On 27 September, 2017, the Law Society of Upper Canada will mark Canada’s 150th birthday with an event highlighting the role of lawyers in making the constitution and in the development of the inclusive society we are committed to building. The afternoon event will go from 3 – 6 p.m. and be held at Osgoode… Read more »
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Bradley Miller
Bradley Miller, BA (Toronto), MA (Dalhousie), PhD (Toronto) Bradley Miller is Associate Professor of History at the University of British Columbia, where he holds the Keenleyside Chair in Canada and the World. He teaches criminal justice history, constitutional and international legal history, and the history of Canada in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His research… Read more »
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Suzanne Chiodo
Suzanne Chiodo is a doctoral candidate in Law at Oriel College, Oxford University. She also completed her undergraduate degree in Modern History at Oxford. Before beginning her doctorate in October 2017, Suzanne was a class actions lawyer at Rochon Genova LLP in Toronto. She completed her LLM in December 2016, supported by funding from the… Read more »
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Law Society of Upper Canada Mark’s Canada’s 150th Birthday
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A. B. (Brian) McKillop
Alexander Brian McKillop is a Chancellor’s Professor at Carleton University and the former Chair of the Department of History (2005-2009). His research interests are focussed on intellectual and cultural history, including religion, higher education, elite and popular culture, cultural production and expression, and historiography, as well as the biography of Pierre Berton. Professor McKillop has… Read more »
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Robert J. Sharpe
Robert Sharpe was a judge of the Ontario Court of Appeal from 1999 to 2020. He was called to the bar in 1974 and practiced with MacKinnon McTaggart (later McTaggart Potts) in the area of civil litigation. He was a professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law from 1976 to 1988 where he… Read more »
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Awards
Over the years our books have won many prestigious awards. Most recently, one of out 2022 members’ books, Jim Phillips, Philip Girard and R. Blake Brown, A History of Law in Canada Volume II: Law for the New Dominion, 1867-1914, was awarded the Canadian Law and Society Association’s Prize for the best book published in 2022…. Read more »
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Book Launch Reception
2023 Book Launch Reception Nov 7, 2023 – 5:00 pm at Osgoode Hall Law School – Downtown Campus 1 Dundas Street West (Yonge and Dundas), 26th Floor THE DIRECTORS OF THE OSGOODE SOCIETY and University of Toronto Press , University of British Columbia Press and Irwin Law REQUEST THE PLEASURE OF YOUR COMPANY AT A… Read more »
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Podcast
Podcast: Time Immemorial The Osgoode Society is pleased to announce that we are sponsoring Time Immemorial, a series of podcasts which explore episodes of Canadian legal history. The podcasts are researched and written by two of our members, Preston Lim and Gregory Ringkamp. For a list of those currently available see below. We will place all episodes of Time… Read more »
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Wayne Sumner
Wayne Sumner is University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto. His professional teaching and research have focused on ethical theory, applied ethics (especially bioethics), political philosophy, and philosophy of law. He is the author of six books including The Hateful and the Obscene: Studies in the Limits of Free Expression (2004)… 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 »