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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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  • 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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  • Membership

    Established in 1979, the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History publishes books on Canadian legal history, creates and preserves an oral history archive, and puts on legal history lectures and similar events. Since 1981 the Society has published 129 books, including our 2025 books, on a remarkably diverse range of topics in Canadian legal history,… Read more »

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  • October 26, 2021 - 2020-21 OHS Joseph Brant Award Winner: Heidi Bohaker, Doodem and Council Fire

    Please join us in congratulating Heidi Bohaker on winning the 2020-21 Joseph Brant Award for her book, Doodem and Council Fire: Anishinaabe Governance Through Alliance, published by University of Toronto Press (2020). Doodem and Council Fire deals with the world of the Anishinaabe people and the importance of doodem to Anishinaabe identity. Published for the Osgoode Society for… Read more »

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  • May 17, 2021 - Philip Girard interviewed on Podcast

    In this podcast, Greg Marchildon interviews Osgoode Society Associate Editor Philip Girard regarding A History of Law in Canada, Volume 1: Beginnings to 1866, published by the University of Toronto Press in 2018, of which he is the co-author along with Jim Phillips and Blake Brown. Girard explains the ways in which Canadian legal culture… Read more »

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  • April 16, 2021 - Osgoode Society Book Shortlisted for Canadian Historical Association Prize

    Our 2020 title Doodem and Council Fire: Anishinaabe Governance through Alliance, by Professor Heidi Bohaker, has been shortlisted for The Canadian Historical Association Prize. The prize is given to the non-fiction work of Canadian history judged to have made the most significant contribution to an understanding of the Canadian past. For more details visit –… Read more »

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  • February 17, 2021 - Osgoode Society Director, Linda Silver Dranoff, Appointed to the Order of Ontario

    Please join us in congratulating Linda Silver Dranoff on being appointed to the Order of Ontario for 2019. For the complete list of appointees, and more information on this honour, please visit https://news.ontario.ca/en/backgrounder/59858/the-2019-appointees-to-the-order-of-ontario. Linda Silver Dranoff — Toronto A lawyer, writer and social justice activist, Linda Silver Dranoff has devoted her career to transforming family law,… Read more »

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  • An Evening of Canadian Legal History with Professor Heidi Bohaker

    Professor Heidi Bohaker, of the University of Toronto, will discuss her book Doodem and Council Fire: Anishinaabe Governance Through Alliance. This study of Anishinaabe law before the Europeans is the Osgoode Society’s members’ selection for 2020. On registration you will be sent the link for the event.

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  • Annual Meeting of Members and Awards Ceremoney

    THE OSGOODE SOCIETY FOR CANADIAN LEGAL HISTORY NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF MEMBERS & AWARDS CEREMONY On Wednesday, June 19th, 2019, the Society will hold its Annual Meeting in the Museum Room, 2nd Floor, Osgoode Hall, 130 Queen Street West, Toronto, beginning at 5.30 o’clock in the afternoon. AGENDA  Approval of the Minutes from the… Read more »

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  • The Annual Meeting of Congress 2017

    The Annual Meeting of Congress 2017, which brings together Canada’s academic associations, takes place this year at Ryerson University in Toronto, May 27 to June 2. This includes the Canadian Historical Association, May 29 to 31. For the full programme go to congress2017.ca.