions around conquest require - legally - an understanding of the perspective of the conqueror and the conquered. This paper paper offers the first exploration of the idea from an Australian perspective.
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Why is it important?
This paper looks to address the various legal frameworks applicable around colonisation and in-particular the meaning of conquest. It applies Blackstone's concept of conquest to the Australian colonial experience, to see how accurate modern claims of conquest really are.
Perspectives
Writing this article was an intellectual journey, requiring massive re-assessment of legal frameworks and politics.
Sam White
National University of Singapore
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This page is a summary of: Braiding Boomerangs: A Reappraisal of the Law of Conquest in 1788, November 2024, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004699663_004.
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