The Ontario government has awarded the 2021 David Walter Mundell Medal for excellence in legal writing to Philip Girard. Please join us in congratulating Professor Girard on this important achievement. https://news.ontario.ca/en/bulletin/1001881/excellence-in-legal-writing-celebrated-with-mundell-medal
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March 29, 2022 - Osgoode Society Author, Professor Philip Girard, awarded Mundell Medal
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Evening of Canadian Legal History
On November 19 Professor Heidi Bohaker will present our fourth evening of Canadian Legal History. Professor Bohaker will present the following : Canada by Treaty: Indigenous Legal Traditions and the Common Law of Property in the Agreements that Shaped a Country. A central fact of the Canadian historical experience is that the French and subsequently… 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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A History of Law in Canada Volume 1: Beginnings to 1866
By Philip Girard, Jim Phillips, and Blake Brown. Published by the University of Toronto Press. This book, the first of 2 volumes, presents the history of law in what is now Canada, from the first European contacts with northern North America in the very early sixteenth century to immediately before Confederation. Divided into four parts,… Read more »
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A Deep Sense Of Wrong: The Treason, Trials and Transportation to New South Wales of Lower Canadian Rebels after the 1838 Rebellion
by Beverley Boissery, Independant Scholar. Published with Dundurn Press 1995. In 1839, 58 men left Montreal for the penal colony of New South Wales. They were unimportant men outside their own parishes, ordinary people caught up in political events. Civilians, they were tried by court martial.Convicted of treason, their properties forfeited to the crown, they and… Read more »
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A Trying Question: The Jury in Nineteenth Century Canada
by R. Blake Brown, Professor of History, St Mary’s University. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 2009. The jury has long been a central institution of both the trial process in particular and of the ideology of the common law in general, a body exemplifying the distinctiveness of our legal tradition. In this first book-length… Read more »
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April 23, 2025 - In Memoriam – Prof. Shelley Gavigan
One of our authors, Professor Emerita Shelley Gavigan of Osgoode Hall Law School, passed away on Sunday, April 20th. Shelley made immense contributions to Osgoode Hall Law School, particularly as Director of the Parkdale Clinic and as the hand-picked Associate Dean to the late Peter Hogg when he served as Dean. A long-time member and… Read more »
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John Tupper Saywell
The late Professor John Tupper (Jack) Saywell was one of Canada’s most distinguished political historians. He began teaching at the University of Toronto in 1954, and was Editor of the Canadian Historical Review (1957 – 1963), and of the Canadian Annual Review (1960 – 1979). He was the author of The Office of Lieutenant-Governor: A… Read more »
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Richard W. Pound
Richard Pound is a partner in the Montréal office of Stikeman Elliott and member of the firm’s Tax Group. His main areas of practice include tax litigation and negotiations with tax authorities on behalf of clients, in addition to general tax advisory work and commercial arbitration. He is a member of the Quebec and Ontario… Read more »
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Patricia McMahon
Patricia McMahon is the Director and lead interviewer of the Osgoode Society’s Oral History Program. She is a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, and a historian, living in Toronto. Dr. McMahon holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Toronto and a J.S.D. from Yale Law School. Her Ph.D. dissertation examined the influence… Read more »
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