The Osgoode Society has a Student Ambassador Programme at each of the Toronto law schools. Student Ambassadors organize periodic legal history events to promote the Society and subject to interested colleagues. The events also give the students the opportunity to connect with the lawyers and judges who comprise the Society’s directors. In October 2023 the… Read more »
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Student Ambassador Programme
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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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Kent Roach
Kent Roach is a Professor of Law, Criminology, and Political Science at the University of Toronto, and the Prichard-Wilson Chair of Law and Public Policy. He was law clerk to Madame Justice Bertha Wilson of the Supreme Court of Canada (1988-1989) before joining the University of Toronto. He has published numerous articles on the current… Read more »
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David Fraser
David Fraser is Professor of Law and Social Theory at the University of Nottingham. His teaching interests include legal theory and legal history. He has been a Visitor at the University of British Columbia, the University of Texas, Austin, the European University Institute, the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Museum,… Read more »
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Barry Wright
Barry Wright is a professor in the Department of Law at Carleton University. His teaching interests are the history of criminal law and its administration, comparative colonial legal history, constitutional law and legal, social and political theory. Since joining Carleton in 1986, he has been a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies… Read more »
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June 22, 2020 - The Osgoode Society Announces Awards for 2020
OSGOODE SOCIETY AWARDS. The Osgoode Society is very pleased to announce the 2020 winners of two of its awards. Peter Oliver Prize. Named for the Society’s first and long-serving Editor-in-Chief, the Peter Oliver Prize is given for published work in Canadian legal history by a student. The 2020 winner is Jacqueline Briggs, a Ph.D. student… 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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August 12, 2022 - Osgoode Society Awards for 2022
June, 2022 – OSGOODE SOCIETY AWARDS. The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History is very pleased announce the winners of its awards for 2022. Peter Oliver Prize. Named for the Society’s first and long-serving Editor-in-Chief, the Peter Oliver Prize is given for published work in Canadian legal history by a student. The 2022 winner is… Read more »
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The Honourable R. Roy McMurtry
R. Roy McMurtry,1932-2024, was the former chief justice of Ontario (1996-2007) and Canadian high commissioner to the United Kingdom (1985-1988). He is counsel at Gowlings. He was first elected to the Ontario Legislature in 1975 after practicing as a trial lawyer for 17 years, and served as attorney-general under Premier William Davis. Mr. McMurtry founded… Read more »
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John J. Robinette, Peerless Mentor: An Appreciation
by George D. Finlayson, formerly of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. Published with Dundurn Press, 2003. John Robinette is generally acknowledged to have been the foremost counsel of his era and was, perhaps, Canada’s greatest advocate of all time. Comfortable before any court or tribunal at any level and regardless of issue, he combined… Read more »
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