Osgoode Society Books
Our books are listed here chronologically by date of publication. Use the Search function to the right to find a particular book, or author.
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A History of Law in Canada Volume II: Law for the New Dominion, 1867-1914
By Jim Phillips, Philip Girard, and R. Blake Brown, published by the University of Toronto Press. Jim Phillips is Professor of Law and History at the University of Toronto. Philip Girard is Professor of Law and History at Osgoode Hall Law School/ York University. Blake Brown is Professor of History at St Mary’s University, Halifax. This… Read more »
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Reckoning with Racism: Police, Judges, and the RDS Case
By Constance Backhouse – Professor at the University of Ottawa The RDS case is Canada’s most momentous race case. For the first time, the Supreme Court of Canada considered a complaint of judicial racial bias. Complacency about the racial neutrality of an all-white judiciary was thrown into question. Ironically, the judge in question was Corrine… Read more »
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Canadian State Trials Volume V: World War, Cold War and Challenges to Sovereignty, 1939-1990
Edited by J. Barry Wright, Susan Binnie and Eric Tucker. Published by the University of Toronto Press. Barry Wright is Professor of Law and Criminology at Carleton University. Eric Tucker is a Professor at Ogoode Hall Law School. Susan Binnie is an independent scholar. The fifth and final volume of the Canadian state trials series… Read more »
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The Laws and the Land: The Settler Colonial Invasion of Kahnawà:ke in Nineteenth-Century Canada
By Daniel Rück, Associate Professor of History, University of Ottawa, published by the University of British Columbia Press. The Laws and the Land is a history of the relationship between Kahnawà:ke and Canada. It is the story of land and law set in the territory of the sovereign Kanien’kehá:ka nation near Montreal, focused on the colonial… Read more »
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The Federal Court of Appeal and the Federal Court: 50 Years of History
Edited by Professors Martine Valois (University of Montreal), Ian Greene (York University), Craig Forcese (University of Ottawa), and Peter McCormick (University of Lethbridge). Published by Irwin Law. The book marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Federal Court of Canada in 1971 and assesses the contributions of the Federal Court and the Federal Court… Read more »
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A History of Canadian Income Tax. Volume I: The Income War Tax Act 1917-1948
By Professor Colin Campbell of Western University and Robert Raizenne of Osler Hoskin, published by the Canadian Tax Foundation. This is the first book-length study of the origins of Canada’s income tax, and its development during the inter-war period and the second world war. The authors, both experts in tax law and both imbued with… Read more »
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Truth and Privilege: Libel Law in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, 1820-1840
By Professor Lyndsay Campbell of the University of Calgary. Published by Cambridge University Press, and a joint publication in the Osgoode Society Series and the American Society for Legal History’ Studies in Legal History Series. Truth and Privilege is a comparative study of the interplay among legal and constitutional traditions, political and religious controversy, publishing practices,… Read more »
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Doodem and Council Fire: Anishinaabe Governance through Alliance
By Professor Heidi Bohaker. The Osgoode Society is thrilled to announce that Doodem and Council Fire: Anishinaabe Governance through Alliance, by Professor Heidi Bohaker, has been awarded the Canadian Historical Association’s Prize for Best Book in Political History Prize. Congratulations to Professor Bohaker. Please join us in congratulating Heidi Bohaker on winning the 2020-21 Joseph… Read more »
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The Death Penalty and Sex Murder in Canadian History
By Carolyn Strange, University of Toronto Press. This major study of the operation of the death penalty focusses on the disposition by executive review of all cases between Confederation and the abolition of the death penalty in which the offender not only committed murder but did so at the same time as he (or she)… Read more »
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Wounded Feelings: Litigating Emotions in Quebec, 1870-1950
Eric Reiter’s Wounded Feelings: Litigating Emotions in Quebec, has been named as a co-winner of the monograph prize from the Fondation du Barreau du Québec. The official notice can be found here: https://www.fondationdubarreau.qc.ca/decouvrez-les-laureats-du-concours-juridique-2021-et-les-regles-de-ledition-2022/. The Osgoode Society is thrilled to announce that Wounded Feelings: Litigating Emotions in Quebec 1870-1950, by Professor Eric Reiter, has been awarded the Canadian Historical… Read more »