Prof. Jim Phillips has been elected an honorary fellow of the American Society for Legal History, the highest honour the Society bestows. Congratulations to our Editor-in-Chief! https://www.law.utoronto.ca/news/jim-phillips-elected-honorary-fellow-american-society-legal-history
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October 29, 2024 - Editor-in-Chief Jim Phillips Elected Honorary Fellow of the American Society for Legal History
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Jim Reynolds
Wednesday, October 16: Jim Reynolds, Vancouver Lawyer. Jim Reynolds will talk about aboriginal law and Canadian history, subjects which were at the centre of a more than 40-year legal practice representing First Nations, especially the Musqueam of Vancouver. He has written a number of books, including Aboriginal Peoples and the Law: A Critical Introduction (Vancouver: UBC Press/Purich, 2018)… Read more »
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January 15, 2024 - In Memoriam – Fred Kaufman
Fred Kaufman, a retired Judge of the Quebec Court of Appeal, passed away in early January. Fred’s remarkable life, from fleeing Austria as a refugee from the Nazis to time in an interment camp in New Brunswick as an ‘enemy alien’ , to law school, law practice and the Court of Appeal is chronicled in… Read more »
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November 13, 2023 - Osgoode Society Oral History Director Featured in Globe and Mail
The Osgoode Society’s Oral History Director, Professor Patricia McMahon, was featured in a Globe and Mail article on Saturday November 11th about the problems she and other historians are having with access to information requests to Library and Archives Canada. The article, and accompanying podcast, are available here- https://www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the-decibel/article-canadas-broken-information-laws-keep-history-in-the-dark/
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Colin Campbell
Colin Campbell began his teaching career at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick as assistant professor of political science before taking his law degree at Western. Following his call to the bar, he practised as a tax partner in the Toronto firm Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP. His practice included tax planning for… Read more »
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November 8, 2021 - Osgoode Society 2019 Book Awarded Prize
Eric Reiter’s 2019 Osgoode Society book, titled Wounded Feelings: Litigating Emotions in Quebec, has been named as a co-winner of the monograph prize from the Fondation du Barreau du Québec. The official notice can be found here: https://www.fondationdubarreau.qc.ca/decouvrez-les-laureats-du-concours-juridique-2021-et-les-regles-de-ledition-2022/. This book was previously awarded the Canadian Historical Association’s prize for best book in Canadian history. Please join us in congratulating… 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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The Law Makers: Judicial Power and the Shaping of Canadian Federalism
by John T. Saywell, Emeritus Professor of History, York University. Published with University of Toronto Press, 2002. For those who believe that the history of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council’s decisions on the Canadian constitution is an oft-told story, this book will be a revelation indeed. One of Canada’s outstanding scholars, Professor Saywell draws… 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 »
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The Federal Court of Appeal and the Federal Court: 50 Years of History
Edited by Professors Martine Valois (University of Montreal), Ian Greene (York University), Craig Forcese (University of Ottawa), and Peter McCormick (University of Lethbridge). Published by Irwin Law. The book marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Federal Court of Canada in 1971 and assesses the contributions of the Federal Court and the Federal Court… Read more »
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