My Life in Crime and Other Academic Adventures
by Martin Friedland, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto.
Published by the Osgoode Society and the University of Toronto Press
Cost: $42.50 incl. GST
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Description
Professor Martin Friedland has been involved in many areas of legal research and law reform in his career, and the Osgoode Society is very pleased to be able to publish his account of that involvement, especially as his public service includes many years as a director of the Society. This book examines his contributions and sets them in the broader context of public policy making across a range of issues. These include various aspects of criminal justice reform, securities regulation, judicial independence and accountability, anti-terrorism policy, and much more.
Martin Friedland's ...book ... is both a personal memoir and a lively review of much that has happened in Canadian legal policy during the
last forty years. Most of My Life in Crime explores the many public
policy inquiries to which Friedland has contributed over the years. He
advised on the regulation of gambling and other questions of public
morality. He did one of the early studies of gun control. He reported
on regulation of the securities industry. He contributed to studies of
the structure of the courts, legal aid, national security law,
wrongful conviction, and military justice reform.... Any lawyer or
student interested in these issues will find much of value in
Friedland's survey of each and may be surprised at how lively and
engaging Friedland's narratives of them are. Throughout, he mixes the
public policy story with a funny, upbeat, unpretentious autobiography
that testifies to his myriad friendships, his relentless enthusiasm
for new experience, his gift for team building and, it seems, his unfailingly sunny outlook. Christopher Moore, Law Times, 7 July 2008
