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Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ4824839 ↗
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The Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society was founded in 1993 and is a learned society for legal historians. Its membership is based primarily in Australia and New Zealand, and includes professional and academic historians as well as lawyers. Its main function is to organise an annual legal history conference, and it also publishes occasional journals, most recently the Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society e-Journal.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1993-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Australian, Zealand and History can be independently traced.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4824839. VIAF identifies the subject as 143417895. The Library of Congress control number is no2004050857. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1993.

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This entry incorporates text from “Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.