The Osgoode Society congratulates long-serving Board member Justice Michael Tulloch on his appointment as Chief Justice of Ontario. This is a much-deserved honour and we know that Michael will be a great leader of the Ontario judiciary.
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David H. Flaherty
Between 1965 and 1999 David Flaherty taught at Princeton University, the University of Virginia, and, principally, the University of Western Ontario where he taught law and history. While at the University of Western Ontario (1972-1999), he was the first director of the Centre for American Studies. He is now a Professor Emeritus. David Flaherty has… Read more »
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December 20, 2022 - Chief Justice Tulloch
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Ian Bushnell
Ian Bushnell is a legal scholar and was a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Windsor. His book, The Captive Court: A Study of the Supreme Court of Canada, was a finalist for the 1995 Foundation for Legal Research Walter Owen Book Prize.
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January 15, 2024 - In Memoriam – Fred Kaufman
Fred Kaufman, a retired Judge of the Quebec Court of Appeal, passed away in early January. Fred’s remarkable life, from fleeing Austria as a refugee from the Nazis to time in an interment camp in New Brunswick as an ‘enemy alien’ , to law school, law practice and the Court of Appeal is chronicled in… Read more »
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Colin Campbell
Colin Campbell began his teaching career at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick as assistant professor of political science before taking his law degree at Western. Following his call to the bar, he practised as a tax partner in the Toronto firm Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP. His practice included tax planning for… Read more »
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Truth and Privilege: Libel Law in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, 1820-1840
By Professor Lyndsay Campbell of the University of Calgary. Published by Cambridge University Press, and a joint publication in the Osgoode Society Series and the American Society for Legal History’ Studies in Legal History Series. Truth and Privilege is a comparative study of the interplay among legal and constitutional traditions, political and religious controversy, publishing practices,… Read more »
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Petty Justice: Low Law and the Sessions System in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, 1785-1867
by Paul Craven, Professor, Social Science Division, York University, published by the University of Toronto Press, 2014. Local administration and law enforcement in pre-Confederation Canada was largely done through a coterie of appointed officials, most notably the justices of the peace, but also including constables, parish officers, overseers of the poor, and the like. Justices… Read more »
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Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume X: A Tribute to Peter N. Oliver
edited by Jim Phillips, Professor of Law, University of Toronto, R.Roy McMurtry, President of the Osgoode Society, and John Saywell, Professor of History Emeritus, York University. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 2008. This collection of Canadian legal history essays honours Professor Peter Oliver, who led the Osgoode Society as editor-in-chief from its establishment… Read more »
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Jim Phillips
Jim Phillips is Professor of Law, History and Criminology at the University of Toronto, and editor-in-chief of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. He was law clerk to Madame Justice Bertha Wilson of the Supreme Court of Canada (1987-1988) before joining the University of Toronto. He has published numerous articles on British imperial history… Read more »
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Marion MacRae
Marion MacRae was a leading architectural and design historian known particularly for series of books on the history of architecture in Ontario written in collaboration with Anthony Adamson: The Ancestral Roof, Hallowed Walls, and Cornerstones Of Order. For her work on these books Ms. MacRae was awarded a Governor General’s Literary Award (1975), a Lieutenant… Read more »
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