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  • May 5, 2016 - David Fraser, “Honorary Protestants”: The Jewish School Question in Montreal, 1867-1997, has been shortlisted for the Canadian Law and Society Association Book Prize.

    One of the Osgoode Society’s 2015 books, David Fraser, “Honorary Protestants”: The Jewish School Question in Montreal, 1867-1997, has been shortlisted for the  Canadian Law and Society Association Book Prize.

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  • Chris Moore

    March 10, 2016 - Moore’s History of the Ontario Court of Appeal honoured by Ontario’s Speakers Book Awards

    Christopher Moore was recently honoured by being one of the finalists for Ontario Speaker Dave Levac’s Speakers Book Award. He received his medal at a ceremony held on March 7th. We congratulate Chris on this notable achievement.

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  • June 19, 2015 - Justice Robert J. Sharpe new president of the Osgoode Society

    At this evening’s meeting of the board of directors of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, Justice Robert J. Sharpe of the Ontario Court of Appeal was elected president of the Society. While R. Roy McMurtry, the founder and of the society and its long-serving president, has decided to step down, he will not… Read more »

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  • May 6, 2015 - Osgoode Society awarded 2015 Hugh Lawford Prize for Excellence in Legal Publishing

    The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History book series was the winner of the 2015 Hugh Lawford Award for Excellence in Legal Publishing awarded by the Canadian Association of Law Libraries at their annual meeting in Moncton.  Congratulations to President/founder R. Roy McMurtry, editor in chief Jim Phillips, associate editor Philip Girard, and our authors past, present and… Read more »

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Recent News

  • February 17, 2021 Osgoode Society Director, Linda Silver Dranoff, Appointed to the Order of Ontario
  • December 1, 2020 Osgoode Society Editor-in-Chief, Professor Jim Phillips, has been inducted into the Bertha Wilson Honour Society at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University.
  • June 22, 2020 The Osgoode Society Announces Awards for 2020
  • June 3, 2020 Osgoode Society Book is the Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History and has won the Governor General’s History Award for Scholarly Research
  • September 16, 2019 Osgoode Society Author Blake Brown Recognized by The Royal Society of Canada
  • June 6, 2019 The Osgoode Society Awards Announced
  • June 6, 2019 A History of Law in Canada Volume 1: Beginnings to 1866 wins Honourable Mention for the W. Wesley Pue book prize
  • September 5, 2018 Osgoode Society Osgoode Society book named Number 3 on Hill Times best 100 books of 2017’
  • September 5, 2018 Recent Article and Review of Claire L'Heureux-Dube: A Life by Constance Backhouse
  • June 1, 2018 The Osgoode Society Awards honour emerging and established scholars, promote Canadian legal history
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The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History was established in 1979 to promote the publication of work on the history of Canadian law, and to create and preserve an oral history archive.

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