Wednesday, January 18 at 5:30: John Borrows, Professor of Law at the University of Toronto, Discussed Indigenous law ”Wednesday, February 16, 2022 – Professor Harvey Amani Whitfield on “The Trials of Statia: An Enslaved Black Woman in Colonial Canada”. Wednesday October 20, 2021 – Professor Eric Adams, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta…. Read more »
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Past Recorded Events and Lectures
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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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Property on Trial: Canadian Cases in Context
edited by Eric Tucker, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, Bruze Ziff and James Muir, Professors, University of Alberta Law School. Published with Irwin Law, 2012. Despite the huge strides made by Canadian legal history in recent decades, we do not know as much as we should about the law of property, a crucial aspect of… Read more »
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John Borrows, Professor of Law at the University of Toronto, discusses Indigenous law.
Registration details coming soon. Please also see or complete list of 2023 winter/spring events.
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Wounded Feelings: Litigating Emotions in Quebec, 1870-1950
Eric Reiter’s 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/. The Osgoode Society is thrilled to announce that Wounded Feelings: Litigating Emotions in Quebec 1870-1950, by Professor Eric Reiter, has been awarded the Canadian Historical… Read more »
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Doodem and Council Fire: Anishinaabe Governance through Alliance
By Professor Heidi Bohaker. The Osgoode Society is thrilled to announce that Doodem and Council Fire: Anishinaabe Governance through Alliance, by Professor Heidi Bohaker, has been awarded the Canadian Historical Association’s Prize for Best Book in Political History Prize. Congratulations to Professor Bohaker. Doodem and Council Fire: Anishinaabe Governance Through Alliance also won the Ontario Historical Society’s Joseph… Read more »
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Heenan Blaikie: The Making and Unmaking of a Great Canadian Law Firm
Our members’ book for 2024 is Adam Dodek, Heenan Blaikie: The Making and Unmaking of a Great Canadian Law Firm, published by the University of British Columbia Press. Adam Dodek, L.S.M., is a Professor in the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law and a former Dean of the faculty. Heenan Blaikie chronicles the rise and fall of… Read more »
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A Deep Sense Of Wrong: The Treason, Trials and Transportation to New South Wales of Lower Canadian Rebels after the 1838 Rebellion
by Beverley Boissery, Independant Scholar. Published with Dundurn Press 1995. In 1839, 58 men left Montreal for the penal colony of New South Wales. They were unimportant men outside their own parishes, ordinary people caught up in political events. Civilians, they were tried by court martial.Convicted of treason, their properties forfeited to the crown, they and… Read more »
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Reckoning with Racism: Police, Judges, and the RDS Case
By Constance Backhouse – Professor at the University of Ottawa The RDS case is Canada’s most momentous race case. For the first time, the Supreme Court of Canada considered a complaint of judicial racial bias. Complacency about the racial neutrality of an all-white judiciary was thrown into question. Ironically, the judge in question was Corrine… Read more »
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The Notorious Georges: Crime and Community in British Columbia’s Northern Interior, 1909-25
Jon Swainger, The Notorious Georges: Crime and Community in British Columbia’s Northern Interior, 1909-25, published by the University of British Columbia Press. Jon Swainger is a Professor of History at the University of Northern British Columbia, and already an Osgoode Society author. The Notorious Georges: Crime and Community in British Columbia’s Northern Interior takes up the… Read more »