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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Chief Justice W.R. Jackett: By the Law of the Land
by Richard W. Pound. Published with McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1999. When Richard Pound told us he was working on a biography of Wilbur Jackett, former Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Canada, and asked us to consider publication, we were pleased and somewhat sceptical. We had recently published Ian Bushnell’s history of the Federal Court… Read more »
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Casual Slaughters and Accidental Judgments: Canadian War Crimes Prosecutions, 1944-48
by Patrick Brode, Legal Counsel, City of Windsor. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 1997. Casual Slaughters and Accidental Judgments: Canadian War Crimes Prosecutions, 1944-1948 is Patrick Brode’s third publication with The Ogoode Society and furthers his already considerable reputation for combining sound scholarship with readability. The prosecution after the Second World War of German… Read more »
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Conferences
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CONFERENCES
Listing as of April 3, 2020 Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, London, Ontario, June 1 – 3, has been cancelled American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 11-14, 2020 . Consult the ASLH website – aslh.net. 39th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society, Auckland, 9th-12th December 2020 Call for Papers-“One Empire, Many Colonies,… Read more »
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An Evening of Canadian Legal History
Join us for an evening of new insights into Canadian Legal History. This evening will feature the current holders of the Society’s R. Roy McMurtry Fellowships in Canadian Legal History. Doctoral students Filippo Spossini (University of Toronto) and Anna Jarvis (York University) will discuss their research. Come and hear about civil commitment for insanity in… Read more »
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June 6, 2019 - A History of Law in Canada Volume 1: Beginnings to 1866 wins Honourable Mention for the W. Wesley Pue book prize
A History of Law in Canada, Volume One is a monumental and masterful work. It fills a gap in Canadian scholarship by providing a comprehensive, well-written and informative account of the history of law in Canada. Its 900 pages of text and footnotes reflect an astonishing range of knowledge. It breaks new ground in its… Read more »
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The Osgoode Society-In The News
Osgoode Society book named Number 3 on Hill Times best 100 books of 2017’ https://www.hilltimes.com/2017/12/18/hill-times-list-100-best-books-2017/128829 Recent article and review of Claire L’Heureux -Dube: A Life by Constance Backhouse https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-retired-supreme-court-justice-claire-lheureux-dubes-biography/
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Annual General Meeting
Join us for the Osgoode Society’s Annual General Meeting on June 14, 2018 from 5:30 to 7:30 in the Museum Room at Osgoode Hall, 130 Queen Street West. Jim Phillips and Philip Girard will present on their new book, A History of Law in Canada Volume I: Beginnings to 1866, which is the member’s selection for… Read more »
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Evening of Canadian Legal History – Professors Lori Chambers and Joan Sangster
On October 4th Professors Lori Chambers and Joan Sangster will discuss our members’ book for 2023, of which they are the editors: Essays in the History of Canadian Law Volume XII: New Perspectives on Gender and the Law.
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