Andrew Buck

Adjunct professor

Dr Buck was a professor in the law school at Macquarie University, in Sydney, Australia where he taught legal history and property. He has authored and/or co-edited six books in the field of legal history, with particular reference to property law. He was previously the editor of The Australian Journal of Legal History.

Books (authored and/or co-edited):

Land and Freedom: Law, Property Rights and the British Diaspora (Ashgate, 2001),  co-edited with John McLaren and Nancy Wright.

Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England (University of Toronto Press, 2004), co-edited with Nancy Wright and Margaret Ferguson.

Despotic Dominion: Property Rights in British Settler Societies (University of British Columbia Press, 2005), co-edited with John McLaren and Nancy Wright.

The Poor Man: Law and Satire in nineteenth century New South Wales (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2005), co-edited with Nancy Wright. 

The Making of Australian Property Law (The Federation Press, 2006).

The Grand Experiment: Law and Legal Culture in British Settler Societies (University of British Columbia Press, 2008), co-edited with Hamar Foster and Ben Berger.