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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September 4, 2023 - In Memoriam
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Jim Phillips
Jim Phillips is Professor of Law, History and Criminology at the University of Toronto, and editor-in-chief of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. He was law clerk to Madame Justice Bertha Wilson of the Supreme Court of Canada (1987-1988) before joining the University of Toronto. He has published numerous articles on British imperial history… Read more »
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The Heiress versus the Establishment: Mrs. Campbell’s Campaign for Legal Justice
by Constance Backhouse, Professor of Law, University of Ottawa, and Madam Justice Nancy Backhouse, Superior Court of Justice, Ontario. Published with University of British Columbia Press, 2004. In 1940 Elizabeth Campbell published a remarkable book Where Angels Fear to Tread telling the story of her determined battle against much of Ontario’s legal establishment as she endeavoured… Read more »
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The Rule of the Admirals: Law, Custom, and Naval Government in Newfoundland, 1699-1832
by Jerry Bannister, Professor of History, Dalhousie University. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 2003. The past two decades have witnessed a remarkable expansion in the study of the trans-Atlantic links of the British empire. This wave of historiography has passed by Newfoundland. Although most scholars acknowledge the role of the cod fishery in the… Read more »
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Legal History for Legal Professionals – THIS EVENT IS FULL
THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST IN THE OSGOODE SOCIETY. UNFORTUNATELY THE SESSION THIS EVENING IS FULL. WE WILL BE SENDING INFORMATION SOON IN REGARDS TO OUR NEXT EVENT. Join us for the Osgoode Society’s first evening session of legal history for legal professionals – and earn 20 minutes of CLE professionalism credit at the same time. Justice Robert… Read more »
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Women’s Fight for Legal Personhood: The Persons Case in Historical Perspective
The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History invites you to our inaugural student event — ‘Women’s Fight for Legal Personhood: The Persons Case in Historical Perspective’. Professor Jim Phillips will moderate a panel discussion between The Honourable Robert J. Sharpe, Professor Patricia McMahon, and Professor Sonia Lawrence examining the history and modern implications of the Persons… Read more »
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Membership
Established in 1979, the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History publishes books on Canadian legal history, creates and preserves an oral history archive, and puts on legal history lectures and similar events. Since 1981 the Society has published 125 books, including our 2024 books, on a remarkably diverse range of topics in Canadian legal history,… Read more »
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2024 Events
The Osgoode Society will be having a series of evening legal history lecture events which will be held over Zoom. Please register for each event to receive Zoom login information. THIS EVENT THIS EVENING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. WE WILL ADD THIS PRESENTATION TO OUR FALL 2024 SPEAKER SERIES AND WILL LET YOU KNOW WHEN A… Read more »
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Bad Judgment: The Case of Mr. Justice Leo A. Landreville
by William Kaplan. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 1996. Out of Print. Bad Judgment is a quintessential fall-from-grace story about a man from humble beginnings who rose to the top of the legal profession in Canada, only to be removed from the bench because of his bad judgment, the intolerant attitudes of the… Read more »
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The British Columbia Court of Appeal: The first hundred years
by Christopher Moore, Independent Historian. Published with the University of British Columbia Press, 2010. The Court of Appeal of British Columbia began sitting in 1910, and this volume thus coincides with the court’s centenary. Renowned historian Christopher Moore has produced a masterful account of the court, one that combines narrative, biographical and analytical histories of a… Read more »
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