The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History book series was the winner of the 2015 Hugh Lawford Award for Excellence in Legal Publishing awarded by the Canadian Association of Law Libraries at their annual meeting in Moncton. Congratulations to President/founder R. Roy McMurtry, editor in chief Jim Phillips, associate editor Philip Girard, and our authors past, present and… Read more »
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Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume VIII: In Honour of R.C.B. Risk
edited by G. Blaine Baker & Jim Phillips. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 1999. Collections of essays are usually organised around a particular theme. This book, which represents Canadian legal historians’ tribute to Professor Dick Risk, is, at first glance, something of an exception to that practice. The essays here cover subjects which range… Read more »
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Truth and Privilege: Libel Law in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, 1820-1840
By Professor Lyndsay Campbell of the University of Calgary. Published by Cambridge University Press, and a joint publication in the Osgoode Society Series and the American Society for Legal History’ Studies in Legal History Series. Truth and Privilege is a comparative study of the interplay among legal and constitutional traditions, political and religious controversy, publishing practices,… Read more »
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May 6, 2015 - Osgoode Society awarded 2015 Hugh Lawford Prize for Excellence in Legal Publishing
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Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume XI: Quebec and the Canadas
edited by G. Blaine Baker, Emeritus Professor of Law, McGill University, and Donald Fyson, Professor of History, Laval University. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 2013. This latest volume in the Essays in the History of Canadian Law series, with which we launched our publishing programme in 1981, is the first devoted to central… Read more »
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Publishing Programme
The Publishing Programme We publish books that conform to high standards of scholarship and are also interesting to our many members in the legal profession and to the general public. We strive to achieve readability, interest and good scholarship. Most of our books are published with the University of Toronto Press, although we also publish… Read more »
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Conferences
In this section we include information about forthcoming legal history conferences, seminars, lectures etc, in Canada and around the world. Call for Papers – Eastern Townships & Legal History- DEADLINE MAY 15, 2025 This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Supreme Court of Canada, which will honor both Sherbrooke and Bishop’s Universities with an… Read more »
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Philip Girard
Philip Girard is a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. From 1984 until 2013 he was a Professor of Law, History and Canadian Studies, and University Research Professor at Dalhousie University. He is also Associate Editor of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. He was law clerk to Mr. Justice W.Z. Estey… 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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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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Benjamin Berger
Benjamin Berger is Associate Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School and a member of the Graduate Faculty in the Socio-Legal Studies Program at York University. He was previously at the University of Victoria, where he was an associate professor in the Faculty of Law and held a cross appointment in the Department of… Read more »




