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Ford L, 2024, 'Elizabeth Elbourne. Empire, Kinship and Violence: Family Histories, Indigenous Rights and the Making of Settler Colonialism, 1770–1842.', The American Historical Review, 129, pp. 1308 - 1309, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhae282

Ford L, 2024, 'Commentary', History Australia, 21, pp. 479 - 483, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2024.2339410

Ford L, 2024, 'Christian R. Burset, An Empire of Laws: Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023. Pp. 272. $75.00 hardcover (ISBN 9780300253238). doi:10.2307/jj.5666741', Law and History Review, 42, pp. 937 - 939, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0738248024000154

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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2021.0022

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, 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

Ford L, 2019, 'Allan Greer. Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America.', The American Historical Review, 124, pp. 234 - 235, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhy439

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

Ford L, 2017, 'Ann McGrath. Illicit Love: Interracial Sex and Marriage in the United States and Australia.', The American Historical Review, 122, pp. 470 - 472, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ahr/122.2.470

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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