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  • Oral History Program

    The Osgoode Society’s Oral History Program is the world’s largest oral history program dedicated to legal history. Since 1979, the Society has conducted more than 715 interviews and deposited over 100,000 pages of transcripts in the Archives of Ontario. Interview subjects include lawyers, judges, politicians, and members of the police services. Interview documentation consists of… Read more »

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  • Fred Kaufman

    B.Sc. (Bishop’s University), B.A. (Université de Montréal, Thomas Moore Institute), B.C.L. (McGill), M.B.A. (Concordia University), LL.D. (hon. University of New Brunswick), LL.D. (hon. Bishop’s University), C. M. Q. C., of the Quebec Bar, the Northwest Territories Bar, and the Alberta Bar.

    The Honourable Fred Kaufman is a distinguished figure in Canadian law. In 1992, Mr. Kaufman was appointed Member of the Order of Canada. He is a special Fellow of the Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Royal Society of Canada and an Honorary Life Member of the Canadian Judges Conference. Mr. Kaufman was… Read more »

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  • Osgoode Society Legal History Workshop

    Osgoode Society Legal History Workshops 2011-2023 OSGOODE SOCIETY LEGAL HISTORY WORKSHOP IN WINTER/SPRING 2024: Wednesday, February 7 – Carolyn Strange, Australian National University: ‘Divided Decisions: R. v. Fitton (1956) in Appeal.’ Wednesday, February 14 – Dan Rueck, University of Ottawa: ‘The King v. Bonhomme, Supreme Court of Canada, 1918: The role of the Department of Indian Affairs in… Read more »

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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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  • Hunger, Horses, and Government Men: Criminal Law on the Aboriginal Plains, 1870-1905

    2012

    by Shelley Gavigan, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School. Published with the University of British Columbia Press, 2012. Shortly after Confederation Canada acquired the territories formerly owned and administered by the Hudson’s Bay Company. Among the formidable challenges brought by this massive land acquisition, the most notable was the task of reconciling the aboriginal peoples of… Read more »

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  • Viscount Haldane: "The Wicked Stepfather of the Canadian Constitution"

    2010

    by Frederick Vaughan, Professor Emeritus, University of Guelph. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 2010. Lord Haldane is well-known to historians of Canadian constitutional law as one of the Privy Council judges most responsible for re-shaping the division of powers in the direction of greater provincial power after World War One. This deeply-researched biography Fred… Read more »

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    This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from Osgoode Society (the “Site”). Personal information we collect When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of… Read more »

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  • Terms and Conditions

    OVERVIEW This website is operated by the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. Throughout the site, the terms “we”, “us” and “our” refer to the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. The Osgoode Society offers this website, including all information, tools and services available from this site to you, the user, conditioned upon your acceptance… Read more »

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  • Constance Backhouse

    B.A. (Manitoba), LL.B. (Osgoode Hall), LL.M. (Harvard), LL.D. (hon. Law Society of Upper Canada), LL.D. (hon. University of Manitoba), F.R.S.C., C.M., O. Ont., of the Ontario Bar.

    Professor Backhouse is the Distinguished Professor, University Research Chair in the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, and Director of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre at the University of Ottawa. She researches and teaches in the areas of criminal law, human rights, legal history, and women and the law. Professor Backhouse was President… Read more »

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  • G. Blaine Baker

    B.A. (Huron College), LL.B. (Western Ontario), LL.M. (Columbia)

    G. Blaine Baker was a Professor Emeritus at McGill University before his untimely death in 2018. Prior to joining McGill in 1981 he was a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. During his time at McGill he served as Associate Dean (Academic) from 1999 to 2001 and Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) from… Read more »