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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Memoirs and Reflections
by The Hon. R. Roy McMurtry, published with the University of Toronto Press. In addition to his most important accomplishment, the founding of the Osgoode Society, Roy McMurtry recounts and reflects on his years as a criminal defence lawyer, attorney-general of Ontario, High Commissioner to the UK, and Chief Justice of Ontario. Along the way… Read more »
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Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume VII: Canadian Law Firms in Historical Perspective
Edited by Carol Wilton. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 1996. This seventh volume in our Essays series, is a pioneering study of an important but neglected Canadian institution. It offers numerous cases studies of Canadian law firms as well as more general analyses. These essays highlight significant periods in the history of a variety… Read more »
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October 26, 2021 - 2020-21 OHS Joseph Brant Award Winner: Heidi Bohaker, Doodem and Council Fire
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J. Patrick Boyer
J. Patrick Boyer is the president of Blue Butterfly Books, an independent Canadian fiction and non-fiction publisher. He has written numerous books on law and public policy, and has also served on the national council of The Writers’ Union of Canada. Mr. Boyer has worked as an adjunct professor in the Department of Political Science… Read more »
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Martin Friedland
Martin Friedland, C.C., Q.C., is University Professor and James M. Tory Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. He was called to the Ontario Bar in 1960 and received the Treasurer’s Medal. Professor Friedland has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including the Canadian Association of Law Teachers… Read more »
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John Tupper Saywell
The late Professor John Tupper (Jack) Saywell was one of Canada’s most distinguished political historians. He began teaching at the University of Toronto in 1954, and was Editor of the Canadian Historical Review (1957 – 1963), and of the Canadian Annual Review (1960 – 1979). He was the author of The Office of Lieutenant-Governor: A… 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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Robert J. Sharpe
Robert Sharpe was a judge of the Ontario Court of Appeal from 1999 to 2020. He was called to the bar in 1974 and practiced with MacKinnon McTaggart (later McTaggart Potts) in the area of civil litigation. He was a professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law from 1976 to 1988 where he… Read more »
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Charlotte Gray
Charlotte Gray is one of Canada’s best-known writers, and author of ten acclaimed books of literary non-fiction. Born in Sheffield, England, and educated at Oxford University and the London School of Economics, she began her writing career in England as a magazine editor and newspaper columnist. After coming to Canada in 1979, she worked as… Read more »
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June 22, 2020 - The Osgoode Society Announces Awards for 2020
OSGOODE SOCIETY AWARDS. The Osgoode Society is very pleased to announce the 2020 winners of two of its awards. Peter Oliver Prize. Named for the Society’s first and long-serving Editor-in-Chief, the Peter Oliver Prize is given for published work in Canadian legal history by a student. The 2020 winner is Jacqueline Briggs, a Ph.D. student… Read more »