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  • October 18, 2022 - In Memoriam – David Flaherty

    Professor Emeritus David Flaherty passed away on October 11, 2022, in Victoria. In the 1970s and 1980s David was a Professor of Law and History at what was then the University of Western Ontario. Although principally an Americanist, he was an ideal choice to organize and edit the Osgoode Society’s first major forays into serious… Read more »

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  • The Politics of Codification: The Lower Canadian Civil Code of 1866

    by Brian Young, Professor Emeritus, Department of History and Classical Studies, McGill University. Published with McGill Queen’s University Press, 1994. Brian Young interprets codification as part of a larger process that included the collapse of the Lower Canadian rebellions, the decline of seigneurialism, the expansion of bourgeois democracy in central Canada, professionalization of the bar, and… Read more »

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  • January 26, 2023 - Osgoode Society Authors on The Champlain Society Podcast

    In this podcast episode, Nicole O’Byrne speaks to Barry Wright about his book Canadian State Trials, Volume V: World War, Cold War, and Challenges to Sovereignty, 1939–1990, co-edited with Susan Binnie and Eric Tucker. The book was published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by the University of Toronto Press in 2022. https://champlainsociety.utpjournals.press/podcast/wty/national-security-measures-political-trials-canadian-state-trials-1939-1990-with-barry-wright… Read more »

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  • ‘Terror to Evil-Doers’: Prisons and Punishments in Nineteenth-Century Ontario

    by Peter Oliver, Professor of History, York University. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 1998. We are delighted that Peter Oliver has agreed to include his seminal work on prisons and punishments in nineteenth century Ontario in the Osgoode Society’s Publications Series. Professor Oliver’s book draws on a huge range of previously unexplored primary sources… Read more »

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  • June 1, 2018 - The Osgoode Society Awards honour emerging and established scholars, promote Canadian legal history

    Toronto — The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History is honouring four scholars at a special ceremony on June 14, in recognition of the recent contributions they have made to furthering Canadians’ understanding of the country’s legal history. At the Osgoode Society’s Annual Meeting, the following three awards will be presented: the R. Roy McMurtry… Read more »

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  • Terms and Conditions

    OVERVIEW This website is operated by the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. Throughout the site, the terms “we”, “us” and “our” refer to the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. The Osgoode Society offers this website, including all information, tools and services available from this site to you, the user, conditioned upon your acceptance… Read more »

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  • J. Patrick Boyer

    J. Patrick Boyer is the president of Blue Butterfly Books, an independent Canadian fiction and non-fiction publisher. He has written numerous books on law and public policy, and has also served on the national council of The Writers’ Union of Canada. Mr. Boyer has worked as an adjunct professor in the Department of Political Science… Read more »

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  • Christopher English

    Dr. English was a Professor in the Department of History at Memorial University in Newfoundland, with a focus on legal history. In 1997 he created and served as Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Minor Program in Law and Society at Memorial University. He is now an Honorary Research Professor in the Department of History at Memorial…. Read more »

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  • David H. Flaherty

    Between 1965 and 1999 David Flaherty taught at Princeton University, the University of Virginia, and, principally, the University of Western Ontario where he taught law and history. While at the University of Western Ontario (1972-1999), he was the first director of the Centre for American Studies. He is now a Professor Emeritus. David Flaherty has… 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 »