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  • March 21, 2025 - Editor -in-Chief JimPhillips awarded the Law Society Medal for 2025

    On March 20, 2025, the Law Society of Ontario announced that 6 people have been awarded the Law Society Medal for 2025. They include  Osgoode Society Editor-in-Chief Jim Phillips. The citation reads:   Professor Jim Phillips: is a member of the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, cross-appointed to the Department of History, and a… Read more »

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  • Student Ambassador Programme

    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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  • Books

    The Publishing Programme Osgoode Society Books 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… Read more »

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  • What is Oral History?

    Oral History What is Oral History? Historians have traditionally relied on documents of various kinds while conducting their research. But documents are often insufficient for fully reconstructing the past, and this is as true of legal history as of any other field of history. Court and other legal records from the past have been lost,… 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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  • Message from the Editor in Chief

    A Message from the Editor in Chief The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History was established in 1979 to promote the publication of work on the history of Canadian law, and to create and preserve an oral history archive. We have been very successful at both of these. As of 2024 we have published exactly… 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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  • Osgoode Society Legal History Workshop

    Osgoode Society Legal History Workshops 2011-2024 OSGOODE SOCIETY LEGAL HISTORY WORKSHOPS IN FALL 2024 AND WINTER 2025: All sessions start at 6.30 EST. Email j.phillips@utoronto.ca for the link. 2024 Fall Term Schedule Wednesday September 11 – Nina Patti and Jim Phillips, University of Toronto: ‘The 1930 Divorce Act: The Demise of Parliamentary Divorce for Ontario.’… Read more »

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  • Work on Trial: Canadian Labour Law Struggles

    edited by Judy Fudge, Lansdowne Professor of Law, University of Victoria, and Eric Tucker, Professor of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School. Published with Irwin Law, 2010. The world of work, so important to individuals’ economic well-being and to their sense of self, has been fundamentally shaped by law, both collective bargaining law and individual employment law…. Read more »

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  • White Man’s Law: Native People in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Jurisprudence

    by Sidney Harring.  Published with the University of Toronto Press, 1998. In recent years numerous important books have appeared which deal with the history of aboriginal populations in early Canada. Although these studies add enormously to our understanding of the role played by native peoples in the British North American and Canadian communities, there has… Read more »