Links Below you will find links to a wide variety of other legal history related websites. They include legal history societies, websites dealing with particular aspects of legal history, and digitised collections of sources. Legal History Societies American Society for Legal History Francis Forbes Society (Australia) S.S. Daisy – Newfoundland Legal History The Stair Society… Read more »
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Judy Fudge
Judy Fudge is Professor of Law at the University of Kent, U.K. She was previously Landsdowne Chair in Law at the University of Victoria Faculty of Law. She joined the University of Victoria in 2007 from Osgoode Hall Law School where she began her career. She has published extensively in employment and labour law in… Read more »
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Charlotte Gray
Charlotte Gray is one of Canada’s best-known writers, and author of ten acclaimed books of literary non-fiction. Born in Sheffield, England, and educated at Oxford University and the London School of Economics, she began her writing career in England as a magazine editor and newspaper columnist. After coming to Canada in 1979, she worked as… Read more »
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Sidney L. Harring
Dr. Sidney Harring is Professor Emeritus at the City University of New York School of Law. Besides teaching undergraduate sociology and law, he has done extensive research and scholarship on juries, police, American Indians, and the social history of American law. These wide-ranging interests have taken him around the world; he has been a visiting… Read more »
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John McLaren
John McLaren is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Victoria Law School and one of Canada’s foremost legal historians. A prolific author, scholar, and educator, McLaren’s research focusses mostly on comparative colonial law, social justice, cultural diversity, religion, and public morality in the context of legal history. His interest is particularly in contested interpretations… Read more »
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David Murray
David Murray is Professor Emeritus with the University of Guelph. Before his retirement, Professor Murray was, from 1967, a member of the university’s Faculty of History. Professor Murray has also been a Resident Historian at the Department of External Affairs (1971-1972), and Dean of the College of Arts at the University of Guelph (1980-1992). His… Read more »
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Harry W. Arthurs
BA, LLB (TORONTO) LLM (HARVARD) LL.D. (hon) SHERBROOKE, BROCK, LAW SOCIETY OF ONTARIO, MCGILL, MONTREAL, TORONTO, YORK, SIMON FRASER, D.C.L. (hon) WINDSOR, D. LITT. (hon) LETHBRIDGE, FRSC, FBA Harry Arthurs OC OO is University Professor Emeritus and President Emeritus of York University. He was the Canada Council’s first Killam Laureate in the Social Sciences (2002)… Read more »
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September 4, 2023 - In Memoriam
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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Indigenous Rights Litigator Jean Teillet
Jean Teillet will speak about her career in a question and answer session, which will also involve a discussion of the importance to her work of legal history. Jean has been litigator in the areas of Indigenous rights, including Métis rights, and in reproductive health law. Jean holds LL.B. and LL.M. degrees from the University… Read more »
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Message from the Editor in Chief
A Message from the Editor in Chief 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. We have been very successful at both of these. As of 2023 we have published exactly… Read more »