Essays In The History Of Canadian Law, Vol. I.
1981
Published for the Osgoode Society by the University of Toronto Press
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This volume, containing ten essays, is the first of two designed to illustrate the wide possibilities for research and writing in Canadian legal history and reflecting the current interests of those working in that area. Topics covered include historical aspects of company law, the law and the economy, legal reform in Ontario, custody law, the law of master and servant, the law of nuisance, origins of the Canadian Criminal Code, and women's rights in Quebec. Professor Flaherty supplies an introduction to the writing of Canadian legal history and, with his contributors, provides an important building block on which a significant tradition of indigenous legal history in Canada may grow and flourish.
A valuable showcase for the impressive work currently being done in Canadian legal history, and a very extensive agenda of scholarship for the future. John McLaren, Canadian Bar Review, vol 62, 1984
This collection will add considerably to the literature, and should stimulate students to approach the unanswered (and unasked) questions with increasingly valuable results.... The whole volume, and the society that supported its publication, will do much to foster the development of a sophisticated and comparative history of Canadian law. Douglas Hay, Canadian Historical Review, vol 64, 1983
An excellent collection of thoughtful and thought-provoking papers that firmly establishes Canadian legal history as a valuable field of study in need of considerable exploration. Paul Schabas, University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review, vol 74, 1984
