We will be resuming our evening legal history talks in the fall. They will be conducted over Zoom and there will be a question and comment period after each talk. Jim Walker, Professor of History, Waterloo University: ‘Legacies: The Impact of Black Activism on the History of Rights in Canada.’
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The Federal Court of Canada: A History, 1875-1992
by Ian Bushnell. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 1997. The Federal Court of Canada, existing from 1875 to 1971 under the name Exchequer Court of Canada, has occupied a special place in the court structure of Canada. Established principally to adjudicate legal disputes in which the Canadian government was involved, it has, since its… 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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“Honorary Protestants”: The Jewish School Question in Montreal, 1867-1997
By David Fraser, Professor of Law, University of Nottingham, published by the University of Toronto Press. Section 93 of the Constitution Act 1867 guaranteed certain educational rights to Catholics and Protestants in Quebec, but not to anybody else. This study of the challenges, legal and otherwise, encountered by Jewish parents in educating their children in… Read more »
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Just Lawyers: Seven Portraits
by David Ricardo Williams. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 1995. In 1924 Mackenzie King, on bended knee, pleaded with lawyer, Eugene Lafleur to accept the chief justiceship of Canada, but Lafleur refused. Another lawyer, Gordon Henderson was offered an appointment to the Ontario Court of Appeal but rejected it. Lafleur, Henderson, Frank Covert, Aimé… Read more »
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Mr. Attorney: The Attorney General for Ontario in Court, Cabinet and Legislature, 1791-1899
by Paul Romney. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 1986. Mr. Attorney is a major exercise in revisionist historiography. Based on extensive research in often obscure sources, it offers an account of the office of Attorney General which reinterprets several key themes of nineteenth-century constitutional and political history. Paul Romney argues that grievances involving the… Read more »
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An Evening of Canadian Legal History – Prof. Jim Walker, “Legacies: The Impact of Black Activism on the History of Rights in Canada”
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An Evening of Canadian Legal History – Professor Nina Reid-Maroney, ‘Vigilance: Black Activism and Chatham’s Demarest Rescue, 1858.’
We will be resuming our evening legal history talks in the fall. They will be conducted over Zoom and there will be a question and comment period after each talk. Nina Reid-Maroney, Professor of History, Western University, titled ‘Vigilance: Black Activism and Chatham’s Demarest Rescue, 1858.’
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Canadian State Trials Volume II: Rebellion and Invasion in the Canadas, 1837-1839
edited by F. Murray Greenwood, Emeritus Professor of History, University of British Columbia and Barry Wright, Professor, Department of Law, Carleton University. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 2002. This second volume of the Canadian State Trials series focuses on the largest state security crisis in 19th century Canada: the rebellions of 1837-1838 and associated… Read more »
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Osgoode Society Legal History Workshop
Osgoode Society Legal History Workshop will resume in September 2016. A schedule will be posted on this website when it is finalized.
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Lecture Event :”Writing the Histories of Law in Canada: The Interaction of Three Legal Systems.”
On May 28th, Professors Jim Phillips and Philip Girard will present the second lecture in our series titled “Histories of Law in Canada: The Interaction of Three Legal Systems.” Join us at 5:30 p.m. in the Museum Room at Osgoode Hall, 130 Queen Street West. This event is free provided you are an Osgoode Society Member –… Read more »
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