Barry Wright

Osgoode Society Books by Barry Wright

1996

Canadian State Trials, Volume I: Law, Politics, and Security Measures, 1608-1837

By: F. Murray Greenwood, Barry Wright

edited by F. Murray Greenwood, Emeritus Professor of History, University of British Columbia and Barry Wright, Professor, Department of Law, Carleton University. Published with the University…

2002

Canadian State Trials Volume II: Rebellion and Invasion in the Canadas, 1837-1839

By: F. Murray Greenwood, Barry Wright

edited by F. Murray Greenwood, Emeritus Professor of History, University of British Columbia and Barry Wright, Professor, Department of Law, Carleton University. Published with the University…

2009

Canadian State Trials Volume III: Political Trials and Security Measures, 1840-1914

By: Barry Wright, Susan Binnie

edited by Barry Wright, Department of Law, Carleton University, and Dr. Susan Binnie. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 2009. This third volume of the…

2015

Security, Dissent and the Limits of Toleration in War and Peace: Canadian State Trials Volume IV, 1914-1939

By: Barry Wright, Eric Tucker, Susan Binnie

Edited by Barry Wright, Department of Law, Carleton University, Eric Tucker, Osgoode Hall Law School, and Susan Binnie, Independent Historian, published by the University of…

2022

Canadian State Trials Volume V: World War, Cold War and Challenges to Sovereignty, 1939-1990

By: Barry Wright, Eric Tucker, Susan Binnie

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…

Chapters

‘Introduction: From State Trials to National Security Measures’ in Barry Wright, Susan Binnie, eds., Canadian State Trials, Volume III: Political Trials and Security Measures, 1840-1914 (Toronto: The Osgoode Society and University of Toronto Press, 2009), pp. 3-32 (with Susan Binnie).

‘Summary and Incompetent Justice: An Overview of Legal Response to the 1885 Crisis” in above, pp. 353-410 (with Bob Beal).

‘Codification, Public Order, and the Security Provisions of the Canadian Criminal Code, 1892’ in above, pp. 516-563 (with Desmond H. Brown).

‘Libel and the Colonial Administration of Justice in Upper Canada and New South Wales c.1825-30’ in H. Foster, B. Berger and A. Bucks, eds., The Grand Experiment: Law and Legal Culture in British Settler Societies (Vancouver: The Osgoode Society and University of British Columbia Press, 2008), pp. 15-37.

‘Introduction: Rebellion, Invasion and the Crisis of the Colonial State’ in F. Murray Greenwood, Barry Wright, eds., Canadian State Trials, Volume II: Rebellion and Invasion in the Canadas, 1837-1838 (Toronto: The Osgoode Society and University of Toronto Press, 2002), pp. 3-37 (with F. Murray Greenwood).

‘The Toronto Treason Trials, March-May 1838’ in above, pp. 62-99 (with Paul Romney).

‘The Kingston and London Courts Martial, 1838-1839’ in above, pp. 130-159.

‘State Trials, the Rule of Law and Executive Powers in Early Canada’ in F Murray Greenwood and Barry Wright, eds., Canadian State Trials, Volume I: Law, Politics and Security Measures, 1608-1837 (Toronto: The Osgoode Society and University of Toronto Press, 1996), pp. 3-51 (with F. Murray Greenwood).

‘State Trials and Security Proceedings in Upper Canada During the War of 1812’ in above, pp. 379-405 (with Paul Romney).

‘Parliamentary Privilege and the Repression of Dissent in the Canadas’ in above, pp. 409-449 (with F. Murray Greenwood).

‘The Gourlay Affair: Seditious Libel and the Sedition Act in Upper Canada, 1818-1819’ in above, pp. 487-504.

Other Books

‘Macaulay’s India Law Reforms and Labour in the British Empire,’ in Shaunnagh Dorsett and John McLaren eds., Legal Histories of the British Empire: Laws, Engagements and Legacies (London: Routledge, 2014), pp. 218-33

‘Renovate or Rebuild? Treatises, Digests and Criminal Law Codification,’ in A. Fernandez and M. Dubber, eds., Law Books in Action: Essays on the Anglo-American Legal Treatise (Hart: Oxford and Portland, 2012), pp. 181-201

‘Macaulay’s India Penal Code and Codification in the Nineteenth Century British Empire, ‘ Journal of Commonwealth Criminal Law, Vol 2, 2012, pp. 25-50

Codification, Macaulay and the Indian Penal Code: The Legacies and Modern Challenges of Criminal Law Reform (UK: Ashgate Publishing Co, 2011), 379 pp. (editor with Wing-Cheong Chan and Stanley Yeo)

‘Imaginary Sedition: Law and the Emerging Public Sphere in Upper Canada c.1798-1828’ in Logan Atkinson and Diana Majury, eds., Law, Mystery and the Humanities: Collected Essays (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008), pp. 167-213.

‘Criminal Law Codification and Imperial Projects: The Self-Governing Jurisdiction Codes of the 1890s’ Legal History, Vol 12, 2008, pp. 19-49.

‘Self-Governing Codifications of English Criminal Law and Empire: The Queensland and Canadian Examples’ University of Queensland Law Journal, Vol 26, 2007, pp. 39-65.

‘Migration, Radicalism and State Security: Legislative Initiatives in the Canadas and the United States c.1794-1804′ Studies in American Political Development, Vol 16, 2002, pp. 48-000

‘Harshness and Forbearance: The Politics of Pardons and the Upper Canadian Rebellion’ in C. Strange, ed., Qualities of Mercy (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1996), pp. 77-103.

‘Sedition in Upper Canada: Contested Legality’ Labour/Le Travail, Vol 29, 1992, pp. 7-57. Winner of the O.H.A. Riddell Award for best article about Ontario History, 1992.

‘Criminal Proceedings and the Transformative Potential of Law: Taking Historical Experiences Seriously’ Journal of Human Justice, Vol 3, 1991, pp. 7-26.

Canadian Perspectives on Law and Society: Issues in Legal History (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1988), 353 pp. (editor with W. Wesley Pue)

‘Towards a New Canadian Legal History’ Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Vol 22, 1984, pp. 349-374.

‘The Ideological Dimensions of Law in Upper Canada: The Treason Proceedings of 1838’ Criminal Justice History: An International Annual, Vol 10, 1989, pp. 131-178.