Given annually by the Champlain Society for writing on Ontario history.
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Floyd Chalmers Award
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October 18, 2022 - In Memoriam – David Flaherty
Professor Emeritus David Flaherty passed away on October 11, 2022, in Victoria. In the 1970s and 1980s David was a Professor of Law and History at what was then the University of Western Ontario. Although principally an Americanist, he was an ideal choice to organize and edit the Osgoode Society’s first major forays into serious… Read more »
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Women’s Fight for Legal Personhood: The Persons Case in Historical Perspective
The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History invites you to our inaugural student event — ‘Women’s Fight for Legal Personhood: The Persons Case in Historical Perspective’. Professor Jim Phillips will moderate a panel discussion between The Honourable Robert J. Sharpe, Professor Patricia McMahon, and Professor Sonia Lawrence examining the history and modern implications of the Persons… Read more »
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Prof. Jim Phillips
Jim Phillips is Professor of Law and History at the University of Toronto, and Editor-in-Chief of the Osgoode Society. He will speak about the book he is currently writing, a socio-legal history of women’s status, marriage breakdown, civil litigation and parliamentary divorce in Ontario in the 1870s. Currently tentatively scheduled for Wednesday February 28th. REGISTER HERE… Read more »
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Ian Radforth
Ian Radforth is professor emeritus in the Department of History, University of Toronto, where he taught Canadian history for thirty years. He is the author of two books published since his retirement: Jeannie’s Demise: Abortion on Trial in Victorian Toronto and Expressive Acts: Celebrations and Demonstrations in the Streets of Victorian Toronto. He is currently writing a… Read more »
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Directors and Officers
Directors & Officers Directors Professor Constance Backhouse, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law Professor Heidi Bohaker, University of Toronto, Department of History Brendan Brammell, Chernos Flaherty Svonkin LLP Bevan Brooksbank, Borden Ladner Gervais Shantona Chaudhury, Pape Chaudhury LLP Paul Davis, Paliare Roland Rosenberg Rothstein Doug Downey, ex officio, Attorney General for Ontario Timothy Hill, Assistant… Read more »
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September 5, 2018 - Recent Article and Review of Claire L’Heureux-Dube: A Life by Constance Backhouse
Please see the recent article and review of Claire L’Heureux-Dube: A Life which appeared in the Globe and Mail on Monday. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-retired-supreme-court-justice-claire-lheureux-dubes-biography/
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William George Morrow
William George Morrow, LL.B. (Alberta, 1939), practised law in Edmonton for some 20 years before he first travelled to the North West territories to act as volunteer defence counsel in 1960. In 1966 he was appointed a judge of the Territorial Court of the Northwest Territories, and over the next decade travelled some 50,000 kilometres… Read more »
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Kent Roach
Kent Roach is a Professor of Law, Criminology, and Political Science at the University of Toronto, and the Prichard-Wilson Chair of Law and Public Policy. He was law clerk to Madame Justice Bertha Wilson of the Supreme Court of Canada (1988-1989) before joining the University of Toronto. He has published numerous articles on the current… Read more »
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Ian Binnie
Ian Binnie on Wednesday, May 1st . Former Supreme Court of Canada judge Ian Binnie will talk to the Osgoode Society about four prominent litigators whose careers Canadian legal history from Confederation to the present: Oliver Mowat, W.N. Tilley, J.J. Robinette, and Ian Scott. REGISTER HERE FOR ZOOM LOGIN INFORMATION.
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