LAND and FREEDOM: The 18th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society, will be held in Newcastle, Australia, 9-11 July 1999. All information regarding the conference is available on the conference website:

http://econ-www.newcastle.edu.au/conferences/land/

The website contains the conference program, on-line registration, information regarding travel, accommodation, and links to the local region.

The principal theme of this year's conference is property and politics, and includes a large number of papers on indigenous peoples' property rights, with participants from Canada, the United States, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.