A recorded interview with Enid Campbell / interviewer, Dr Ruth Campbell.

s.l. : s.n., 1995

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Campbell, Enid M.

Lawyers -- Australia.

Women lawyers -- Australia.

Legal research -- Australia.

Law schools -- History -- Australia.

Campbell, Professor of Law, Monash University, speaks of her family background, her father was a solicitor in Tasmania with a varied practice, the selective education girls received during the War years, her artistic inclinations such as drawing and piano, her studies at University of Tasmania, her doctoral work at Duke University from 1956, her decision to teach international law at the University of Tasmania in 1959, how she taught at University of Sydney's Dept. of Law, her promotion to senior lecturer in 1962 and later first Australian woman to achieve Associate Professor of Law, the writing of her three classic texts produced from 1965 to 1967, her study of legal history with Willard Hurst at the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1966, how she wrote on U.S. freedom of information legislation here which lead to its introduction into Australia.

Written permission required for research, personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.

Recorded on Nov. 28, 1995 to Dec. 4, 1995 at Monash University, Vic.

Digital master; National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore collection; nla.oh-3376-0000

Oral History Collection.

Transcript (130 leaves)