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David Ricardo Williams worked as a lawyer in British Columbia and was also a writer of both fiction and history. His first book was a history of his parish and after this he wrote books mostly concerned with legal and political figures. Williams was called to the B.C. bar in 1949 and subsequently moved to… Read more »

Carol Wilton, formerly Assistant Professor of History at Brock University, has written and edited a number of books on Canadian legal and political history. After being called to the Bar of Ontario in 2002, she worked in both legal clinics and private practice. She has been involved in many community organizations, including the Poverty Action… Read more »

Barry Wright is a professor in the Department of Law at Carleton University. His teaching interests are the history of criminal law and its administration, comparative colonial legal history, constitutional law and legal, social and political theory. Since joining Carleton in 1986, he has been a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies… Read more »

Brian Young is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University. He taught history at McGill from 1975 until his retirement in 2009. His research interests centre on the social and cultural experience of the nineteenth-century Quebec elite. He is also a founding member of the Montreal History Group, a… Read more »

Bruce Ziff is a professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta. His main research interest is in the area of property law, and he is the author of the leading Canadian text, Principles of Property Law, now in its fifth edition. In 1988 he received the A.C. Rutherford Award for Excellence… Read more »