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Patrick Brode

Headshot: Patrick Brode
B.A., LL.B. (Windsor), Of the Ontario Bar.

Patrick Brode is a Senior Legal Counsel for the City of Windsor in the areas of labour law, civil litigation and expropriation. He has also acted as a Sessional Lecturer at the Windsor Law Faculty in labour arbitration, legal history and municipal law as well as a Sessional Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Windsor.

Mr. Brode has also been a member of various legal and historical organizations including the Essex County Historical Association and the Essex Law Association.

Mr. Brode has published four monographs for the Osgoode Society. His books have been nominated for several awards. Sir John Beverly Robinson: Bone and Sinew of the Compact was a finalist for the City of Toronto Book Award, and The Odyssey of John Anderson was a finalist for the Trillium Award.

Patrick Brode can be reached at pbrode@city.windsor.on.ca.

Osgoode Society Books by Patrick Brode

Book Cover: Casual Slaughters and Accidental Judgments: Canadian War Crimes Prosecutions, 1944-48
1997
Casual Slaughters and Accidental Judgments: Canadian War Crimes Prosecutions, 1944-48
By: Patrick Brode
by Patrick Brode, Legal Counsel, City of Windsor. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 1997. Casual Slaughters and Accidental Judgments: Canadian War Crimes Prosecutions, 1944-1948…
Book Cover: Courted And Abandoned: Seduction In Canadian Law
2002
Courted And Abandoned: Seduction In Canadian Law
By: Patrick Brode
by Patrick Brode, Legal Counsel, City of Windsor. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 2002. A pregnancy outside of marriage was a traumatic event in…
Book Cover: The Odyssey of John Anderson
1989
The Odyssey of John Anderson
By: Patrick Brode
Patrick Brode, Legal Counsel, City of Windsor. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 1989. Just before the outbreak of the American Civil War, a sensational…
Book Cover: Sir John Beverley Robinson: Bone and Sinew of the Compact
1984
Sir John Beverley Robinson: Bone and Sinew of the Compact
By: Patrick Brode
by Patrick Brode, Legal Counsel, City of Windsor. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 1984. It is appropriate that Patrick Brode’s biography of Sir…

Chapters

‘ “Perverts a Menace”: The Development of the Criminal Sexual Psychopath Offence, 1948’ in Jim Phillips, R. Roy McMurty, and John Saywell, eds., Essays in the History of Canadian Law: Volume X – A Tribute to Peter N. Oliver (Toronto: The Osgoode Society and University of Toronto Press, 2008), pp. 107-128.

Other Books

Death in the Queen City: Clara Ford on Trial, 1895 (Toronto: Natural Heritage, 2005), 184 pp.

Slasher Killings: A Canadian Sex Crime Panic (Detroit: Painted Turtle Press, 2009), 232 pp.

Lawyers of the Southwest: A History of the Essex Law Association (Windsor: Essex Law Press, 2009), 41 pp.

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