By Professor Lisa Ford

Books

Ford L, 2021, Introduction: The King’s Colonial Peace and its Legacies, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674249073

Ford L, 2021, The King's Peace Law and Order in the British Empire, Harvard University Press

Benton L; Ford L, 2016, Rage for Order: The British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800-1850, Harvard University Press

Ford L, 2013, Between Indigenous and Settler Governance, Ford L; Rowse T, (ed.), Routledge, London

Ford L, 2010, Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788-1836, 1, Havard University Press, Cambridge, MA

Book Chapters

Cane P; Ford L; McMillan M, 2022, 'Editor's Introduction', in Cane P; Ford L; McMillan M (ed.), The Cambridge Legal History of Australia, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1 - 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108633949

Ford L; Roberts D, 2022, 'Settlement and Dispossession', in Cane P; Ford L; McMillan M (ed.), The Cambridge Legal History of Australia, Cambridge University Press, pp. 305 - 327

Benton L; Ford L, 2021, 'Empires and the Rule of Law', in The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law, Cambridge University Press, pp. 101 - 118

Benton L; Ford L, 2020, 'Legal Panics, Fast and Slow: Slavery and the Constitution of Empire', in Edelstein D; Geroulanos S; Wheatley N (ed.), Power and Time Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, pp. 295 - 316

Ford L, 2017, 'Protecting the Peace on the Edges of Empire: Commissioners of Crown Lands in New South Wales', in Protection and Empire: A Global History, Cambridge University Press, pp. 175 - 193

Ford L, 2014, 'Law', in Armitage D; Bashford A (ed.), Pacific Histories: Ocean, Land, People, edn. Original, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke and New York, http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/pacific-histories-david-armitage/?K=9781137001658

Roberts D; Ford L, 2013, 'Expansion, 1820-1850', in Macintyre ABS (ed.), The Cambridge History of Australia : Volume 1 Indigenous and Colonial Australia, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, pp. 121 - 148, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CHO9781107445758.009

Ford L, 2013, 'Locating Indigenous Self-Determination in the Margins of Settler Sovereignty: An Introduction', in Ford L; Rowse T (ed.), Between Indigenous and Settler Governance, Routledge, London, pp. 1 - 11, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000348600500001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a

Benton L; Ford L, 2013, 'Magistrates in Empire: Convicts, Slaves, and the Remaking of the Plural Order in the British Empire', in Legal Pluralism and Empires, 1500-1850, New York University Press, New York and London, pp. 173 - 198, https://nyupress.org/books/book-details.aspx?bookId=10774

McHugh P; Ford L, 2013, 'Settler Sovereignty and the Shapeshifting Crown', in Ford L; Rowse T (ed.), Between Indigenous and Settler Governance, Routledge, London, pp. 23 - 34, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000348600500003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a

Ford L, 2012, 'Locating indigenous self-determination in the margins of settler sovereignty: An introduction', in Between Indigenous and Settler Governance, pp. 1 - 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203085028-7

McHugh P; Ford L, 2012, 'Settler sovereignty and the shapeshifting Crown', in Between Indigenous and Settler Governance, pp. 23 - 34, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203085028-9

Ford L, 2010, 'The Pig and the Peace: Transposing Order in Early Sydney', in Dorsett S; Hunter I (ed.), Law and Politics and British Colonial Thought: Transpositions of Empire, edn. Original, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, pp. 169 - 186

Ford L, 2009, 'Before Settler Sovereignty and After Aboriginal Sovereignty: New South Wales in Global Perspective', in Attwood B; Griffiths T (ed.), Frontier, Race, Nation: Henry Reynolds and Australian History, edn. 1, Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne, pp. 185 - 208

Edited Books

Cane P; Ford L; McMillan M, (eds.), 2022, The Cambridge Legal History of Australia, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108633949

