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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Anthony Adamson (1906 – 2002)
Anthony Patrick Cawthra Adamson was a leading expert in Ontario’s architectural heritage. He began his career as an architect, but proceeded to work as a professor at the University of Toronto (1955-1965), a town planner and a municipal reeve for the Township of Toronto (now Mississauga). He was the chief designer of Upper Canada Village… Read more »
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David Vanek
David Vanek served as a Provincial Court judge from 1968 until 1989 when he retired. He was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1939, just as World War II was breaking out in Europe. During the war Vanek served in the Canadian Intelligence Corps and Field Security in England from 1943 to 1945. Upon… Read more »
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Brian Young
Brian Young is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University. He taught history at McGill from 1975 until his retirement in 2009. His research interests centre on the social and cultural experience of the nineteenth-century Quebec elite. He is also a founding member of the Montreal History Group, a… Read more »
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The Last Day, the Last Hour: The Currie Libel Trial
by Robert J. Sharpe, Justice of the Ontario Court of Appeal. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 2009 (first edition published by Carswells, 1988). The Osgoode Society first published Robert Sharpe’s study of the libel action launched by Sir Arthur Currie in 1988, sixty years after the case itself had captured the attention of the… Read more »
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Dewigged, Bothered and Bewildered: British Colonial Judges on Trial
by John McLaren, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Victoria. Published with University of Toronto Press, 2011. Canada was but one part of a large and complex empire, and this book is a reminder of that fact and a fascinating exploration of one important aspect of the legal history of the empire – the role of… Read more »
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Provincial Justice: Upper Canadian Legal Portraits
edited by Dr. Robert Fraser. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 1992. This is an important reference guide and a highly entertaining book. In association with the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, which has published twelve monumental volumes dealing with Canadian lives from the year 1000 to 1900, we have selected some sixty biographies of Upper… Read more »
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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 »