In this podcast, Greg Marchildon interviews Osgoode Society Associate Editor Philip Girard regarding A History of Law in Canada, Volume 1: Beginnings to 1866, published by the University of Toronto Press in 2018, of which he is the co-author along with Jim Phillips and Blake Brown. Girard explains the ways in which Canadian legal culture… Read more »
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Aggressive in Pursuit: The Life of Justice Emmett Hall
by Frederick Vaughan, formerly of the Political Science Department, University of Guelph. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 2004. In 1963 Prime Minister John Diefenbaker elevated Chief Justice Hall of Saskatchewan to the Supreme Court of Canada. This judicial biography focuses on Hall’s career as defence lawyer, and civil litigator, his position as a civil… Read more »
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May 17, 2021 - Philip Girard interviewed on Podcast
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June 15, 2021 - Osgoode Society Book Awarded Best Book in Political History
The Osgoode Society is thrilled to announce that Doodem and Council Fire: Anishinaabe Governance through Alliance, by Professor Heidi Bohaker, has been awarded the Canadian Historical Association’s Prize for Best Book in Political History Prize. Congratulations to Professor Bohaker.
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R. Blake Brown
R. Blake Brown is a Professor in the Department of History at Saint Mary’s University, and an Adjunct Professor at the Schulich School of Law. Professor Brown researches and teaches in the areas of modern Canadian history, legal history and the history of Atlantic Canada. Professor Brown has been the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair and… Read more »
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J. Barry Cahill
Barry Cahill is an independent historian focusing on Atlantic Canada. He has written numerous historical pieces on the region’s legal history, including the legal profession, the judiciary, and blacks and the. He has also written extensively on religious history, with a focus on Canadian Presbyterianism. He is also a former editor of the Nova Scotia… Read more »
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Robert Fraser
Robert Fraser is the Executive Director of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography at the University of Toronto and Academic Coordinator, History, Academic Bridging Program, University of Toronto. Dr. Fraser is also the Managing Editor of the Dictionary of Hamilton Biography, chair of the Historical Committee of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlands of Canada and president… Read more »
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Greg Marquis
Dr. Marquis is a professor at the Department of History and Politics at the University of New Brunswick. He is prolific scholar, interested in the area of Canadian and criminal justice history, social history of crime, history of policing, history of alcohol control, and other areas of history of law enforcement. Dr. Marquis is on… Read more »
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James Snell
James Snell is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at University of Guelph, where he has worked since 1968. His research interests include the history of divorce and marriage breakdown in Canada, Canadian political history and history of state policies regarding various social problems. He can be reached at jsnell@uoguelph.ca.
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Barrington Walker
Barrington Walker is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Queen’s University. His primary research interests are Black Canadian History, the histories of “race” and immigration. The idea for his book, Race on Trial, was born following the suspicion that hung over black men his age following a robbery in Toronto when he was… Read more »
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Bruce Ziff
Bruce Ziff is a professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta. His main research interest is in the area of property law, and he is the author of the leading Canadian text, Principles of Property Law, now in its fifth edition. In 1988 he received the A.C. Rutherford Award for Excellence… Read more »