Journal articles

McKenzie K; Ford L, 2022, 'A Dance of Crown and Parliament: Empire and Reform in the Age of Liverpool', The English Historical Review, 137, pp. 1606 - 1632, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead024

Ford L, 2022, 'Sovereignty and the Problem of Order in Belize, 1763-1821', Forum Historiae Iuris, pp. 1 - 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.26032/fhi-2022-015

Doherty S; Ford L; McKenzie K; Parkinson N; Roberts D; Halliday P; Laidlaw Z; Lester A; Stern P, 2021, 'Inquiring into the corpus of empire', Journal of World History: official journal of the World History Association, 32

Parkinson N; Doherty S; Ford L, 2021, 'A Commissioner’s Day: Quantitative approaches to the study of evidence in royal commissions of inquiry', Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 37, pp. 185 - 201, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqab027

Roberts DA; Ford L, 2021, 'Editorial', Australian Historical Studies, 52, pp. 467 - 469, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2021.1983933

Ford L; Parkinson N, 2021, 'Legislating Liberty: Liberated Africans and the Abolition Act, 1806–1824', Slavery and Abolition, 42, pp. 827 - 846, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2021.1972641

Ford L; Roberts DA, 2020, 'The Convict Peace: The Imperial Context of the 1833 Convict Revolt at Castle Forbes', The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 49, pp. 1 - 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2020.1848401

Ford L, 2019, 'Old histories and weak states: a reflection on ‘Thinking the Empire Whole’', History Australia, 16, pp. 646 - 650, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2019.1670696

Benton L; Ford L, 2018, 'Island Despotism: Trinidad, the British Imperial Constitution and Global Legal Order', Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 46, pp. 21 - 46, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2017.1379671

Booth K; Ford L, 2016, 'Ross v Chambers: Assimilation law and policy in the Northern Territory', Aboriginal History, 40, pp. 3 - 25, http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/n2179/pdf/article01.pdf

Ford L; Roberts DA, 2016, '‘Mr Peel’s Amendments’ in New South Wales: Imperial criminal reform in a distant penal colony', Journal of Legal History, 37, pp. 198 - 214, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01440365.2016.1191591

Ford L; Roberts D, 2015, '"Legal Change, Convict Activism and the Reform of Penal Relocation in Colonial New South Wales: The Port Macquarie Penal Settlement, 1822–26"', Australian Historical Studies, 46, pp. 174 - 190, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2015.1037319

Ford L, 2014, 'Antislavery and the Reconstitution of Empire', Australian Historical Studies, 45, pp. 71 - 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2013.877502

Ford L; Roberts DA, 2014, 'New South Wales penal settlements and the transformation of secondary punishment in the nineteenth-century British Empire', Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 15, pp. n/a, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cch.2014.0038

Brawley SS; Clark J; Dixon C; Grolman L; Ross S; Upton SI; Ford L, 2011, 'Applying standards to tertiary-level history: Policy, challenges and the After Standards project', History Australia, 8, pp. 177 - 194

Ford L, 2011, 'Thinking big about New South Wales history: colonial law in global perspective.', Australian Bar Review, 34, pp. 204 - 213

Ford L; Salter B, 2008, 'From Pluralism to Territorial Sovereignty: The 1816 Trial of Mow-watty in the Superior Court of New South Wales', Indigenous Law Journal, 7, pp. 67 - 86

Ford L, 2008, 'Indigenous Policy and its Historical Occlusions: The North American and Global Contexts of Australian Settlement', Australian Indigenous Law Review, 12, pp. 69 - 80

Ford L, 2006, 'Empire and Order on the Colonial Frontiers of Georgia and New South Wales', Itinerario: journal on the history of European expansion and global interaction, 3, pp. 95 - 113

Ford L, 1999, 'Heroes, Villains and Wicked Priests: Authority and Story in the Histories of Simon Schama', Clio - a Journal of Literature History and the Philosophy of History, 29, pp. 23 - 46

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