Osgoode Society Legal History Workshops 2011-2023 OSGOODE SOCIETY LEGAL HISTORY WORKSHOP IN WINTER/SPRING 2024: Wednesday, February 7 – Carolyn Strange, Australian National University: ‘Divided Decisions: R. v. Fitton (1956) in Appeal.’ Wednesday, February 14 – Dan Rueck, University of Ottawa: ‘The King v. Bonhomme, Supreme Court of Canada, 1918: The role of the Department of Indian Affairs in… Read more »
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The African Canadian Legal Odyssey: Historical Essays
edited by Barrington Walker, Professor, Department of History, Queens University. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 2012. One of the central themes of the new legal history of the past two decades has been exploration of the law’s role in shaping the lives and experiences of historically marginalised groups in our society. The Osgoode… Read more »
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The Case of Valentine Shortis: A True Story of Crime and Politics in Canada
by Martin Friedland, Emeritus Professor Law, University of Toronto. Published with the University of Toronto Press. 1986. Since its inception, the Osgoode Society has been anxious to publish scholarly studies of significant Canadian trials. In popular literature this genre, presented in the form of courtroom confrontations, appeals to the imagination and reaches a wide audience. A more… Read more »
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The Osgoode Society-In The News
Osgoode Society book named Number 3 on Hill Times best 100 books of 2017’ https://www.hilltimes.com/2017/12/18/hill-times-list-100-best-books-2017/128829 Recent article and review of Claire L’Heureux -Dube: A Life by Constance Backhouse https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-retired-supreme-court-justice-claire-lheureux-dubes-biography/
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Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume VIII: In Honour of R.C.B. Risk
edited by G. Blaine Baker & Jim Phillips. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 1999. Collections of essays are usually organised around a particular theme. This book, which represents Canadian legal historians’ tribute to Professor Dick Risk, is, at first glance, something of an exception to that practice. The essays here cover subjects which range… Read more »
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February 17, 2021 - Osgoode Society Director, Linda Silver Dranoff, Appointed to the Order of Ontario
Please join us in congratulating Linda Silver Dranoff on being appointed to the Order of Ontario for 2019. For the complete list of appointees, and more information on this honour, please visit https://news.ontario.ca/en/backgrounder/59858/the-2019-appointees-to-the-order-of-ontario. Linda Silver Dranoff — Toronto A lawyer, writer and social justice activist, Linda Silver Dranoff has devoted her career to transforming family law,… Read more »
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April 16, 2021 - Osgoode Society Book Shortlisted for Canadian Historical Association Prize
Our 2020 title Doodem and Council Fire: Anishinaabe Governance through Alliance, by Professor Heidi Bohaker, has been shortlisted for The Canadian Historical Association Prize. The prize is given to the non-fiction work of Canadian history judged to have made the most significant contribution to an understanding of the Canadian past. For more details visit –… Read more »
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March 29, 2022 - Osgoode Society Author, Professor Philip Girard, awarded Mundell Medal
The Ontario government has awarded the 2021 David Walter Mundell Medal for excellence in legal writing to Philip Girard. Please join us in congratulating Professor Girard on this important achievement. https://news.ontario.ca/en/bulletin/1001881/excellence-in-legal-writing-celebrated-with-mundell-medal
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The Fiercest Debate: Cecil A. Wright, The Benchers And Legal Education In Ontario, 1923-1957.
by C. Ian Kyer And Jerome Bickenbach. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 1987. Disagreements over legal education have by no means been restricted to Ontario or to the twentieth century. The nature of legal education was debated in many parts of Europe and North America in the course of the nineteenth century. As the… Read more »
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Provincial Justice: Upper Canadian Legal Portraits
edited by Dr. Robert Fraser. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 1992. This is an important reference guide and a highly entertaining book. In association with the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, which has published twelve monumental volumes dealing with Canadian lives from the year 1000 to 1900, we have selected some sixty biographies of Upper… Read more »
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