Jean Teillet will speak about her career in a question and answer session, which will also involve a discussion of the importance to her work of legal history. Jean has been litigator in the areas of Indigenous rights, including Métis rights, and in reproductive health law. Jean holds LL.B. and LL.M. degrees from the University… 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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Prairie Justice: The Hanging of Mike Hack
Wayne Sumner, Prairie Justice: The Hanging of Mike Hack, published by the University of Toronto Press. Wayne Sumner is Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. This is a deeply-researched case study of a capital murder case from Saskatchewan in the 1920s. Although Mike Hack was deaf, and although his case was not famous, and it… Read more »
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Indigenous Rights Litigator Jean Teillet
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The Law Makers: Judicial Power and the Shaping of Canadian Federalism
by John T. Saywell, Emeritus Professor of History, York University. Published with University of Toronto Press, 2002. For those who believe that the history of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council’s decisions on the Canadian constitution is an oft-told story, this book will be a revelation indeed. One of Canada’s outstanding scholars, Professor Saywell draws… Read more »
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Canadian State Trials Volume II: Rebellion and Invasion in the Canadas, 1837-1839
edited by F. Murray Greenwood, Emeritus Professor of History, University of British Columbia and Barry Wright, Professor, Department of Law, Carleton University. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 2002. This second volume of the Canadian State Trials series focuses on the largest state security crisis in 19th century Canada: the rebellions of 1837-1838 and associated… Read more »
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Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume V: Crime and Criminal Justice
Edited by Jim Phillips, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Tina Loo, Professor, Department of History, University of British Columbia, and Susan Lewthwaite, independent scholar. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 1994. This fifth volume in the Osgoode Society’s distinguished essay series on the history of Canadian law turns to the important issues of crime and… Read more »
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Fred Landon Award
The best book on regional history in Ontario in the previous three years.
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J.J. Talman Award
The best book on any aspect of Ontario history in the previous three years.
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Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume I
Edited by David H. Flaherty. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 1981. This volume, containing ten essays, was the first of two designed to illustrate the wide possibilities for research and writing in Canadian legal history and reflecting the current interests of those working in that area. Topics covered include historical aspects of company… Read more »
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A History of Law in Canada Volume 1: Beginnings to 1866
By Philip Girard, Jim Phillips, and Blake Brown. Published by the University of Toronto Press. This book, the first of 2 volumes, presents the history of law in what is now Canada, from the first European contacts with northern North America in the very early sixteenth century to immediately before Confederation. Divided into four parts,… Read more »
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