• In Memoriam – Fred Kaufman

    Fred Kaufman, a retired Judge of the Quebec Court of Appeal, passed away in early January. Fred’s remarkable life, from fleeing Austria as a refugee from the Nazis to time in an interment camp in New Brunswick as an ‘enemy alien’ , to law school, law practice and the Court of Appeal is chronicled in… Read more »

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  • Osgoode Society Oral History Director Featured in Globe and Mail

    The Osgoode Society’s Oral History Director, Professor Patricia McMahon, was featured in a Globe and Mail article on Saturday November 11th about the problems she and other historians are having with access to information requests to Library and Archives Canada. The article, and accompanying podcast, are available here- https://www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the-decibel/article-canadas-broken-information-laws-keep-history-in-the-dark/  

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  • In Memoriam

    CHRIS ENGLISH. The Osgoode Society notes with deep regret the passing of one of our authors, Christopher (Chris)  English, in St John’s on August 11, 2023. Chris was for many years a Professor of History at Memorial University of Newfoundland, and a distinguished scholar of the history of France. In 1990, in the midst of… Read more »

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  • Osgoode Society President, The Hon. Robert Sharpe, Awarded Order of Canada

    Osgoode Society President Robert Sharpe was awarded the Order of Canada for his distinguished contributions to the advancement of law in Canada as both a judge and academic. Congratulations  Mr. President.

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  • Osgoode Society Book Wins The Canadian Law and Society Association Prize

    The Canadian Law and Society Association has chosen, as the best book published in 2022, Jim Phillips, Philip Girard, and R. Blake Brown, A History of Law in Canada Volume II: Law for the New Dominion, 1867-1914. This was one of our members’ books for 2022. Please join us in congratulating the authors.

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  • In Memoriam Horace Krever

    The Honourable Horace Krever passed away on April 30. A graduate of the University of Toronto who then practiced law and taught at his alma mater, he was appointed a judge of the then Supreme Court of Ontario in 1975 and elevated to the Court of Appeal in 1986, where he served until retirement in… Read more »

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  • Osgoode Society Authors on The Champlain Society Podcast

    In this podcast episode, Nicole O’Byrne speaks to Barry Wright about his book Canadian State Trials, Volume V: World War, Cold War, and Challenges to Sovereignty, 1939–1990, co-edited with Susan Binnie and Eric Tucker. The book was published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by the University of Toronto Press in 2022. https://champlainsociety.utpjournals.press/podcast/wty/national-security-measures-political-trials-canadian-state-trials-1939-1990-with-barry-wright… Read more »

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  • Chief Justice Tulloch

    The Osgoode Society congratulates long-serving Board member Justice Michael Tulloch on his appointment as Chief Justice of Ontario. This is a much-deserved honour and we know that Michael will be a great leader of the Ontario judiciary.

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  • In Memoriam – David Flaherty

    Professor Emeritus David Flaherty passed away on October 11, 2022, in Victoria. In the 1970s and 1980s David was a Professor of Law and History at what was then the University of Western Ontario. Although principally an Americanist, he was an ideal choice to organize and edit the Osgoode Society’s first major forays into serious… Read more »

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  • Osgoode Society 2021 Members book awarded Best Book in Canadian Studies and Indigenous History

    The Osgoode Society members book for 2021, Daniel Rück, The Laws and the Land: The Settler Colonial Invasion of Kahnawà:ke in Nineteenth-Century Canada has recently been awarded two major prizes. It has been chosen as the co-winner of the Best Book in Indigenous History by the Canadian Historical Association. It has also been chosen as… Read more »

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