Background
Castles was born in Melbourne, Australia.
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Alex Castles
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He attended the Scotch College, the University of Melbourne and the University of Chicago.
Career
He is the author of a number of published books in Australia as well as the author of numerous articles written for various journals. He was a tutor at the University of Melbourne and later served as an Assistant Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1958 he took up a post in the Faculty of Law at the University of Adelaide and in 1967 was appointed a Professor.
He retired in 1994 and was made an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow of the University of Adelaide, later accepted appointment as a Professorial Fellow at the Flinders University School of Law.
Alex Castles died suddenly in December 2003 before he could publish his latest book on Ned Kelly called “Ned Kelly"s Last Days”. A second posthumous book was published in 2003, "Lawless Harvests or God Save the Judges: Van Diemen"s Land 1803-1855, a Legal History" (with Stefan Petrow and Kate Ramsay).
Membership
Castles was one of the founding members of the Australian Law Reform Commission and was a member of the Dix Committee, which conducted a review of the Australian Broadcasting Commission.
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Australia